Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Tuesday, December 6, 202212/06/2022

Are you ready for some football propaganda?

In Bill Newman

12/6: Sut Jhally, UMass. Professor of Communication Emeritus and founder and Director of the Media Education Foundation, on “Behind the (NFL) Shield, at the Amherst Cinema; the Sci-Tech Café with Mount Holyoke College Professor Physics Kerstin Nordstrom—we’re talking about beer!

Naia Tenerowicz

Monday, December 5, 202212/05/2022

The Afternoon Buzz 12.5.22 – Gary Levine and Naia Tenerowicz discuss Springfield natural gas pipeline project & songwriter Pete Nelson on Writer’s Block

In The Afternoon Buzz

Gary Levine and Naia Tenerowicz to discuss Springfield natural gas pipeline project. Writer’s Block with Megan Zinn with Writer and songwriter Pete Nelson discussing his musical A Love Story, based on two of his novellas, that singer Tracy Grammer is performing

Monday, December 5, 202212/05/2022

The Resilience Hub has a home

In Bill Newman

12/5: It’s Mayors Monday, and we speak with Northampton Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra about the new Resilience Hub. Also, sex trafficking and the World Cup — we speak with Professor Gregory Mitchell whose new book is “Panics without Border: How Global Supporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking;”

Saturday, December 3, 202212/03/2022

A garden of healing

In The Western Mass. Business Show

12.3.22 Tara Brewster talks with Shelly Bathe Lenn from The Garden: A Center for Grieving Children and Teens

Friday, December 2, 202212/02/2022

Afternoon Buzz 12.2.22 – Jen Dieringer of Community Legal Aid & Dr. Brian Cheng and Dr. Matthew Sasaki

In The Afternoon Buzz

Jen Dieringer of Community Legal Aid. Dr. Brian Cheng, Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation at UMass Amherst and Dr. Matthew Sasaki, Marine Biologist and Evolutionary Ecologist

Friday, December 2, 202212/02/2022

The return to The Moon

In Bill Newman

12/2: MTA President Max Page on higher ed funding; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on going back to the moon and international space stations; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Alexia Cota on the Angola (the maximum security prison) quilt project — now at the Augusta Savage Gallery.

NHS Students

Thursday, December 1, 202212/01/2022

Afternoon Buzz 12.1.22 – Springfield Science Museum Director Jenny Powers & Take Five with Ruth Griggs, UMass Prof and saxophonist Felipe Salles and pianist Paul Arslanian

In The Afternoon Buzz

Brian Adams with Springfield Science Museum Director Jenny Powers. Take Five with Ruth Griggs, UMass Prof and saxophonist Felipe Salles and pianist Paul Arslanian Northampton Jazz Fest Artists in the Schools program at JFK and NHS

Thursday, December 1, 202212/01/2022

A Rabbi in The West Bank

In Bill Newman

12/1: Corinne Demas on “The Perfect Tree;” Rabbi Justin David on his recent trip to the West Bank and the search for peace.

NANPARATI

Wednesday, November 30, 202211/30/2022

Afternoon Buzz 11.30.22 – Gerald Epstein, Professor of Economics at UMass & Nan Parati Shares Her Story

In The Afternoon Buzz

Gerald Epstein, Professor of Economics at UMass, to discuss PERI’s upcoming conference, Global Inflation Today: What is To Be Done? The Interesting Thing with Nan Parati talks about Coming Strong in Life, her personal journey to find her inner strength.

Wednesday, November 30, 202211/30/2022

Emily Dickenson and The Irish

In Bill Newman

11/30: Great craic! We preview “Margaret Maher and the Celtification of Emily Dickinson,” being performed this weekend at Hawks & Reed in Greenfield, with the playwright Rosie Caine. Them Beverly Cage on “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.” Read this book!

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