Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Tuesday, August 12, 201408/12/2014

The Bill Newman Show 8.12.14

In Bill Newman

Don Berwick, Democrat for governor; Kate Manning on My Notorious Life; Paintbox Theatre- Tarzan, Jane and the jungle animals are in the studio.

Tuesday, August 12, 201408/12/2014

The Bill Newman Show 8.11.14

In Bill Newman

Mount Holyoke College President and esteemed medical ethicist Lynn Pasquerella on the Ebola epidemic; Phyllis Bennis, nationally renown author and…

Saturday, August 9, 201408/09/2014

Taking Care of Business 8.9.14

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira speak with Eric Hagopian from Hoppe Technologies.

Friday, August 8, 201408/08/2014

The Bill Newman Show 8.8.14

In Bill Newman

Representative John Scibak on the new domestic violence bill, funding for UMass, the probation department scandal and political races.

Thursday, August 7, 201408/07/2014

The Bill Newman Show 8.4.14

In Bill Newman

Rafe Esquith on Real Talk for Real Teachers; then, professor and astronomer Salman Hameed’s Ridiculously Large and Largely Ridiculous Universe;

Wednesday, August 6, 201408/06/2014

The Bill Newman Show 8.3.14

In Bill Newman

Josh Weil, author of The Great Glass Sea; Larry Hott and Nina Kleinberg on “Casablanca;” Black in the Valley with Freedom-Rider Jean Denton-Thompson.

Wednesday, August 6, 201408/06/2014

The Bill Newman Show 8.1.14

In Bill Newman

Paki Wieland on drones in our midst; Bliss Requa-Trautz and Gia Bernini on immigrant children coming to western Massachusetts.

Wednesday, August 6, 201408/06/2014

The Bill Newman Show 7.31.14

In Bill Newman

Clare Higgins, former Northampton mayor and Executive Director of Community Action; Chris Tomlinson, author of Tomlinson Hill, a history in black and white.

Tuesday, August 5, 201408/05/2014

Didn’t Happen Overnight

Tuesday, August 5, 201408/05/2014

Dietitian Meets Herbalist

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Presidents Day 2026: Here’s what’s open and closed on the holiday

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