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.”

Recent Headlines

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Serena and Venus Williams to play doubles together at Wimbledon with a combined age of 90

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Even at a combined age of 90, opponents should still be wary of facing the Williams sisters at Wimbledon. Serena and Venus Williams won a combined 21 titles on the storied grass of the All England Club in their singles and doubles careers and now they're going for one more.

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Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion

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The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said in February that it was considering selling Pizza Hut and the chain looked to close 250 U.S. restaurants.

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Cape Verde stuns Spain with a surprising 0-0 draw in the country’s World Cup debut

So much for a supersized World Cup diluting the quality of soccer's biggest tournament. Tiny Cape Verde, making its debut at the World Cup, pulled off a stunning upset to shut out heavily favored Spain in a 0-0 draw on Monday.

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Athletes and older adults have long used smoothies and shakes blended with whey protein concentrate – a powdered byproduct of cheese-making – to build or maintain muscle. More recently, food companies have sprinkled it into everything from breakfast cereals, Pop-Tarts and potato chips to bagels, tortillas and Starbucks drinks to meet growing consumer demand.

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Trump celebrates 80th birthday with an Iran deal and UFC cage fights at the White House

President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the White House's storied South Lawn.