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).

Tickling Giants

11.30.17 A discussion of the seemingly never ending list of powerful men who have done horrible things to women. A review of the film “Tickling Giants” by Flollywood’s Larry Hott. Talking birds with Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple. And congratulating our Rabbi, Justin David on his humanitarian award.

Will Massachusetts Put Higher Ed on Higher Ground?

11.28 Max Paige guest hosts with State Senate President Stan Rosenberg and another installment of the Comedy Quiz on body language.

Is There Finally A Cultural Shift Going On?

11.27.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks Trump, Northampton’s inclusivity problems and the paradigm shift.

Poems & Memoirs

11/17: Jennifer Levi, the lawyer who just won the case challenging Trump’s transgender military ban; “NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson and poet and memoirist Richard Hoffman; Alison Morse, Director of Circles for Jewish Living, with Eveline MacDougall of Amandla Chorus fame –live in our studio!– give us a taste of this weekend’s story and musical confab.

Young@Heart Mash-Up V!

11/16: The Young@Heart Chorus in our studio –an amazing preview of this weekend’s musical mash-up; Tom Countryman, 35 year diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State under John Kerry for International Security and Non-Proliferation, on North Korea and threat of nuclear war; the Revered and the Rabbi on Sunday’s interfaith celebration of the new Hampshire Mosque.

Tidewater

11/15: Cool films with Larry Hott and filmmaker Roger Sorkin creator of “Tidewater”—on how rising sea levels threaten the United States.

Buzz Marketing Bill Newman on MSNBC

11/14: The MSNBC Rachel Maddow/Lawrence O’Donnell handoff with Newman (Monte tells you the real scoop); Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US, on Roy Moore and sexual predators in government; Emily Curro from the Academy of Music and actor and author Jack Frye on “Einstein,” coming to the Academy; PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts ) founder Max Page on how Trump’s tax bill will cost students, colleges, and universities; Baron Wormser, whose new novel is “Tom O’ Vietnam” previews his Friday reading at Amherst Books

Lawrence O’Donnell & The Campaign That Changed American Politics

11/13: Lawrernce O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word” and author of “Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics;
Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Michael Klare, on North Korea and the possibility of nuclear war and the upcoming town hall/public forum Wednesday evening at Northampton High School on this topic: Shawn Askinosie, author of “Meaningful Work: A Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling and Feed Your Soul.”

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