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).

Meet The Candidates for Senate Part I: Ryan O’Donnell & Chelsea Kline

8/8: Candidates for State Senate Ryan O’Donnell and Chelsea Kline; then, Adam Tooze, author of “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.”

Tahirah’s Run

8/6: A Fishwrap: Newman considers Trump testifying or meeting with Mueller; then, Tahirah Amatul Wadud, who is opposing Richard Neal for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the First District — with Black in the Valley host, Professor Carlie Tartakov and Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks.

On Lunching While Black and The End of The Nuclear Era

8/3: From the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice on the community memorial for Hiroshima—Jeff Napolitano and Sabine Merz; then, the failure of the Massachusetts legislature to reform educational funding –with MTA Vice President Max Page.

Industrious Angels

8/2: The Ko festival presents; then, the Pastor and the Reverend.

Mermaid Porn

8/1: Mermaids and puffer fish in our studio –you gotta sea (or hear) this! Then we examine porn with Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Who Will Be First In The Second Hampshire?

7/31: Candidates for the Democratic nomination for state representative in the Second Hampshire District (the seat held by John Scibak, who is retiring)—the towns of Hadley, South Hadley, Easthampton and half of Granby: Marie McCourt, John Hine, and Dan Carey; then, Dawn Raffel, author of “The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies.”

14 Trans Women Released by ICE Thanks to Western Mass’ IPP

7/30: Fourteen trans women have been released from ICE custody on the New Mexico/Mexico border! We speak with the people who directed this hard fought legal battle: Javier Luegno-Garrido, Coordinator of the ACLUM of Mass. Immigrant Protection Project of Western Massachusetts (IPP) , Megan Kludt, Northampton-based immigration attorney and central person for the IPP; and Allegra Love, Director of and attorney with the Santa Fe’s Dreamers Project. First, Professor Katharine Gerbner, author of “Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World.”

Grey Gardens and NOLA coming To South Hadley

7/27: Jerry Torre and Tony Maietta on “The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens.”

A Year Long Nap

7/26: Ottessa Moshfegh—her already acclaimed new novel is “A Year of Rest and Relaxation;” then, Valley Rock Voices’ also, The Pastor and the Reverend on
Cathedral in the Night and Cathedral in the Light.

Mother Bear

7/25: The Ko Festival presents…

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