Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, May 31, 201705/31/2017

Who Framed Roger Stone?

In Bill Newman

5/31: Republican party operatives—reviews and previews by Emmy Award-winning Filmmaker Larry Hott; then “You Don’t Know Jack” with Jack Golden and Linda McInerney.

Tuesday, May 30, 201705/30/2017

What Does The Trump Budget Mean for Massachusetts?

In Bill Newman

5/30: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg; Greenfield Community College President Bob Pura.

Friday, May 26, 201705/26/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 5.27.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Larry Hott reviews “Risk,” a documentary by Laura Poitras, who most famopusly directed “Citizenfour” (2014) about Edward Snowden, the former CIA contrator who leaked classified information about surveillance programs on average American citizens and people abroad. “Risk” is about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who recently beat rape charges against him by Sweden by staying safely out of reach esconsed in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=g7icupYSOJ8
Ariadna Goenaga celebra la genialidad del director austriáco-norteamericano Billy Wilder, y tres de sus películas: “Some Like It Hot,” “Sunset Boulevard” y “The Apartment.”
David Silva, executive director of the Puerto Rico Culture Center (prccmass.com) updates us on cultural events. He also talks about being Puerto Rican in the United States.
Gricel Ocasio Martínez, founder and publisher of the largest LGBTQ publication in New England, on the awesome support she has received over its 10 years of existence, thorugh thick and thin. Read online here: therainbowtimesmass.com
Shakira sings us out with “Lo hecho está hecho.”
Image of “Risk” from official trailer video

Friday, May 26, 201705/26/2017

You May Have Already Won $5 Trillion Dollars

In Bill Newman

5/26: Joel Solomon, author of “The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism.”

Friday, May 26, 201705/26/2017

A Vegetarian’s Guide To Eating Meat

In Bill Newman

5/25: Marissa Landrigan, author of “The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat: a Young Woman’s Search for Ethical Food.”

Wednesday, May 24, 201705/24/2017

Western Mass Business Show 5.27.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

5.27.17 Tim O’Brien talks with Adam Lussier from Zanna in Amherst

Wednesday, May 24, 201705/24/2017

A More Massive Mass MoCA

In Bill Newman

5.24.17 Monte pinch hits as Newman nurses his vocal chords and talks about the expansion of Mass MoCA, plus Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Larry Hott with Barton Byg on the importance of East German films and Vaya Con Muñoz with Natalia Muñoz on the complicated history of Oscar Lopez Rivera.

Tuesday, May 23, 201705/23/2017

Madeloni Gets Mad

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5/23: Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni and PHENOM, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts founder Max Page. Then, Pam Victor –comedy star.

Monday, May 22, 201705/22/2017

Bridges Not Walls

In Bill Newman

5/22: Professor and former political prisoner Mohammed Sawalha, founder and Director of the Palestinian House of Friendship.

Saturday, May 20, 201705/20/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 5.20.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott recommends a podcast called “S-Town”.Link here: stownpodcast.org/. Listening to it, you will see a maginifent film created by your imagination based the true story of an Alabama man.
En español, la curadora Waleska Santiago comparte su perspectiva sobre la pintura “Ataúd abierto”, por la pintora blanca alemana Dana Shutz, de Emmett Till, un muchacho negro de 14 años que fue golpeado y ahorcado en 1955 por racistas en Mississippi.
Laura Lovett, U.S. women’s history professor at UMass, and Maurianne Adams, retired social justice professor at UMass, and journalist Marla Goldberg (amherstspectator.com) on the push to create a new historic dsitrict in Amherst based the people who lived in the North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset area.
Santana sings us out with “Everything’s Going Our Way.”
Image by Natalia Muñoz Google Maps

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