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).

Bill and Denise Discuss Bachelor Nation, Plus Max Page on Higher Ed

Denise Vozella and Bill chat up journalist and book author Amy Kaufman about “Bachelor Nation, and PHENOM, founder Max Page on massachusetts turning its back on public higher ed

Bill Newman Show 3/14/18 with Ryan O’Donnell, Larry Hott and Natalia Munoz

Bill Newman talks gun control with Ryan O’Donnell, and the Jewish Film Festival with Larry Hott. WHMP’s Natalia Munoz also makes an appearance.

Northampton Student Organizers Walkout–Bill Newman Show 3/12

Bill Newman speaks with an organizer of the student walkout planned at Northampton’s JFK Middle School over gun violence

The Valley Letters Project

3/9: Bills and Letters: Bill Scher from Politico, Bill Dwight, from the Northampton City Council and Bill Newman from WHMP preview the Valley Letters Project with Emily Curro from the Academy of Music; Pam Victor of the Ha Has brings improv to the work place; Donnabelle Casis joins Betsy Stone to tell us about her opening tonight.

The Woman’s Hour

3/8: On International Women’s Day, Elaine Weiss, author of “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote;” then, The Reverend and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin david, and Rev. Chris Carlisle.

#Yolen 365 (#LeapYolen366)

3/7: Valley author Jane Yolen, joined by author and her daughter Heidi Stemple, celebrate the publication yesterday of her 365 and 366 books –a novel and a picture book! State Representative Aaron Vega (D.-Holyoke), is joined by Sylvia Galvan, President of the Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice.

The Pale Blue Dot In High Definition

3/6: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on UMass President Marty Meehan’s presentation (with no mention of free public higher education or the need for more state support) yesterday to the Massachusetts political powers; Dr. Lisa Mosconi, author of “Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power;” Hampshire College professor and Five College Professor of Astronomy Salman Hameed on life near the very bottom of the ocean and stars near the very beginning of time.

Can The House Turn Blue?

3/5: Emily Martz, Mount Holyoke College, Class of 1994, candidate for Congress in upstate New York, describes running against big money; Our regular “Black in the Valley” segment with special guest Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste and hosts Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov, on the import of the movie Black Panther.

A Child of The Rosenbergs Responds

3/2: Robert Meeropol, whose parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed as atomic spies, responds to a new book about his parents’ case; Lois Ahrens, founder and Executive Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, on bail reform (or not) in Massachusetts

A Community Rallies Around Soccer and Somalis

3/1: Amy Bass, author of “One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought Together a Divided Town;” David Daley, author of “Rat F**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count,” on gerrymandering and the future (or not) of democracy in
America; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David, with considerable help from Monte, explain Purim.

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