Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Thursday, March 14, 201903/14/2019

Booty Kiss?

In Bill Newman

3/14 (Pi day): Burikes (not Booty Kiss) live!! and in studio, together with us and Eveline MacDougall!! Plus Sally Roesch Wagner on “The Women’s Suffrage Movement;” also the return –and a preview — of The Mammals; plus “The Reverend (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David).

Tuesday, March 12, 201903/12/2019

A Century of Francis Crowe

In Bill Newman

Monday, March 11, 201903/11/2019

(IN)Dependent

In Bill Newman

3/11: “(In)dependent: The Heroin Project” (opening soon in Northampton) with Emily Curro from the Academy of Music, Linda McInerney, Director, playwrights Emilia Sherin and Zack Manthey.

Saturday, March 9, 201903/09/2019

Western Mass Business Show 3.9.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Hear George O’Brien, editor of BusinessWest magazine, speak with Dr. YVES SALOMON-FERNANDEZ, president of Greenfield Community College. Hear her thoughts on a changing landscape in higher education today, marked by smaller high school graduating classes, rising pricetags for a college education, and a persistent skills gap within the workforce and a need for community colleges to help close that gap. Also hear about how the community college mission is carried out in rural Franklin County, where GCC is only institution of higher learning.

Saturday, March 9, 201903/09/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.9.19

In Bill Newman

Friday, March 8, 201903/08/2019

Grease Is The Word

In Bill Newman

3/8: LIVE in the studio, a preview of the upcoming NHS production of GREASE! Then, long-time western Mass. social activist Paki Wieland, just back from her 10 days trip to Iran, part of the Code Pink delegation;
MTA Veep Max Page on the proposal for an on-line UMass University; Art Beat with (ssshhhhhhh!! also the new art show of) Donnabelle Casis (at Smith College).

Thursday, March 7, 201903/07/2019

Code Pink!

In Bill Newman

Wednesday, March 6, 201903/06/2019

Them Bones

In Bill Newman

3/6: “Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone” – we speak with the author, Brian Switek (guess what we want to talk about first!); The Western Mass. Drug Lab Scandal and the mass Mass. exoneration—we speak with Matt Segal, Legal Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts; plus Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz (who shares her thoughts about Bernie).

Tuesday, March 5, 201903/05/2019

Is The U.S. Plotting a Coup in Venezuela?

In Bill Newman

3/5: Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Northampton-based Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of 15 books, on the crisis in Venezuela and the United States’ role; appellate attorneys Molly Ryan Strehorn (of Amherst) and Barb Munro (from Holyoke) on their trip to the South, Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative (“EJI”), and their “Appealing Women’s” confab (complete with fab music, food, adult beverages, and an auction) this weekend at the Deuce– a fundraiser for the EJI; and “Sex Matters” with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, who chats with Monte and Bill about marijuana and sex.

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