Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Tuesday, September 10, 201909/10/2019

Sembene! @ The Ashfield Film Festival

In Bill Newman

9.10.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with the folks from the Ashfield Film Festival about an exciting movie coming to town

Monday, September 9, 201909/09/2019

Like A Motherless Child

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9.9.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks parenting with best-selling author Kim John Payne. Plus a new Leonard Basking “Resistance” retrospective and the Michaelson Gallery in Northampton. And Black in The Valley with Prof. Carlie C. Tartakov & Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks to discuss the artistic response to the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship on the shores of this continent with Dr. Ruth Bass Green & Ingrid Askew.

Friday, September 6, 201909/06/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 9.7.19

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The panel, Kristen Elechko and Nathaniel Waring on how the state of the world is truly saddening.

Friday, September 6, 201909/06/2019

Are We Accidentally Growing Poop Aliens on The International Space Station?

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9.6.19 Dr. Salman Hameed guest hosts and talks the latest with Hampshire College’s tiny incoming class. Plus the even TINIER microorganisms that we may be inadvertently growing out of human gross on the ISS. And Art Beat with Donabelle on the new photo exhibit at 33 Hawley.

Thursday, September 5, 201909/05/2019

PhD(ebt)

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9.5.19 Max Page guest hosts and talks with Caitlin Zaloom about her new book Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. Plus the Reverend and The Rabbi on Trump’s dogwhistle anti-semitism

Wednesday, September 4, 201909/04/2019

Go UMax

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9.4.19 Max Page, VP of the Mass Teacher’s Association, guest hosts and talks to his President, Merrie Najimy about recess, high-stakes testing and all things education.

Tuesday, September 3, 201909/03/2019

Growing Kids On The Farm

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9.3.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Ben Murray, farm director at Red Gate Farm about on-the-farm education. Plus discussing end of life issues with Dr. Lewis M. Cohen from UMass Medical Center author of “A Dignified Ending”. And Dr. Diana Alvarez on the upcoming songwriter’s workshop.

Saturday, August 31, 201908/31/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.31.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

The panel, Nathaniel Waring and Dan Torres, on recalibrating capitalism and the dwindling field of Democratic Party presidential candidates.

Friday, August 30, 201908/30/2019

Artificial Intelligence: Not Just A Reflection of The Hosts

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8.30.19 Josh Silver from Represent.Us guest hosts with Monte and talks AI, the need for recess in schools and on what’s happening in The Valley this weekend.

Friday, August 30, 201908/30/2019

Jo Says Farewell To Francis

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