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Voices & Viewpoints: Fridays at 1 & 6 p.m. - only on 88.5 WFDD
podcast podcast
 

host Denise Franklin
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 .
Friday, March 28, 2008

David McHugh skillfully composed music for some of Hollywood's top movies. He recently scored the Hallmark movie, 'Love is a Four Letter Word' which will run internationally for seven years. He also just submitted a ballad to award winning singer Whitney Houston for her consideration. And he serves on the advisory board for a global entertainment coompany based in the country of Jordan. David was the first feature guest on Voices & Viewpoints when the program premiered in April 2002..

Friday, March 21, 2008


Dale Girard
He’s paid to fight and to make others fight. Dale Girard travels nationally training actors in the art of stage fighting for screen and stage. He says the key to choreographing a successful fight scene is to emphasize the actor's strengths and make the audience fear for the character. Now Dale's talents are putting him in the spotlight - especially in the opera world. He just returned from the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C., staging the fight scenes for Shakespeare's Macetth. Last year, he worked at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City, staging the fight scenes for the opera Romero and Juliet.

Dale is also at the North Carolina School of the Arts where he wears two hats - as the Director of Stage Combat Studies for the School of Drama and as the Stunt Safety Consultant for the School of Film.

Dale also works on independent films coordinating stunts and fights. His work can be seen in June Bug, Fall Down Dead, starring David Carradean, and The Key Man, starring Hugo Weaving. He's even appeared in a few movies. You can see Dale in full make-up and action in Eyeborgs coming out nationally in September 2008.

Dale is one of only 14 Fight Masters in the country and he's the youngest. Learn more about the craft of stage and stunt fighting at the Society of American Fight Directors and the North Carolina Stuntman's Association. Dale lives in Kernersville with his wife Janine Hawley, an internationally recognized mezzo-soprano, and their two sons.

Plus, an unexpected detour lands our commentator Diana Greene in a peculiar off-beat place.
Friday, March 14, 2008


James Huff
James Huff's passion to be a professional visual artist led him to cross paths with some of the rich and famous. Now his work is shown nationally, is featured in national publications, and is in many private collections. You can spot them in countries that include Germany, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Keyna, India, Holland, England, and Canada, as well as Central and South American countries.

Today, he's fueling other artists' passion by creating a new venue to display their work. Along with partner Tahnya Spirit, Huff owns The North Carolina Artists Market (239 W. Fifth St.), a new art gallery in downtown Winston-Salem. It features about a dozen artists from across the state who work in all all mediums, with an emphesis on W-S artists. It's open Monday-Friday 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. and Saturday Noon-3 p.m. They're currently recruiting visual artists to portray area leaders. For more information, contact Tahnya Spirit at 336-692-8049 (cell).

Plus, our media critic Mary Dalton admires the ever-changing symbiotic marriage of the media and pop culture.
Friday, March 7, 2008


Rebecca Nash
Rebecca Nash combines her family's heritage of high fashion sense and sales know-how to create handbags that have national appeal.



She's founder and president of C'est Bella, Inc. (www.madiedeluxe.com) based in High Point and the line of bags is called Madie Deluxe, named after her cat, Madeline. The bags are made of unique fabrics and are sold in boutiques nationwide. Rebecca has customers across the country, in the Bahamas and Canada purchasing her items.



In our Health & Medicine Report, Dr. Donald Heck describes the CREST Study, a national study looking for the safest way to prevent repeat strokes. Dr. Heck is a neurointerventional radiologist with Forsyth Radiological Associates. To join the CREST study, call Debra Wilson at 336-718-6045.



And our literary critic Dudley Shearburn reviews Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
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