Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, October 30, 201510/30/2015

Are We Moving Any Closer to Ending Racism?

In Bill Newman

10/30: Kali Nicole Gross, Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at UT-Austin, on racism in our schools and politics; Eva Fierst, curator at UMass. Amherst Museum of Contemporary Art, on the amazing Chuck Close exhibit; Professor Jonathan Fineberg, author of “Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain.”

Thursday, October 29, 201510/29/2015

An Iraqi Cellist for Peace

In Bill Newman

10/29: Peacemaker Karim Wasfi, conductor and cellist of the Iraq National Symphony Orchestra — the cellist of Baghdad; Represent Us CEO Josh Silver on the presidential primaries (the numbers may shock you); and Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and UMass. professor Ron Story on Jonathan Edwards and Pope Francis

Wednesday, October 28, 201510/28/2015

The Future of High-Stakes Testing

In Bill Newman

10/28: Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni; then Natalia Munoz and Jeff Naplolitano on Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Tuesday, October 27, 201510/27/2015

On The Money (10/28/15)

Are there any changes to your 401k for 2016? The pension question: Lump sum or monthly check? How do you…

Tuesday, October 27, 201510/27/2015

Clementine Churchill & The Candidates for Hamp School Committee

In Bill Newman

10/27: Sonia Purnell, author of “Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill;” candidates for at-large Northampton School Committee seats, Nat Read and Blue Duval.

Monday, October 26, 201510/26/2015

Does Greenfield Want More Mayor Martin?

In Bill Newman

10/26: Greenfield Mayor and candidate for re-election Bill Martin; Amherst College’s Roosevelt Institute students; MHC Professor Kathy Aidala on the Sci-Tech Café.

Saturday, October 24, 201510/24/2015

Western Mass Business Show 10.24.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Steve Neveu of Notch Mechanical Constructors.

Friday, October 23, 201510/23/2015

Holyoke Mayoral Debate: Election 2015

Live from Gateway City Arts it’s WHMP’s 2015 Holyoke Mayoral Debate! Incumbent Alex Morse squares off against challenger Fran O’Connell…

Friday, October 23, 201510/23/2015

How Soon Will Humans Be Extinct?

In Bill Newman

10/22: Paul Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb” and some 40 other books whose newest co-authored work is “The Annihilation of Nature.”

Wednesday, October 21, 201510/21/2015

Patty Morey Walker & Kinky Friedman

In Bill Newman

10/21: Patty Morey Walker, candidate for mayor of Greenfield; Kinky Friedman, music legend and one-time candidate for Governor of Texas. Then, “Vaya con Munoz.”

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Rex Heuermann to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings, ending long search for a serial killer

A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims' relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.

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Route 66, a quintessential American road trip heavy on kitsch and history, turns 100

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UK government blocks rapper Ye from entering Britain to headline festival

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has been barred from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to perform at the Wireless Festival in July. It came after government officials condemned Ye's history of antisemitic remarks. The festival's organizers confirmed the ban and said the entire three-day festival was being canceled as a result.