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).
We’re Off To See The Wizard
7/5: The Wizard of Oz visits the studio with minions and witches. Them the wizard of UMass and higher education, Max Page. And then the wizardry of Donald Trump with Natalia Munoz.
Don’t Bogart That Joint Legislation
6/29: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg takes the high road on marijuana and also discusses the effect of Trumpcare on Massachusetts.
Is This Music Making Me Fat?
6/28: Charles Spence, author and researcher –head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford– on “Gastrophysics: the New Science of Eating.” Also, we fishwrap with Natalia Munoz.
The Forgotten Men in Guantanamo
6/27: Sherrill Hogen from Wintess against Torture and Paki Wieland from No More Guantanamos speak about the prisoners at GTMO still detained indefinitely and without trial and the demonstrations in the Valley tomorrow to remember them. Then, astronomer Salman Hameed on the universe and Wilco
Baystate Nurses Strike
6/26: The Nurses LOCKED OUT by management at Baystate Franklin County Medical Center speak out. Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US, speaks up about why Democrats keep losing.
How Many Black Men Need To Die At The Hands of The Police For Things To Change?
6/22: Bill’s thoughts on the latest killer cop to get away and Silverthorne Theater’s Josh Platt and Toby Bercovici on “The Stupid F******* Bird.”
The Next Mayor of Easthampton?
6.21.17 Nicole LaChapelle, candidate for Mayor of Easthampton; Anne Helen Petersen, author of “Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud;” and Vaya con Munoz.
Keeping It VERY Classy On The Fishwrap
6/20: Our classiest “Fishwrap” ever—we explore the subtleties imbedded in the days headline story in the DHG on farting in yoga class—we told you in was classy.
(so many terrible jokes, so little time!) Later in the show, our monthly Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has. The questions are EASY!! The answers—not so much!!
The One-Eyed Judge
6/19: NYT best-selling author, western Mass. federal judge Michael Ponsor, on his new novel “The One-Eyed Judge.”
The Bill Newman Show June 16 2017
6/16: “Cuba in Transition” with Mark Guglielmo, Pablo Yglesias, Aristides Lima, and Maricel Lucero. Then, a joyous new season—here’s a preview –for New Century Theater with NCT Producing Director Sam Rush and
playwrights Eric Henry Sanders and Ellen Wittlinger.
