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).

Reagan Begat Trump?

10/18: “Reagan: An America Journey” with Bob Spitz; then, a preview of this weekend’s performance at the Montague Book Mill with Dave Dersham; Rev. Peter Ives, Rev. Yohah Ralph and Mariel Addis on Ballot Question 3, transgender rights.

The Game

10/16: George Howe Colt, author of “The Game: Harvard, Yale & America in 1968;” John Shuttler, author of “Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition,” And the Comedy Quiz: on Sigmund Freud with the Has Ha s Pam Victor and Laura Patrick plus contestant Monte Belmonte & Quiz Master, Dr. Michael Klein.

Woodstock Meets Old San Juan

10/15: Young@Heart: a brilliant and moving preview of this weekend’s mash-up of the Young@Heart Chorus and Jesus Pagan y su orquesta; Adrienne Truscott previews her acclaimed worldwide one woman show coming to the Academy of Music, “Asking for It;” then Black in the Valley with Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith Crooks, Professor Carlie Tartakov, and Roger Wallace.

Is It The Media’s Fault?

10/11: Amherst College Professor Ilan Stavans; John Stinton, author of “Devil’s Den to Lickingwater: The Mill River Through Landscape and History;” then
three reverends (Peter Ives, Todd Weir and Sarah Buteau and a rabbi (Justin David).

We Definitely Talked About Things Other Than That One Big Sports Thing

10/10: The YANKEES WIN! (Newman wakes up from a dream, remembers nightmare). Also, Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery, author of “The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle.” And then, Robert Freedman, local activist, on traveling to other districts to help Take Back the House.

Cooperation

10/9: Live from the River Valley Co-op –our annual Coop Show with our amazing valley co-ops—what’s happened the last year; what’s apt to happen in the next twelve months.

Once Upon A Time There Was A Moth…

10/8: The Story Slam returns to the Academy of Music; them – A Woman Wins!– Nobel Prize news with Smith College professors of physics Doreen Weinberger and Gary Feldman.

There Is A Goblin in Our Solar System

10/5: Breaking News from Outer Space! with professor and astronomer Salman Hameed; then, breaking news in the field Massachusetts education and politics with professor and MTA Vice-President Max Page.

Science & Lust in the #MeToo Era

10/4: Rebecca Coffey, author of “Science and Lust: Brainy Sex Vol. I;” then, coming to the Academy of Music: “Life in the 413;” and then, coming before the Northampton City Council –the fossil fuel resolution with City Council President Ryan O’Donnell; on “The Reverend and the Rabbi:” in memoriam: Arky Markham.

Is It Time For The Springfield Diocese To Confess?

10/2: The priest sex scandals and the local Catholic diocese; then, author Michael Sokolove on “The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino.”

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