Podcasts: Bill Newman

Bill Newman

The Bill Newman Show. Weekdays at 9AM. Join Bill & Monte Belmonte as they talk with news-makers, elected officials, authors, artists, poets, and ‘fish wrap’ about the day’s headlines.

Recent guests include authors Senator Elizabeth Warren (Persist); Larry Tye (Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy); Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain); Chuck Collins (The Wealth Hoarders and Born on Third Base).

Changing Our National Priorities

11.15.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts as we hear a very special Reverend and The Rabbi with the National Priorities Project. Plus a conversation about the young Ben Franklin and the onslaught of rabbis headed to the border.

Are We ‘Playing With Fire’ Again?

11/14: Lawrence O’Donnell, the MSNBC host, on “Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics;” Corinne Demas, MHC professor children’s book author—her “The Littlest Matryoshka” is coming to the Eric Carle Museum—a play performed by marionettes with storytelling and music. Then, Al Williams on the Northampton Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through the weekend.

Poets Ease Us Through Election Day

11/6: Election Day: Newman quotes Paul Krugman and Jay Gonzalez, Democrat for Governor, calls in; politics continue (national and personal) with poets Rich Michelson, Martin Espada, and Paul Mariani, joined in the photo by our guest Jorge Renaud from the Prison Policy Initiative—Espada, it turns out, is his favorite poet! And then, Cai Emmons, author of “Weather Woman.”

More On Question 1

11/5: Ballot Question 1 — on minimum nurse staffing in hospitals with full-time bedside nurse and MNA bargaining rep at Baystate -Franklin, Donna Stern; then, “Thomas Cromwell:A Revolutionary Life” with best-selling author, Anglican Deacon, and Oxford University Professor of the History of the Church, Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch; a very special Black in the Valley.

The Death of Dawn

11/2: MTA Vice President Max Page on the Governor’s race in Massachusetts; astronomer and Hampshire College professor Salman Hameed with breaking news form outer space—the demise of Dawn.

There is a FIFTH(!) Ballot Question?

11/1: Ballot question 5 — on ranked choice voting with Andy Anderson, from Voter Choice Massachsuetts; Cider Days in the Valley with Al Sax; then, the Reverend and the Rabbi and the Reverend.

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