Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Saturday, April 4, 201504/04/2015

The Western Mass Business Show 4.4.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Part 2 of Ira’s conversation with Rick & Ross Giombetti of Giombetti Assoc.

Thursday, April 2, 201504/02/2015

Ken Burns on The Emperor Of All Maladies

In Bill Newman

Filmmaker Ken Burns on “Cancer: the Emperor of All Maladies” and his upcoming event at The Emily Dickinson Museum; then, The Rev (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David) on Passover and Easter.

Wednesday, April 1, 201504/01/2015

FDR’s Vision & Shays’ Rebellion

In Bill Newman

Scott J. Myers-Lipton, author of “Ending Extreme Inequality”; then author Daniel Bullen and National Historic Site historian Richard Colton on Daniel Shays — their upcoming event at Forbes Library.

Tuesday, March 31, 201503/31/2015

On The Money (4/1/15)

Starting to save again after the financial set back of 2008 What can we learn from wealthy people? Thinking long…

Tuesday, March 31, 201503/31/2015

The Future of Downtown Northampton: A WHMP Community Forum

WHMP hosts discuss the future of downtown Northampton post-BID with panelists Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, City Council President Bill Dwight,…

Monday, March 30, 201503/30/2015

Tim Blagg Retires From The Paper, Comes On The Radio

In Bill Newman

After 28 years as editor of the Greenfield Recorder, Tim Blagg joins us on retirement Day 1; UMass. Professor David Kotz on the rich getting richer and everyone else in America getting poorer—his new book is “The Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberal Capitalism”; Roselle Kline Chartock on ”prep schools in our midst, author of “The Windsor Mountain School, A Beloved Berkshire Institution.”

Saturday, March 28, 201503/28/2015

The Western Mass Business Show 3.28.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with the father/son duo of Rick & Ross Giombetti of Giombetti Assoc.

Friday, March 27, 201503/27/2015

Young@Heart & Old Souls

In Bill Newman

Live in the studio– The Young@Heart Chorus—a very moving preview of their upcoming show. Arts correspondent Betsy Stone with Steven Daiber of Red Trillium Press, just back from Cuba.

Thursday, March 26, 201503/26/2015

WTF ADHD & The Dr. of Poetry

In Bill Newman

Shahid Buttar, Exec. Dir. Of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee on rolling back the Patriot Act now! Marilyn Wedge, author of “A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD Became An American Epidemic;” Dr. Rafael Campo, Harvard Med School prof, poet and teacher of poetry on NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio) with Rich Michelson.

Wednesday, March 25, 201503/25/2015

The Beatles, Ginger Baker & Barbera Madeloni?

In Bill Newman

“Cool Films with (Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker) Larry Hott”: Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni with prof. Max Page.

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