Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, October 19, 201610/19/2016

“Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome”

In Bill Newman

10/19: Laurie Millman, Tommy Twilight, poets, teachers and students from the Center for New Americans; George Lakey, author of “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right and How We Can, Too;” plus a special edition of “NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio.”

Wednesday, October 19, 201610/19/2016

Should Massachusetts Raise The Cap on Charter Schools? A Question 2 Forum

Should Massachusetts lift the cap on Charter Schools? WHMP, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, The Recorder and NCTV are teaming up…

Wednesday, October 19, 201610/19/2016

Gravity Waves

In Bill Newman

10/18: The return of the Sci-tech café – breaking news from outer space (seriously!) with Smith professor Gary Felder and MHC professor Kathy Aidala; “Away with the Faeries” with NYT best-selling author Jane Yolen and fiddler Donna Hebert; the Comedy Quiz with the founders of the Has Has and Jedi grammarian and punctuation expert Joan Holliday! (or is it ? or both)

Tuesday, October 18, 201610/18/2016

On The Money (10/19/16)

Should we make changes in our allocations before the election? How do you protect your money in retirement, yet still…

Monday, October 17, 201610/17/2016

Don’t Call Us “Minorities”

In Bill Newman

10.17.16 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks Trump, Amherst Schools and bringing diversity to academia.

Saturday, October 15, 201610/15/2016

Western Mass Business Show 10.15.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira Bryck talks with Michael Lyon from Lyon Aviation in Pittsfield.

Saturday, October 15, 201610/15/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 10.15.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

10.15.16 Vero González, a teacher at the Paulo Freire School of Social Justice, talks about how people like GOP presidential candidate still are suported by millions despite his bigotry, the most recent display being his boasts about his sexual predatory conduct. What needs to change how women and girls are treated? Better education is a start, she says.
Filmmaker Larry Hott review Miss Sharon Jones! a documentary by Barbara Kopple [trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eNSgCQzCI] about a singer those of us who do not know her will be thrilled to know. Larry promises she will have you dancing. The movie is playing at the Amerst Cinema.
And we are sung out by the big bang star, Benny Moré, singing a rousing ballad, “Mucho Corazón.”

Friday, October 14, 201610/14/2016

Rad Women

In Bill Newman

10.14.16 Kate Schatz with her-as of yet to be announced-NY Times best-seller “Rad Women Worldwide”. Plus, Baylen Linnekin, author of “Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Out Food System More Sustainable;” Kim Loughlin, Director of Admissions at The Bement School on the upcoming Independent School Fair; Eva Fierst—what happening at OUR Museum.

Thursday, October 13, 201610/13/2016

It’s All Over Now, Question Two

In Bill Newman

10/13: Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni – Save Our Public Schools, NO on question 2; Nicholson Baker, author of “Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids.” A special edition of “The Reverend and the Rabbi.” (Oh, and we had just found out Dylan won the Noble Prize)

Wednesday, October 12, 201610/12/2016

Stems & Seeds & Steves

In Bill Newman

10/12: The fabulous Rick Steves-Yes on Question 4; Sheryl Stoodley and Robin Doty on” White Rabbi, Red Rabbit.” A special edition of “Vaya con Munoz.”

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