Podcasts

Podcasts

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Wednesday, March 20, 202403/20/2024

Big Questions

In Talk The Talk

Greenfield Community College VP of Workforce Development, Kristen Cole.  Rev Mark Seifried of Haydenville Congregational Church. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen asks, Why wasn’t this Northampton cop fired? UMass Prof Charmaine Nelson, Dir of Slavery North Initiative.

Tuesday, March 19, 202403/19/2024

Filling in the Holes

In Talk The Talk

3/19/24: Live from Tandem Bagel: Cool Films with Larry Hott: “Remembering Gene Wilder.” Spring? The Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Amherst schools on the fiscal cliff? School Comm. member Jennifer Shiao responds. “The Celtification of Emily Dickinson” with Rosie Caine & Robert Boulrice.

Monday, March 18, 202403/18/2024

Justice

In Talk The Talk

3/18/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: school funding. Atty Luke Ryan on erroneous convictions. Hon. Michael Ponsor, federal judge and novelist, on “Point of Order.” Northampton School Superintendent Dr. Portia Bonner: schools teetering on a fiscal cliff.

Friday, March 15, 202403/15/2024

The Hustler Files Ep 53

In The Hustler Files

THE HUMAN IMPACT FROM A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE X 5

In 1989 two horrific crimes took place in New York City.  The first was the rape and almost death of the woman who would be come to know as the Central Park jogger.  The second was the arrest, interrogations, and ultimate prison sentencing of five Black and Latino teenagers, for that crime. A crime they would later be exonerated for, in 2002.   It was during her senior year of college in 2003, while interning for a law firm, that Sarah Burns began the arduous process of unearthing the entire story, initially for her college thesis, to understand why and how these five teenagers could have been so falsely convicted.  Almost a decade later, Sarah, simultaneously, along with her husband David McMahon, not only published the book, The Central Park Five; A Chronicle of a City Wilding, but along with her father, documentarian, Ken Burns, produced, wrote, and directed a film by the same name.  The Central Park Five documentary received numerous awards in 2012/2013 and is still available to watch via streaming.

Friday, March 15, 202403/15/2024

Occupations

In Talk The Talk

3/15/24: Activists Paki Wieland, Priscilla Lynch & Nick Mottern: occupying Rep Jim McGovern’s Northampton office. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on Gaza & permissible use of earned sick time. Donnabelle Casis w/ Lucia Monge: the natural world recycled. Kennedy Institute for U.S. Senate CEO Adam Hinds. David Knowles w/ Producer-Director Jean Koester on “The Cemetery Club.”

Ruth Griggs and David Sporney

Thursday, March 14, 202403/14/2024

Million Dollar Questions

In Talk The Talk

3/14/24: Greenfield Acting Police Chief Todd Dodge: the $1Million+ race discrimination verdict against the Dept. Rev. Michael McSherry on the afterlife. Brian Adams with forester Lincoln Fish: our trees, ourselves. Ruth Griggs w/ UMass Professor of Trombone Dave Sporny.

Mary Lyon lives --with foundation founder Sue Samorinski & Exec. Dir. Kristen Tillona-Baker.

Wednesday, March 13, 202403/13/2024

Our Foundational Foundations

In Talk The Talk

3/13/24: Trivia, not trivial, w/ Northampton Education Foundation bd. members Lisa Papademetriou & Megan Zinn. David Mazor, founder of Reader to Reader. Larry Hott on “Zone of Interest” & “20 Days in Mariupol”. Nation magazine Michael Klare on nuclear war. Mary Lyon lives –with foundation founder Sue Samorinski & Exec. Dir. Kristen Tillona-Baker.

Todd GAZDA

Tuesday, March 12, 202403/12/2024

Lots of Green, Lots of Red

In Talk The Talk

3/12/24: Rep. Pat Duffy: St. Patrick’s Day & housing. Duke Goldman: hope for the Red Sox? Todd Gazda, Ex. Dir., Ed. Collaborative: schools, lacking cash, experiencing bullying and racism. Sarah & Ryan Voiland — the catastrophic fire at Red Fire Farm – the community’s response & how you can help.

Culomba

Monday, March 11, 202403/11/2024

Panorama — Episode 78 — CULOMBA a professional vocal ensemble specializing in harmony folk singing

In Panorama

Originally aired on March 9, 2024: Co-host Dan Torres talks to Sophie Michaux, Lysander Jaffe, Adam Simon, Lexi Ugelow, and Daniel Fridley, members of Culomba, a professional vocal ensemble specializing in close harmony folk singing. We discuss the meaning of Culomba, the ensemble’s origin, the struggles of being an artist, and the regions that inspire them.

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