Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Thursday, April 4, 201904/04/2019

Save Hampshire!

In Bill Newman

4/4: Professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on the extant universe of Hampshire College; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David and George Lakey, whose most recent book is “How We Win: A Guide to Non-Violent Direct Action Campaigning.”

Wednesday, April 3, 201904/03/2019

Poets Laureate

In Bill Newman

4/3: Poets Laureate (erstwhile, still) Martin Espada and Rich Michelson; Vaya con (Natalia) Munoz.

Tuesday, April 2, 201904/02/2019

Jesus + Opera=Poetry

In Bill Newman

4/2: Poets Laureate (erstwhile) Rich Michelson and Patrick Donnelly; Johnny Memphis on “Penny’s from Heaven;” Max Klau, author of “Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, a Call to Action.”

Monday, April 1, 201904/01/2019

Jo Hill

In Bill Newman

4/1: Today’s show stars Senator Jo (Takes the (Beacon) Hill) Comerford; then, Black in the Valley with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Kent Alexander, Equity and Inclusion consultant for the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, on reparations.

Saturday, March 30, 201903/30/2019

Western Mass Business Show 3.30.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

On Saturday, March 30, 11am, and Sunday, March 31, 8pm hear Ira speak with LORA KSIENIEWICZ, owner of Yoga on the Vine (on Martha’s Vinyard) and now Yoga in the Valley (in Florence). A meditator since high school, she lived in an Indian monastery for several months, and opened her yoga studios, so that her students (and teachers she trains to high standards) become more adaptable and resilient, not because it makes life easy or wonderful. Yoga is for everyone, and athletes and aging adults are only 2 of her several specialties.

Saturday, March 30, 201903/30/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.30.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

A segment from RadioPlasma podcast hosted by Iohann Rashi Vega on Black Holyoke with guest Erika Slocumb. This and other bilingual podcasts by Iohann here: https://radioplasma.com/2019/02/19/erika-slocumb-black-holyoke/

A review of a few comments by former Senator and Vice President and Perennial Presidential Candidate and Creepy Gaffer Joe Biden.

The roundtable on politics with Kate Albright-Hanna and Nathaniel Waring.

Friday, March 29, 201903/29/2019

Why Do All White People Look The Same?

In Bill Newman

3/29: Jennifer Eberhardt, author of “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do;” Max Page, MTA VP on PROMISE and CHERISH; ArtBeat on Dimensionism with Donnabelle Casis and Dr. Vanja Malloy,
Curator of American Art at the Amherst College Mead Museum.

Thursday, March 28, 201903/28/2019

Talkin’ Baseball!

In Bill Newman

3/27: Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke (Duke Goldman); Clive Thompson, author of “Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World;” Rev. Peer Ives, Rabbi Justin david and Cooley-Dickinson Chaplain, Carole Bull.

Tuesday, March 26, 201903/26/2019

Meet Willie & Mulva!

In Bill Newman

3/26: “NPR: Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson and Dina Friedman; ‘Waiting for Godot” with the NHS actors and Director; Sex Toys
with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr Jane Fleishman.

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