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A look at the inner lives of North Carolina’s political wives

The Assembly’s Billy Warden discusses his discoveries about the lives of North Carolina’s political spouses in a candid profile that includes interviews with First Lady Anna Stein and Susan Tillis, wife of Sen. Thom Tillis. (This Due South encore conversation originally aired March 24, 2026.)

Billy Warden, marketing specialist, writer, contributor to The Assembly

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The Broadside: ‘The Secret Game’

In March of 1944, two basketball teams in North Carolina played perhaps the most important game that nobody has ever heard of. It was the first unofficial interracial college basketball game in the Jim Crow South. And it remained a secret for half a century.

Scott Ellsworth, author of “The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph”

This episode of The Broadside was produced by Charlie Shelton-Ormond and edited by Jerad Walker.

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Durham’s Oscar Diaz sizzles on ‘Top Chef’

Chef Oscar Diaz is known around town for Little Bull, a Michelin-recommended restaurant in Durham. But around the country, he’s known as a “cheftestant” on the current season of ‘Top Chef’ – filmed in Charlotte, NC and Greenville, SC. Co-host Leoneda Inge talks to Diaz about how he spins the food of his childhood, his travels, and the Triangle into flavors that are both new and familiar.

Oscar Diaz, chef and owner, Little Bull and several other North Carolina restaurants