Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, April 28, 201704/28/2017
Young@Heart@35
In Bill Newman
4/27: The Young@Heart Chorus turns 35! Join the party with Bob Cilman, Ken Maiuri, Sylvia Johnson, Helen Boston, Teresa Lorenco and Beda Palanco; then, Reed Schimmelfing and Vicki Elson from Represent.Us on Western Massachusetts cities and towns leading in the fight against money corrupting our electoral politics.
Wednesday, April 26, 201704/26/2017
The Most Famous Poet In America
In Bill Newman
4/26: Poets Laureates Robert Pinsky and Rich Michelson; then “Life in the 413” —a preview with Sam Rush, Hillary Price, Meryl Cohn and Monte Belmonte.
Tuesday, April 25, 201704/25/2017
Senator Stan
In Bill Newman
4/25: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on The Safe Communities Act, the budget, marijuana, and funding for UMass. Professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on nearby life in outer space.
Monday, April 24, 201704/24/2017
Why Is Anti-Semitism on The Rise?
In Bill Newman
4/24 Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans on anti-Semitism—the topic of his upcoming lecture series at the Yiddish Book Center; LIVE IN THE STUDIO—THE NORTHAMPTONES – previewing their concert this weekend for the Manna Soup Kitchen.
Monday, April 24, 201704/24/2017
Pipeline Returns?
In Bill Newman
4/21: Katie Eisman, C.E.O. of Mass PLAN (The Massachusetts PipeLine Awareness Network) and PLAN for the Northeast, with breaking news about (un)natural gas pipelines about to be constructed here in western Massachusetts; MHC professors of physics Kathy Aidala and Kerstin Nordstrom preview the upcoming Sci-tech Café on totally cool engineering and reverse innovations.
Saturday, April 22, 201704/22/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 4.22.17
Gina Ayvazian leads the annual commemoration of Armenian Martyrs’ Day, when 1.5 million Armenians were systematically killed by the Turkish government starting in 1915, a genocide. All are welcomeand asked to ear black at the event, which takes place April 24 at 5:30 pm at the garage behind Thornes Marketplace.
Emmy-award winning filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Street Fight,” about Cory Booker’s 2002 succesful 2002 Newark, NJ, mayoral campaign. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=u6EkpsYtrsE
Larry also reviews the documentary about desforestation activists “If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation.” Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=WRwN-crcQrI&feature=youtu.be&list=UU-pvs6x9N_SPOrT3ESNJ8qQ
Manuel Frau Ramos, founder and editor of monthly bilingual El Sol Latino, talks about his impressions of a conference about Puerto Rico that was held at UMass in Amherst this month. This segment es en español.
My rant: Why it took many women and millions of dollars before Fox fired sexual predator, Bill O’Reilly.
We are sung out by Mercedes Sosa and Milton Nascimento, “Inconciente Colectivo.”
Image courtesy of Gina Ayvazian.
Friday, April 21, 201704/21/2017
Valley Voices 4/22/17
River Valley Co-op employee and union steward Kelsi Sleet talks with WHMP’s Stephanie Slysz regarding ongoing issues between workers and management, saying she and her co-workers are asking the co-op to live up to its values and lead on labor rights. With a written statement, River Valley Co-op General Manager Rochelle Prunty responds to the claims.
Friday, April 21, 201704/21/2017
Western Mass Business Show 4.22.17
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Ira talks with Sally Ekus from The Lisa Ekus Group
Thursday, April 20, 201704/20/2017
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
In Bill Newman
4/20: Pulitzer Prize Nominee Susan Bordo, author of “The Destruction of Hillary Clinton.” A special “Revered and the Rabbi” on bicycling to D.C. to fight for policies to combat climate change.
Wednesday, April 19, 201704/19/2017
The Single Largest Dismissal of Wrongful Convictions in U.S. History
In Bill Newman
4/19: Sheryl Stoodley and Robin Doty from Serious Play! preview “BLANK.” Then Henry Beard, author of “How to Succeed in Business and Politics and Everything Else Without Really Trying with ‘SpIn glish’— the Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately deceptive Language.”
