Podcasts

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Wednesday, November 8, 202311/08/2023

Picture This: Sights, Sounds & War

In Talk The Talk

11/8/23: Cool Films with Larry Hot (“32 Sounds”- amazing!). Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art E.D.s Alexandra Kennedy & Jennifer Schantz. Live in the Studio: Forest Avenue — Eveline MacDougall, Desi Lowit, Dan Frank & John Clark. What would Daniel Ellsberg say about Israel & Gaza? with UMass prof Chris Appy & author Norman Solomon.

Tuesday, November 7, 202311/07/2023

The Elections We Make

In Talk The Talk

11/7/23: Author Jonathan Harr on “The Burial,” now on Amazon Prime. Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on the Truth School and, also, singing LIVE in the studio with Jeff Olmsted. Local trauma specialist Carter J. Carter on Gaza and Israel. Sen Paul Mark on democracy.   

Monday, November 6, 202311/06/2023

This Show Flows!  

In Talk The Talk

11/6/23: Sen Jo Comerford on the candidates she’s voting for & free menstruation products.; N’hmptn Mayor G.L. Sciarra on the police chief & Main Street; const. law prof Bruce Miller on keeping Trump off the ballot & guns at SCOTUS; Megan Zinn with local YA author Crystal Maldonado on “The Fall of Whit Rivera.”

Friday, November 3, 202311/03/2023

Panorama — Episode 73 — Amherst At-Large Candidates

In Panorama

Originally aired on November 4, 2023. Before Tuesday’s election, Dan Torres talks to five of the six Amherst at-large candidates–Mandi Jo Hanneke, Andrew J. Steinberg, Jamie Danielle Daniels, Ellisha Walker, and Matthew W. Holloway (we were unable to contact Liana C. Sweeney). They discuss revenue, roads, education, and why each candidate is running for office.

Friday, November 3, 202311/03/2023

HELP!

In Talk The Talk

11/3/22:  Rep. Jim McGovern on the House Republicans. MTA President Max Page on safety at schools. Donnabelle Casis with Sharon Leshner on Eastworks Open Studios. N’hmpton City Council President Jim Nash on hate speech during Public Comment. Rich Michelson with Smith College prof, poet, & co-author of Marvel’s World of Wakanda, Yona Harvey.

 

Glenn Siegel and Professor Darryl Harper

Thursday, November 2, 202311/02/2023

Sounds and Silence

In Talk The Talk

11/2/23: Hampshire Prof. Salman Hameed on Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Atty John Pucci on Trump’s legal travails today. Brian Adams with Mass Wildlife’s Dave Wattles on black bears (super fun!). Glenn Seigel with superstar clarinetist & Amherst Coll prof Darryl Harper.

Thursday, November 2, 202311/02/2023

Sentences and Fragments

In Talk The Talk

11/1/23: DA Dave Sullivan on protesters’ arrests and Cara Rintala’s sentence. Vietnam War poets Doug Anderson & Preston Hood on Lost War/Found Souls. Reporters Dusty Christensen on local police acting illegally and Sarah Robertson on the emergency shelters crisis. UMass prof & PERI Co-director Robert Pollin on low wage workers power.

Wednesday, November 1, 202311/01/2023

Western Mass Business Show on 10.28.23 — Carla Cosenzi interviews Tara Brewster

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Carla Cosenzi (Tommy Car Auto Group) was on a few months ago and said that she wanted to come back and interview me, and she followed thru. So, tune into the WMBS to have the opportunity to learn more about the host Tara Brewster and how she came to be a 44-year-old living in WMA. As you know, this show is my love letter to the community and this interview will give a bit more background to my why and reasons for living the life that I do in service of other here in the 413. Join us. 

Larry Hott and Andrew Leland

Tuesday, October 31, 202310/31/2023

Teach Your Children? Well,

In Talk The Talk

10/31/23: Larry Hott & Andrew Leland on ”The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.” Claudia Lefko on her Ward 3 (N’hmpt) write-in candidacy. Professors Trevor Kearns & Joe Nardoni on our underfunded community colleges. Peter Whalen on insurance in a time of climate change.

Monday, October 30, 202310/30/2023

Two Unconstitutional

In Talk The Talk

10/30/23: Innovation Institute’s Pat Larkin & Sharron Wall on $5M UMass grant. Prof. Michael Klare on the Hamas-Israel War. Atty Tom Lesser on the unconstitutional federal marijuana law & Greenfield’s unconstitutional equity theft. UMass student Ava Hawkes on the protests & arrests. Writers Block with Megan Zinn & Suzanne Michelle Smith.

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