Due South

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“Due South” is WUNC News’ weekday current affairs radio program and podcast. Broadcast from the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham, co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii put life in the Triangle region into perspective and present a unique sense of place.   From interviews with state lawmakers and local luminaries to Friday news roundups with statewide journalists, “Due South” puts current events into context and offers audiences a greater sense of connection. Each hour-long show sparks deeper conversation and understanding of life in and beyond the Triangle.

  1. 6 HR AGO

    ‘Hyperscale, Hyperspeed,’ new series on data center boom. Plus, NC’s latest transportation news

    0:01:00 ‘Hyperscale, Hyperspeed,’ a new reported series on the data center boom in North CarolinaData centers are popping up across North Carolina. As some communities welcome them and others consider moratoriums, journalists from BPR, the NC Newsroom, WFAE, and WUNC News explore the data center boom and its impact on our state. Due South talks with three reporters who worked on the collaborative reporting project “Hyperscale, Hyperspeed: Inside the Data Center Boom Reshaping NC Communities.” Katie Myers, reports on climate in Appalachia for Blue Ridge Public Radio and Grist Adam Wagner, Editor and Reporter, NC Newsroom Zachary Turner, Climate Reporter, WFAE 0:33:00 NC’s latest transportation news with Richard StradlingOne of the state’s foremost transportation reporters has the latest on western North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene recovery, updates to potential train and rail projects, and the possible impact an extended blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would have on gas prices here. Richard Stradling, Transportation Reporter, The News & Observer Related: Read Richard Stradling's articles about federal support for Triangle transit agencies and RDU expansion.

    50 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    NC's prisons dire funding shortage. Kerwin Pittman on buying a former prison. The 2026 Full Frame Documentary Festival.

    0:01:00 North Carolina’s prisons face a crisis of staffing and funding North Carolina’s 55 prisons are operating at minimum staffing, in a steep funding deficit. The state’s Department of Adult Correction is in need of an updated budget that accounts for the growing and aging prison population. WUNC News’ Colin Campbell updates Due South on the current state of the carceral system. Colin Campbell, Capital Bureau Chief, WUNC News 0:13:00 Former inmate and recidivism reduction activist Kerwin Pittman’s journey to success  Kerwin Pittman spent more than 11 years in the North Carolina prison system. With the support of family, he was able to navigate the re-entry process upon his release, becoming a recidivism reduction activist in the process. Eight years after his release, Pittman has become the first formerly incarcerated person in the United States to purchase a prison campus. Kerwin Pittman, founder of Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services, Inc. 0:33:00 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival takes off Due South speaks with the Co-Festival Director of Full Frame on the legacy of the festival, along with the Southern and North Carolina film selections screening during this year’s fest. Sadie Tillery, Co-Festival Director and Artistic Director, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

    50 min

  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    Former federal judge speaks out about separation of powers concerns. And, what constitutes a constitutional crisis?

    We’re all too familiar with the phrases by now: “constitutional crisis,” “slide toward authoritarianism” and “erosion of the rule of law.” Today, Due South delves into what those words really mean — and what’s at stake for our nation — with two local legal experts. Our conversation begins with the Honorable Allyson K. Duncan. When Judge Duncan was a child growing up in Durham, she spent afternoons after school at North Carolina Central University's law library, where her mother worked. While Duncan watched future lawyers study, a seed was planted that grew into a career of firsts, including being the first African American woman to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Now retired from the federal bench, she talks with co-host Jeff Tiberii about challenges she sees today to the separation of powers and the rule of law. Then, a conversation with constitutional law professor Marcus Gadson about his book, ‘Sedition: How America’s Constitutional Order Emerged From Violent Crisis’, and what constitutes a constitutional crisis. Guests Allyson K. Duncan, retired federal judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; member, Keep Our Republic’s Article III Coalition Marcus Gadson, Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Law School

    50 min

  4. 3 DAYS AGO

    Durham’s Oscar Diaz sizzles on ‘Top Chef.’ Plus, the secret college basketball game that challenged Jim Crow.

