Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, January 28, 201501/28/2015

On The Money (1/28/15)

This week on “On the Money with Gary Thomas” We are all saving money on gas. Why isn’t that showing…

Monday, January 26, 201501/26/2015

A Look Behind The Genius of Paul Taylor

In Bill Newman

Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Kate Geis on “Creative Domain” about iconic choreographer Paul Taylor along with Bill’s interview of Paul Taylor.

Saturday, January 24, 201501/24/2015

Western Mass Business Show 1.24.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Kristin Leutz from the Community Foundation of Western Mass.

Friday, January 23, 201501/23/2015

Oscar Nominated Documentaries & A Smithsonian Award Artist

In Bill Newman

Cool films with Emmy-Award–winning filmmaker Larry Hott; cool marquetry with 2015 Smithsonian-award-winning artist Silas Kopf.

Friday, January 23, 201501/23/2015

Is Social Security Secure?

In Bill Newman

MHC prof. Kathy Aidala on the Sci-Tech Café; Rev. Peter Ives, Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Rabbi Justin David on “Can Ferguson Happen Here?” Atty Nancy Altman, author of “Social Security Works!”

Wednesday, January 21, 201501/21/2015

SOTU, Not All Poor People are Black, & Mussolini

In Bill Newman

Photographers Steven Petegorsky, Step by Step, his new exhibit and Max Page on Deafening Silence—Mussolini’s Legacy in Rome. Janet Cheatham Bell, author of “Not All Poor People Are Black and other things we need to think more about.”

Tuesday, January 20, 201501/20/2015

On The Money (1/21/15)

Why would Bill Gross “The Bond King” say, “The good times are over?” How do you start an investment plan?…

Tuesday, January 20, 201501/20/2015

The Doomsday Clock

In Bill Newman

The hands are about to move on the Doomsday Clock– with Dr. Ira Helfand, Co-President, Int’l Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War;
Professor Julian E. Zelizer, on The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society.

Monday, January 19, 201501/19/2015

MLK Day: Social Justice & South Africa

In Bill Newman

The Paulo Freire Charter School for Social Justice—its foudner and its students. UMass history prof. John Higgison on apartheid in South Africa and America.

Saturday, January 17, 201501/17/2015

Western Mass Business Show 1.17.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Mark Borsari from Sanderson Macleod

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