Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Saturday, September 30, 201709/30/2017

Western Mass Business Show 9.30.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

9.30.17 Ira talks with Lori Brogle of Aquarium Pro discusses what goes into cleaning hundreds of tanks per month and the life and times of aquarium fish

Saturday, September 30, 201709/30/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 9.30.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Hurricane Corruption joined forces with Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. The manmade storm began in the 1990s, when US Attorney for Puerto Rico Guillermo Gil summarized the jaw-dropping theft of untold millions of public dollars by the Gov. Rosselló Administration this way: “Corruption has a name and it’s called the New Progressive Party.” The debt was compounded because of illegal multi-billion loans and spending on poorly concieved projects that resulted in the complete abandonment of the island’s infrastructure in order to pay back the loans with interest rates of 75 cents on the dollar. Gil sent many from the administration to prison, but the island’s health, education , publoc works and electrical grid was already in shambles.
Now Trump is going on Tuesday. Ay Dios mío. How many storms must Puerto Rico take?
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Whose Streets,” about the street responses to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO in 2014. Trailer here: whosestreets.com/
Matt Szafranski unpacks the primaries in Holyoke and Springfield, where the political landscape is changing.
Lillian Torres, la ponceña, y yo hablamos sobre María.
Bruce Springsteen sings us out with “Devils and Dust,” for all of the Caribbean.
Image of what Puerto Rican (aka Boricua) hope and humor looks like.

Friday, September 29, 201709/29/2017

Truth To Power

In Bill Newman

9/29: “Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons” with author Timmon Milne Wallis and anti-nuclear weapons activist Vicky Elson; political activist poets and authors Martin Espada and Doug Anderson
on speaking truth to power; curator Eva Fierst joins Betsy Stone.

Thursday, September 28, 201709/28/2017

Alumnae

In Bill Newman

9/28: Five College Alumnae of Color present; then, torture and heroism in Syria when the Valley Syrian Relief Committee joins The Reverend and the Rabbi.

Wednesday, September 27, 201709/27/2017

Northampton Goes Hollywood (Sort of)

In Bill Newman

9/ 27: The Northampton Film festival presents; Authors Mira Bartok, Jane Yolen, and Heidi Stemple on “The Wonderling;” Natalia Munoz on the crisis in Puerto Rico.

Monday, September 25, 201709/25/2017

Video Noho

In Bill Newman

9/25: Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight on police-proposed downtown surveillance cameras; beat poet and Human Error publisher Paul Richmond on the upcoming spoken word festival; then, live in the studio! singer-songwriter Pamela Means—a preview of her upcoming CLICK performance.

Saturday, September 23, 201709/23/2017

Western Mass Business Show 9.23.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with marketing expert Silvana Gravini

Saturday, September 23, 201709/23/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 9.23.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Trophy,” which may change how you think of hunters. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=GPPlH_yKgr4
Former State Rep. Ellen Story of Amherst talks national politics and why Hillary and Bernie should not be in limelight as much.
The ground-breaking women’s music 1975 album “The Changer and The Changed” is on the list of 150 greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present. The list was compiled by nearly 50 women from across NPR and the public radio system and produced in partnership with Lincoln Center. Also on the list, “Fanny Hill,” by the rock and roll band Fanny, co-founded by Goshen resident June Millington with her sister Jean. Today, we talk with Cris and how she’s changed and stayed the same.
More about this list here: npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women
We are sung out by Irma Thomas, “The River is Waiting.” Aleluya!

Friday, September 22, 201709/22/2017

A Klare and Present Danger

In Bill Newman

9/22: Professor Michael Klare, Director, Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, on the possibility of impending war; Pete Rogers, Vietnam Vet. and intelligence officer, on this weekend’s Vietnam talk back; Daniel Little, Director, Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum, on Inside/Out.

Thursday, September 21, 201709/21/2017

Rocket Man vs Madman Across The Water

In Bill Newman

9/21: Dr. Ira Helfand, Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, on North Korea and this weekend’s symposium on climate change and nuclear war; “Of Soil and Tongues” with artist le thi diem thuy at Hampshire College.

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