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).
The Sex Talk
2/14: On Valentine’s Day Dr Jane Fleishman tries to explain sex and love to Monte and Bill, after which local singer-songwriter Diana Alvarez makes us fall in love with her music.
The Environmental Bible
2/13: Ken Johnston on his upcoming “Walk to Freedom;” Kevin Templeton on “Bending Towards Justice: The Art of Robert Templeton and the Struggle for Civil Rights;” Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on his film about the founder of the environmental movement; then, PHENOM founder Max Page
Saving Tarboo Creek
2/12: Saving democracy with Represent US CEO Josh Silver; “Saving Tarboo Creek” and the natural world with Scott Freeman
Ain’t Gonna Let College Loans Turn Me Around
2/9: Live in the studio the Smith college a capella group –Blackapella! Newman and Monte on pot; Eva Fierst on the arts in the valley this weekend.
Ethan at 21
2/8: Camille McGovern, founder of Whole Children, on this weekend’s premiere of the film about her son; Max Page on State Senate President Stan Rosenberg and all things UMass.
Pretty Cool Festival
2/7: Penny Burke, on this weekend’s Ice Festival; Debra J’Anthony and Emily Curro from the Academy of Music on “Thurgood” and “The Valley Letters Project.”
Free As Niberd
2/6: ACLUM Immigrant Protection Project attorney Buz Eisenberg with his recently released from ICE custody client Niberd Abdalla and his wife Ellen McShane; “Salman Hameed’s Universe” with Hampshire College and Five College professor of astronomy Salman Hameed.
Black In The Valley In The 50’s
2/5: To celebrate Black/African-American History Month: Black in the Valley with hosts Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov with Smith College alum Dolores Cook (class of 1951); Northampton attorney David Hoose on the public defender crisis in Massachusetts, and UMass faculty Dan Chard, co-editor of just published “Science for the People.”
Understanding “The Memo”
2/2: Former head of the UA Attorney’s Office in western Massachusetts, Attorney John Pucci, on the Russia investigation and Trump’s strategy for shutting it down.
Tyrants Always Fall
2/1: ALIVE –REALLY ALIVE!! In the studio –The Northamptones; and then the Nields! And then, the Reverend and the Rabbi –Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David
on the rabbi’s new book.
