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).
China, Japan and Nuclear War
9/8: Richard McGregor, author of “Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of the U.S. Power in the Pacific Century;” Penny Burke, Executive Director of the Northampton Center for the Arts, on moving to a new home and chalking the sidewalks.
Perspectives From Inside Vietnam
9/7: Lady Borton, Vietnam peace activist, and Don Chevannes, Vietnam vet, panelists at upcoming showing of “The Vietnam War,” share their perspectives.
When The War Comes Home
9/6: Marie Waechter, from public television for western New England — WGBY, previews Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” at the Academy of Music; and Jessie Jimison, a panelist following the film, discusses her father’s Vietnam war-induced PTSD. Then Heidi Nortonsmith, Executive Director of the Northampton Survival Center, Mary Hamel, co-owner of Glendale Ridge Vineyard, and Sheila Coon, founder of Hot Oven Cookies, preview the upcoming confab at the Vineyard.
UMass Football Loses Again
9/5: Max Page on two big punts: the UMass. football program and Commonwealth Commitment-so called—to making higher ed. affordable; Hampshire College President and astronomer Salman Hameed on the eclipse, the Voyager, and new climate-change denier head of NASA; Ricky Greenwald, founder and director of Northampton based Trauma Institute.
A Constitutional Lesson On Impeachment
MHC professor of government Christopher Pyle explores presidential pardons, impeachment, and removal.
The Lord Spoke
8/31: Three reverends and a rabbi walk into a radio statio (ok, one reverend by phone) and decide to bless bicycles, and one revered says to another—you’ll want to hear what—with Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Laura Everett, and Rev. Sarah Buteux. Also, a second wave of the Northampton Renaissance? Goggins Real Estate CEO Pat Goggins tells us how and why.
Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra Moves Into Their New Home
8/30: Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra founder and director Peter Blanchette returns to our studio. (We only want to do once in our lives something as stupendous as Peter playng his archguitar.)
How Diverse Is UMass Amherst?
8/29: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Professor Max Page discusses the new report on how and why affirmative action has failed to make the grade — at UMass and across the country.
How Bad Will Trumps Trans-Ban Get?
8/28: The LGBTJPJM Sorrell analyzes Trump’s trans ban; author Joan Brady, discusses “Alger Hiss: Framed: A New Look at the Case That Made Nixon Famous” and draws disturbing parallels to propaganda from Washington today.
Potholes, The Planet & Plutocracy
8.25.17 Represent.US CEO Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with Hamp Councilor Ryan O’Donnell, UMass Climate Researcher Michael Rollins, and author Matt Stoler on the problem of monopoly. Plus Inside/Out with Betsy Stone.
