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.

Recent Headlines

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The Ballon d'Or winners will be announced on Monday with a new generation of soccer stars, led by Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé, ready to stamp their name on the trophy that for so long was a personal duel between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

4 days ago in National

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The horse-drawn carriages that have cruised through Central Park for more than 150 years will soon be banished from New York City, ending an iconic tradition beloved by tourists but long opposed by animal welfare activists.

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