    0:01:00 A look at the inner lives of North Carolina’s political wivesThe 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 0:13:00 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. 0:33:00 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

    50 min

  5. 6 DAYS AGO

    NC News Roundup: NC native returns from moon; investigation into Wake County schools' transportation

    The state says Wake County Public Schools didn’t provide adequate transportation for students with disabilities after a WUNC News investigation, an N.C. State graduate circles the moon, and UNC-Chapel Hill hires a new basketball coach.  Due South host Jeff Tiberii and a panel of local journalists provide context and analysis from those and other stories from the week. Bryan Anderson, Reporter, The Assembly and the Anderson Alerts newsletter Zachery Eanes, Reporter, Axios Raleigh Liz Schlemmer, Education Reporter, WUNC News Adam Wagner, Reporter/Editor covering state politics for the North Carolina Newsroom

    50 min

  6. 9 APR

    On Local News Day, a Due South conversation about local media outlook across North Carolina

    From layoffs to AI to social media, the ever-changing news landscape impacts both journalism organizations and consumers.  On Local News Day, co-host Jeff Tiberii talks with North Carolina news industry experts about the past, present and future of local media in our state.  Marisa Porto, Director of the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media and Knight Chair, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, UNC-Chapel Hill Shannan Bowen, Founder & CEO, NC Local Glenn Burkins, Founder and Publisher, QCity Metro Josh Bergeron, Government Editor, The Charlotte Observer Paul Hunton, President and General Manager, WUNC News

    50 min

  7. 8 APR

    Price hikes at Duke Energy spark pushback. Plus, 'Well, I Declare' and 'Steel Magnolias'

    0:01:00 Price hikes expected at Duke EnergyDisconnections are up, and rates are on a steady incline at Duke Energy. As customers bear the rising cost of heating, cooling and power across the state, the NC Utility Commission holds public hearings to field questions and concerns. Zachary Turner, climate reporter, WFAE 0:13:00 Well, I Declare celebrates 'America at 250,' North Carolina styleA new production reimagines the Declaration of Independence, as part of a nationwide series of 'America at 250' celebrations. Dawn Landes, singer, songwriter and Mike Wiley, playwright, actor, assistant professor of Research and Arts, Ethics and Education at Duke University. 0:33:00 PlayMakers marks final show of the 2025-26 season with ‘Steel Magnolias’ A beloved classic drama about family, sisterhood, joy and grief makes its way to PlayMakers Repertory Company. Leoneda Inge talks to the stars of 'Steel Magnolias.' Thursday Farrar, guest actor, Broadway performer  Julia Gibson, resident company actor with PlayMakers for 13 seasons and head of the Professional Actor Training Program at UNC-Chapel Hill

    50 min

  8. 7 APR

    Uncovering the impacts of abortion bans - including the preventable death of a NC woman who died waiting for an abortion

    0:01:00 Duke Gardens is about to open. Here’s what visitors should know.A new entrance to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens is finished. The day before reopening, Due South’s Leoneda Inge speaks with the head of the Gardens to talk about how to visit, and what you can expect now that the project is complete. Bill LeFevre, Executive Director of Sarah P. Duke Gardens 0:13:00 North Carolina woman Ciji Graham died while waiting for an abortionGraham, a Greensboro police officer, had heart problems, and in the past her chronic condition had been treated by cardioversion. But a doctor didn’t offer the treatment because of a positive pregnancy test.  ProPublica is investigating Graham’s, and other women’s, deaths related to tightening abortion laws following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.  Lizzie Presser, covers health and social policy at ProPublica where she won the 2025 Pulitzer for public service along with several reporters who covered deaths related to abortion laws. The article discussed in this segment is titled, "A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion." 0:33:00 Checking in on Duke’s oral history project from health care workers in a post-Roe AmericaHow the health care landscape has changed in the two years since Leoneda Inge first spoke with Dr. Beverly Gray about the end of the legal right to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Dr. Beverly Gray, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University Medical Center, one of the leaders of the Abortion Care Today oral history project, and the co-host of a podcast about abortion access called Outlawed.

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“Due South” is WUNC News’ weekday current affairs radio program and podcast. Broadcast from the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham, co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii put life in the Triangle region into perspective and present a unique sense of place.   From interviews with state lawmakers and local luminaries to Friday news roundups with statewide journalists, “Due South” puts current events into context and offers audiences a greater sense of connection. Each hour-long show sparks deeper conversation and understanding of life in and beyond the Triangle.

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  • Channel
    WUNC
  • Creator
    Jeff Tiberii, Leoneda Inge
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    643
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Due South

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