Podcasts
Podcasts
Thursday, December 8, 202212/08/2022
A bad month for Trump
In Bill Newman
12/8: Crime and Punishment with attorney John Pucci—on the travails of Trump. Thirty Poems in 30 Days with Laurie Millman, Director of the Center for New Americans, Sarah Sullivan, Marty Wohl, and Adriana Lyra-Brazao. What local writers and poets, young and not so young, have written and will share next week is amazing.
Wednesday, December 7, 202212/07/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 12.7.22 – A Tribute to WRSI’s Monte Belmonte & Professor Stephen Platt discusses the protests in China
Buz, Joan, and Dan pay tribute to the WRSI legend Monte Belmonte. Stephen R. Platt, Professor of History at UMass to discuss protests in China.
Wednesday, December 7, 202212/07/2022
Is there any hope on the horizon between Russia & Ukraine?
In Bill Newman
12/7: Cool Films with Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott—with two strong recommendations on films you want to see. Natalia Munoz on Monte.
Tuesday, December 6, 202212/06/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 12.6.22 – The Interesting Thing w Tom McCrumm about a Peruvian avalanche & Mike Haley of Conway about his Christmas Carol radio show
Content Warning: The Interesting Thing with Nan Parati talking with Tom McCrumm about a Peruvian avalanche that took the lives of his two fellow skiers, and about how it helped him find his inner strength. Playbill with Jackie Walsh and Mike Haley of Conway to talk about his Christmas Carol radio show.
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!
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
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
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.
