Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, September 15, 201709/15/2017
Your State U
In Bill Newman
9/14: UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy on DACA, college ratings, and money for public higher ed; then, “The Scarlet Professor” with director Ron Bashford and Bill Hite, who plays Newton Arvin.
Thursday, September 14, 201709/14/2017
Celebrating Citizenship
In Bill Newman
9/15: Mayor David Narkewicz and Center for New Americans Executive Director Laurie Millman on Citizenship Day (this weekend) in Northampton; then the Mayor on proposed surveillance cameras for Main street. Then, Smith professor Michael Thurston and author Jane Yolen, Smith College, class of 1960, share analysis and memories of Smith college’s firing two male professors because they were gay.
Tuesday, September 12, 201709/12/2017
Ken Burns On Vietnam
In Bill Newman
9/12: Filmmaker Ken Burns on “The Vietnam War;” author Barry Werth and professors Harley Erdman and Eric Sawyer on “The Scarlet Professor.”
Monday, September 11, 201709/11/2017
Hillywood
In Bill Newman
9/11: From the Ashfield Film Festival—Tamara Sloan, Christopher Seward, and Harry Keramidas. From the Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership—Rev. Andrea Ayvazian and Lilly Lombard. From the world of politics– Josh Silver, CEO of Represent Us.
Saturday, September 9, 201709/09/2017
Western Mass Business Show 9.9.17
In The Western Mass. Business Show
9/9 Ira talks with Nate Wolfson, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System, as described in the book Traction.
Friday, September 8, 201709/08/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 9.9.17
Having biases is a human condition. UMass Deputy Police Chief Ian Cyr trains police officers to recognize their own biases and make decisions that are not based on those pre-conceived notions.
Politicaly motivated heinous crimes against humanity were the daily bread in Guatemala not so long ago. In 1982, soldiers raped and murdered more than 200 people from a small village. Director Ryan Suffern goes on an investigative journey to uncover the massacre and the key is in “Finding Oscar.” Award winning filmmaker Larry Hott reviews the documentary. Trailer here:www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/movies/finding-oscar-review.html?referrer=google_kp
Notes on Hurricane Irma and how the Puerto Rico govenor is making a bigger deal of it than in was on the island in order to secure more federal aid. Rant on people who criticize Hillary for writing a book. OMG.
We end with the soundtrack from the 1964 movie “Zorba The Greek,” for my uncle Minás, another positive Greek like the one portrayed by in the movie by the Mexican Anthony Quinn. He predicted correctly that Hurricane Irma wasn’t going to be as destructive in Puerto Rico as it was elsewhere. Music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Image of “Finding Oscar.”
Friday, September 8, 201709/08/2017
China, Japan and Nuclear War
In Bill Newman
9/8: Richard McGregor, author of “Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of the U.S. Power in the Pacific Century;” Penny Burke, Executive Director of the Northampton Center for the Arts, on moving to a new home and chalking the sidewalks.
Thursday, September 7, 201709/07/2017
Perspectives From Inside Vietnam
In Bill Newman
9/7: Lady Borton, Vietnam peace activist, and Don Chevannes, Vietnam vet, panelists at upcoming showing of “The Vietnam War,” share their perspectives.
Wednesday, September 6, 201709/06/2017
When The War Comes Home
In Bill Newman
9/6: Marie Waechter, from public television for western New England — WGBY, previews Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” at the Academy of Music; and Jessie Jimison, a panelist following the film, discusses her father’s Vietnam war-induced PTSD. Then Heidi Nortonsmith, Executive Director of the Northampton Survival Center, Mary Hamel, co-owner of Glendale Ridge Vineyard, and Sheila Coon, founder of Hot Oven Cookies, preview the upcoming confab at the Vineyard.
