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).

Peace Studies

9/20: Out! For Reel; The Reverend and the Rabbi; Eric Lawson, CEO and co-founder of Peace First.

A Good Turn

10.1.18 Keith O’Brien, author of “Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History.” Black in the Valley: tap-dancing dancing around, a family affair.

What Happens Now?

9.28.18 Former United States Attorney for Western Massachusetts John Pucci on the Kavanaugh hearing and the Manafort plea.

Trump On The Couch

9/27: Psychiatrist Jerome Frank, author of “Trump on the Couch;” a very special “Reverend and the Rabbi.”

Get To Know Your Pinot

9/26: No whining about the wine, the perfect radio pairing with expert Madeline Puckett.

A Firmer Foundation

9/21: Max Page and Maureen Colgan Posner on issues in high school; the Sci-Tech Café returns!

Natural & Unnatural Disasters

9.19 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts on Yom Kippur and talks about the one year anniversary of Maria in Puerto Rico and the Kavanaugh accusations

The Motown Man

9/17: A special Black in the Valley; Preview: the Northampton Playwrights Lab.

Fixin’ A Hole In The Space Station

9/14: MTA Veep Max Page on Betsy DeVos; astronomer Salman Hameed on Mars.

Recent Headlines

1 day ago in National

A violent tornado tears through Oklahoma town, damaging 40 homes but sparing lives

Raeann Hunt scrambled to her cellar as a tornado bore down on her Oklahoma community. "It is headed right for us," she recalled thinking, as she peeked outside, unable to contain her curiosity.

2 days ago in National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

3 days ago in Sports, Trending

NFL teams are almost on the clock as draft night in the Steel City has arrived

Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

3 days ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

3 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.