Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Monday, October 31, 201610/31/2016

RE: EMAILS, CLINTON & THE F.B.I.

In Bill Newman

10/31: Attorney John Pucci, former U.S. Attorney & head of Western Massachusetts Office, on Friday’s FBI disclosure of HRC’s emails; Liz Larson and Irv Rhodes on “Yes on 5,” the ballot question on new elementary schools in Amherst; Seth Lepore & Linda McInerney on “The Trump Show;” Bob Cilman on the upcoming Young @ Heart concert and intergenerational mash-up

Monday, October 31, 201610/31/2016

Western Mass Business Show 10.29.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with total quality expert, Gary Nader.

Saturday, October 29, 201610/29/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 10.29.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Today we talk with our fabulous correspondent, my aunt Melo aka Victoria Muñoz Mendoza, who was a senator and gubernatorial candidate in Puerto Rico in 1992, about the US presidential election. She is hopeful that we in the US do our simplest and one of my most hallowed actions on Nov. 8: Voting.
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews a funny documental about Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, called “Bright Lights.” Trailer here: https://deadline.com/2016/05/hbo-documentary-bright-lights-debbie-reynolds-carrie-fisher-cannes-video-1201755169/
And we get sung out by La India, the Princess of Salsa, singing “Nunca Voy a Olvidarte.”
Photo of the recent polls courtesy of RealClearPolitics.com

Friday, October 28, 201610/28/2016

To Sir, With Love

In Bill Newman

10/28: Professor James Stillwaggon on “Filmed School” –his new book about how film portrays teachers — “Desire, transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy;” Liz Friedman, Program Director of MotherWoman, Northampton City Councilors Alisa Klein and Gina Louise-Sciarra on the Pregnant Woman Fairness Resolution in Northampton; David Little, Director of the Mead—Amherst College’s—Art Museum, our special guest with Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone.

Thursday, October 27, 201610/27/2016

#exonerateethel

In Bill Newman

10/27: Rosenberg Fund for Children founder (and younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) Robert Meeropol and RFC Executive Director Jenn Meeropol on the campaign to exonerate Ethel; Peter Steinberg, President of the Board of Mak’hela, the Jewish Chorus of Western Massachusetts, And Naomi Tannen, board member of Manna Soup Kitchen on the upcoming concert (and fundraiser) to celebrate 30 years of the Manna Soup kitchen.

Wednesday, October 26, 201610/26/2016

Wooden Bowls Filling Empty Bowls

In Bill Newman

10/26: Congressman Jim McGovern and Sudan expert (and wood turner) Professor Eric Reeves on hunger here in the Valley and genocide in the Sudan; “Your State U.” with Max Page and Richard Rabinowitz, author of “Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past.”

Tuesday, October 25, 201610/25/2016

On The Money (10/26/16)

Why is the economy working for some, and not for others? How is your Financial IQ? Women over 65 are…

Tuesday, October 25, 201610/25/2016

Weed & Warrants & Wendell

In Bill Newman

10/25: State Rep. Aaron Vega, Northampton attorney Dick Evans, and Apollo Campagnone and Patti Scutari of Wendell –victims of the recent state police helicopter raid on marijuana plants (which were being grown legally) at their home in Wendell– discuss Ballot Question 4—ending the marijuana prohibition; NYT best-selling author Jane Yolen on the upcoming evening of political poetry.

Monday, October 24, 201610/24/2016

A Valley of Immigrants

In Bill Newman

10/24: Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans, contributor to and editor of, “Words in Transit: Stories of Immigrants.” Also, Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US,

Saturday, October 22, 201610/22/2016

Western Mass Business Show 10.22.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

10.22.16 Ira talks with Karen Utgoff from Utgoff Consulting.

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