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 Bill Newman Show June 15 2017

6/15: Nancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America;” Bloomsday with
The Literacy Project’s Judith Roberts; exploring Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” with the reverend and the rabbis.

The Bill Newman Show June 14 2017

6/14: Django in June live in the studio. This is amazing.

Turning to the Page on the state Constitutional Convention

PHENOM founder Max Page on the state constitutional convention; YA author Lisa Papademetriou on kids marching to a different drummer—her new novel is “Apartment 1986;” Sports Man! Scott Coen on empires, evil and otherwise, in baseball and basketball.

Josh Silver stole our reporter!

Josh Silver, CEO of Represent. US,  on corruption in government, money in politics,  and grass roots movements; Lois Ahrens, Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project on proposed legislation to allow some moms, convicted of  non-violent crimes, who are the primary caretakers for their kids, to not go to jail.

Is This The New Watergate Or Is It Worse?

Mount Holyoke College Professor of Government Chris Pyle on Trump, Comey, and Mueller, investigations, impeachment, and governmental secrecy;  Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone with  Mark Guglielmo on “Cuba in Transition” and Silas Kopf on the Running of the Bulls in Easthampton.

What’s Coming With Comey?

Mitch Prinstein, author of “Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World.” Reverend Peter Ives and the CEO of Tapestry Health, Cheryl Zoll, on reproductive rights in the era of Trump.

Cops In Court

6/7: Northampton attorney and cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights Luke Ryan on the law suit he has been litigating against western Mass. Rev. Scott Lively, zealous advocate of the kill the gays bill in Uganda; iconic Valley musician Johnny Memphis on “Rarities”– his band’s new c.d. release and the party to celebrate.

I’d Like To Visit Uranus

6/6: Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed joins Olivia Koski and Jana Grcevich to explore their “Vacation Guide to the Solar System,” produced by the Intergalactic Travel Bureau; UMass professor Max Page on the Fair Share Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution (a.k.a. the billionaires’ tax).

Listen!

6/5: Leda Schubert, author of “Listen! How Pete Seeger got America Singing;” Dr. Marty Wohl and Lisa Papademitriou preview the Northampton Education Foundation Show Case; climate change and social justice on “Black in the Valley” with Rev-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov.

Kill It To Save It.

6/2: Corey Dolgon, author of “Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph Over Democracy;” a special edition of “Inside/Out.”

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