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).
I Want To Ride My Bicycle
5/17: The Big Bicycle Breakfast! Live from the Court House lawn with Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, Weatherperson Brian Lapis, Smith College professor James Lowenthal and other bike luminaries.
Scibak In The U.S.S.R.
5/16: Representative John Scibak on Your State U. with host Max Page; our monthly “Comedy Quiz” with contestants Pam Victor and Laura Patrick of the Ha Has and Monte Belmonte and Quiz Master Kevin McVeigh. This is about either capitals or capitols. Newman keeps score—sort of.
Sen. Warren & Newman in Amherst
5/15: Sen Elizabeth Warren on Republicans and Donald Trump; best-selling author Dennis Lehane on ”Since We Fell;” Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution with Paul Jablon, Doug Selwyn and David Greenberg; “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and Dr. Marcus Ware, Chair, Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee.
Still Talking To The Wal
5/12: Sprawl Busters founder Al Norman, filmmaker Steve Alves & attorney Tom Lesser on the fight against Walmart setting up in Greenfield –the 25 year saga continues! Then, John Bonifaz, nationwide leader on the demand for an impeachment investigation on Trump.
The Pipeline Protests Persist
5/9: Katy Eisman, CEO of MassPLAN, the PipeLine Awareness Network, on civil disobedience and the protest against cutting down a lot of the Otis State Forest in order to install a fracked gas pipeline; law professor and attorney Harris Freeman on The Amherst Sanctuary ordinance, which TM approved last night; SOS: Jim Levy, on how everything is coming up roses—also a lot of other plants and flowers and trees –just in time for Mother’s Day; Lucius Collette, from the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative, author of a new and disturbing report on solitary confinement.
The New Nuclear Arms Race
5/8: Dr. Ira Helfand, Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and founder of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, on North Korea and the new nuclear arms race; Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans on the future of hate; Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of represent.US, on Trump, Republicans, healthcare, and buying elections.
Traitors
5/11: Nathaniel Philbrick, best-selling author of “Valiant Ambition,” on George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and Donald Trump; then Rev .Peter Ives, Pastor Stephanie Smith, pastor for Cathedral in the Night,” and Haymarket owner Peter Simpson on the homeless and the hungry in Northampton.
Keeping Northampton Fed
5/10: Nathaniel Philbrick, best-selling author of “Valiant Ambition,” on George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and Donald Trump; then Rev .Peter Ives, Pastor Stephanie Smith, pastor for Cathedral in the Night,” and Haymarket owner Peter Simpson on the homeless and the hungry in Northampton.
