Podcasts

Podcasts
Tuesday, August 3, 202108/03/2021
Cherry Tree v City of Northampton
In Bill Newman
8/3: No cherry-picking facts! “Crime and Punishment” with Attorney John who discusses the law, the injunction and the cherry trees on Warfield Place — and their demise.
Then, Northampton-based singer-songwriter and cardiologist Johnny Joelson pulls at our heart strings with his new album of original work “No Turning Back.”
Monday, August 2, 202108/02/2021
Biomassachusetts
In Bill Newman
8/2: State Senator Jo Comerford on voting rights, biomass in western Mass, prison construction, light pollution and stars: Jeremy Lent, author of “The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe.”
Saturday, July 31, 202107/31/2021
Take The Blue Door
In The Western Mass. Business Show
7.31.21 Tara Brewster talks with Laura Bowman from Blue Door Gatherings in Holyoke
Saturday, July 31, 202107/31/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 7.31.21
This week we are joined by our regulars Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, and Nathaniel Waring, and we discuss Biden’s recent announcement about federal workers and vaccines; whether we are wearing masks, and why; the Olympics, and how the pandemic has affected the athletes; Simone Biles, and what her choice to sit out of the team event means for gymnastics and humanity alike; a spy program out of Israel, and whether we should be more afraid of spying, or identify theft online; how algorithms predict our online behavior, and what we can do to try and avoid them; the January 6th hearings, and what they have to do with white supremacy;and the life expectancy dropping, and what factors lead us here.
Friday, July 30, 202107/30/2021
Orders From The D.A.
In Bill Newman
7/30: We cover a lot of ground with Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington; then cover masks with Mass. Teachers Ass’n V.P. Max Page; and then, ArtBeat with
Amanda Herman, Cassandra Holden, and Michi Wiancko.
Thursday, July 29, 202107/29/2021
The Afternoon Buzz 7.28.21
Retired Recorder Managing Editor George Forcier and Retired Recorder Managing Editor and journalist Wesley Blixt discusses the role of local…
Thursday, July 29, 202107/29/2021
The Afternoon Buzz 7.27.21
Playwright Daniel Goldstein discussing his musical ROW, presented by the Williamstown Theater Festival on the campus of The Clark Museum.…
Thursday, July 29, 202107/29/2021
A multicultural educator before it was cool
In Bill Newman
7/29: Vaya con Munoz: Natalia leads our interview of Sonia Nieto, just-announced winner of the Massachusetts Humanities Governor’s Award; Tinky Weisblat, aka “The Diva of Delight,” on her upcoming performance, the final of this year’s Mohawk Trail Concerts, with Clifton Jerry Noble on piano –Saturday at 5:00 at the Charlemont Federated Church. Then, from the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, organizer Andrea Schmid and new Board Chair Diana Becera on immigration and imperialism.
Wednesday, July 28, 202107/28/2021
The Addiction To Trump
In Bill Newman
7/28: “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.” We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Carol Lennig about her new best-selling book, co-authored with her fellow Washington Post reporter– the White House Bureau Chief–Philip Rucker; then, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Jan Fleishman –a quiz for Bill, Monte, and Natalia.
Tuesday, July 27, 202107/27/2021
The Afternoon Buzz 7.26.21
Representative Natalie Blais of the 1st Franklin District. Take Five with Music Correspondent Bruce Niemczyk and pianist Stephen Page. https://soundcloud.com/whmp/the-afternoon-buzz-72621