Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, August 28, 201908/28/2019

Remembering Francis Crowe

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8.28.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and reflects on the life and legacy of a Valley legend. Plus a preview of free klezmer music in Easthampton. And the author of See Jane Win.

Tuesday, August 27, 201908/27/2019

What’s So Funny?

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8.27.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Pam Victor, Kelsey Flynn and Scott Braidman from Happier Valley Comedy about what makes funny funny. Turns out, it’s minding your p’s and k’s.

Monday, August 26, 201908/26/2019

Feeling Sure About Hampshire

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8.26 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Hampshire College Professor and Search Committee member, Salman Hameed, about the new President and the new potential of the school. Plus Brian Burrell about his new book “How the Brain Lost its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness”

Monday, August 26, 201908/26/2019

8/19: Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

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Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

Saturday, August 24, 201908/24/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.24.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Friday, August 23, 201908/23/2019

Guns, diapers and the court house. Plus blowing glass!

In Bill Newman

8/23: Guns, diapers, and the Court House — with State Rep. Mindy Domb; college debt, the new school year, and charter schools — with Mass. Teachers Ass’n Veep, Max Page; glassblowing with ArtBeat host Donnabelle Casis and local glassblower Dan Battat.

Thursday, August 22, 201908/22/2019

Trump, antisemitism, sex and Sox

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8/22: Rabbi Justin David on Trump’s recent pronouncements and the rise in anti-Semitism; Dr. Allan H Ropper and UMass Amherst…

Thursday, August 22, 201908/22/2019

A look back at LookStock 2019

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A look back at last night’s LookStock with The River’s (and WHMP’s) Joan Holliday; teachers and their local and nationwide struggles with former MTA President (and former Northampton teacher) and now Labor Notes Educational Coordinator, Barbara Madeloni; Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Wednesday, August 21, 201908/21/2019

America was founded in 1619?

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8/20: The founding of America: Not July 4, 1776 but August 20, 1619. A commemoration on the 400th anniversary on “Black in the Valley” with segment hosts, Rev. Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov, and special guest Kent Alexander. Then, a complete change of pace: our month Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has’ Laura Patrick and Pam Victor and Quizmaster, Steven Ellis—Animal Kingdom comes to Hampton Ave in Northampton. Contestant Joan Holliday does ok. Pam is a star.

Monday, August 19, 201908/19/2019

Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

In Bill Newman

8/19: The crisis in Venezuela: previewing Tuesday evening’s presentation by Paki Wieland, who has just returned from Venezuela and meeting…

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