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).

Anatomy of The Anatomy of A Film

1.17.18 Larry Hott hosts and looks at UMASS University Without Walls film program and talks about the drug crisis and young adult lit.

Wherefore Art Thou?

1.16.18 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts Newman’s failed attempt to surprise Monte by interviewing his children about the Young Shakespeare Players. And Max Paige talks higher ed.

Return To The Garden of Eatin’

1.15.18 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and hears from author and poet Leslea Newman and from the folks behind the Garden of Eatin’ Cafe in Springfield

The Bill Newman Show Jan 9, 2018

Umass President Marty Meehan with Max Page.  Your State U.    

Good News On The Trump Travel Ban?

1/3: Attorneys Buz Eisenberg and Bill Newman on yesterday’s immigration decision; poet Mary Koncel on “The Last Blond;” Filmmaker Larry Hott on the “Last Men in Aleppo;” Natalia Munoz on Hillary Clinton.

Recent Headlines

16 hours ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

16 hours ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

24 hours ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

2 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

2 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.