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Denise Franklin
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Every week, Voices & Viewpoints brings you conversations with people who have won national or international recognition - and call the Triad home.
The Health & Medicine Report keeps you up-to-date on cutting-edge research.
And you'll hear the viewpoints of our commentators on movies, books, life, and more.
Voices & Viewpoints is a half hour of radio
you won't hear anywhere else! |
Host: Denise Franklin
Producer: Kathryn Mobley |
Compact discs of Voices & Viewpoints may be purchased from 88.5 WFDD.
For more information, call 336-758-8850 or e-mail Julie Patrick at jpatrick@wfu.edu . |
This Piedmont man is one of a few African Americans who owns a film studio - and his is one of the largest - putting him in the company of multi-millionaire Oprah Winfrey and actor Tim Reed. Faiger Blackwell operates Carolina Pinnacle Studios in Caswell County.
It’s long been plagued by financial woes and last summer Blackwell almost lost it in auction. But a $1 million gift from a private investor is giving him a new chance to turn the studio around.
Now—Blackwell’s hired a new TV & film director and wrapped up last year by producing two independent films. Plus, he’s is talking with members of the Israeli Film Commission about collaborating on some projects.
Blackwell admits, owning Carolina Pinnacle Studios is teaching him the true meanings of sacrifice and trusting in a higher power. All the while … he's driven by one simple motto: No film is too large or too small to be produced.
The studio's website is www.carolinapinnaclestudios.com.
Plus, one picture spoke a thousand words to our commentator Diana Greene -launching her on a journey of patience. |
 Susan Feit
In the mid 80's, Susan Feit became fluent in Hebrew and earned a masters degree in public policy from Tel Aviv University focusing on Jewish Arab relations. She also worked with a grass roots organization giving voice to people who were marginalize. A few years later, she married and had children.
They later moved to the Triad, where she flew between the United States and Israel working with non-profit groups to promote healthy relationships between Jews and Arabs.
Now Susan is the executive director of the National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont (formerly known as the National Council of Christians and Jews). And she’s currently organizing mission trips to Israel for 2009.
Plus, our media critic Mary Dalton reviews the unique voice of three different films.
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With steady hands, precise turns and lots of speed, one Winston-Salem grandmother rides in the top ranks of national barrel racing champions.
65-year-old Nancy Clark competes against riders from all over the world in Barrel Racing. She's won countless awards, cash and other prizes for zipping around three barrels at break neck speeds. But she gives all credit to her partner, 16-year-old Peppy. He's a quarter horse. Next week, they'll compete in the Fortune Five Barrel Race in Jacksonville, FL. And this fall, they'll ride for top prize in an international competition in Augusta, GA.
In our Health & Medicine Report: one area researcher unlocks the life-saving power of peanuts. North Carolina A&T State University associate professor and food chemist Mohamed Ahmedna leads research teams in the Triad and Senegal, Africa dedicated to creating high protein peanut based products and making safer peanut production methods.
The team just designed a peanut based powdered infant formula as a high protein food for malnourished babies.
And our literary critic Dudley Shearburn reviews the war classic Slaughterhouse-Five by the late Kurt Vonnegut. |
 Kendall Johnson
Plus, too busy last year to check out some flicks? Our media critic Mary Dalton is about to review her top ten favorite movies of 2007. | | |
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