Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

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.”

Tuesday, October 20, 201510/20/2015

On The Money (10/21/15)

This is the anniversary of the 1987 market plunge of 22% in one day. Can it happen again? How do…

Tuesday, October 20, 201510/20/2015

Maria from Sesame Street, Barry Moser AND Sarah Vowell!?

In Bill Newman

10/20: Two poignant memoirs: Barry Moser on “We Were Brothers” and Sonia Manzano (Maria on Sesame Street) on “Love and Chaos in the South Bronx.” Then, Sarah Vowell on “Lafayette in the Somewhat United States” (history as you’ve never quite heard it before).

Monday, October 19, 201510/19/2015

Two For Tibet

In Bill Newman

10/19: Horrors and hope in Tibet: The Tibet Film Fest—“Tibet in Song” and “Bringing Tibet Home” a preview with Verena Smith and Thondup Tsering; then, “The Science of Sleep” with UMass professor of Psychology and Brain Science, Rebecca Spencer; ten years post Katrina we return to New Orleans with N.O. community activist, Dr. Rev. Dwight Webster.

Saturday, October 17, 201510/17/2015

Western Mass Business Show 10.17.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Chris Gill from Peerless Handcuffs.

Friday, October 16, 201510/16/2015

Muldoon, Michelson & Moser

In Bill Newman

10/16: NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio) with Rich Michelson & Pulitzer prize-winner Paul Muldoon; Barry Moser on both the “NPR” segment and on “Inside/Out” with Betsy Stone; and Oonagh Doherty, author of “Durante la Tregua:/During the Truce.”

Thursday, October 15, 201510/15/2015

Cathedral In The Night

In Bill Newman

10/15: We are blessed with very special edition of the “Reverend and the Rabbi” celebrating Cathedral in the Night (see photo);
,hear about School Local Northampton with nationally known political commentator Bill Scher; and preview the Cat Café’ at the Tree House Community starring Evelyn Harris.

Wednesday, October 14, 201510/14/2015

Lakota, Latinos & Drones

In Bill Newman

11/14: Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Larry Hott on his new film, “Rising Voices,” premiering at the Academy of Music this Sunday; Lt.-Col. T. Mark McCurley (USAF-ret) on ”Hunter Killer: Inside America’s Unmanned Air War;” then “Vaya con Munoz” — Natalia Munoz with Professor Manuel Frau Ramos, publisher of El Sol Latino.

Wednesday, October 14, 201510/14/2015

Pipeline Update

In Bill Newman

10/13: Katy Eisman, Director of MassPLAN (PipeLine Awareness Network) and President of PLAN-New England, describes the fight at the FERC. Then, Hampshire College professors Salman Hameed (astronomy) and Jason Tor (microbiology) explain how best to fill up our water bottles on Mars.

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