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).
Resistance Hero
4/28: Women’s March co-chair Linda Sarsour on racial justice, civil rights, immigration, Donald Trump and resistance. Poet James Heflin on his new collection.
Young@Heart@35
4/27: The Young@Heart Chorus turns 35! Join the party with Bob Cilman, Ken Maiuri, Sylvia Johnson, Helen Boston, Teresa Lorenco and Beda Palanco; then, Reed Schimmelfing and Vicki Elson from Represent.Us on Western Massachusetts cities and towns leading in the fight against money corrupting our electoral politics.
The Most Famous Poet In America
4/26: Poets Laureates Robert Pinsky and Rich Michelson; then “Life in the 413” —a preview with Sam Rush, Hillary Price, Meryl Cohn and Monte Belmonte.
Senator Stan
4/25: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on The Safe Communities Act, the budget, marijuana, and funding for UMass. Professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on nearby life in outer space.
Why Is Anti-Semitism on The Rise?
4/24 Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans on anti-Semitism—the topic of his upcoming lecture series at the Yiddish Book Center; LIVE IN THE STUDIO—THE NORTHAMPTONES – previewing their concert this weekend for the Manna Soup Kitchen.
Pipeline Returns?
4/21: Katie Eisman, C.E.O. of Mass PLAN (The Massachusetts PipeLine Awareness Network) and PLAN for the Northeast, with breaking news about (un)natural gas pipelines about to be constructed here in western Massachusetts; MHC professors of physics Kathy Aidala and Kerstin Nordstrom preview the upcoming Sci-tech Café on totally cool engineering and reverse innovations.
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
4/20: Pulitzer Prize Nominee Susan Bordo, author of “The Destruction of Hillary Clinton.” A special “Revered and the Rabbi” on bicycling to D.C. to fight for policies to combat climate change.
The Single Largest Dismissal of Wrongful Convictions in U.S. History
4/19: Sheryl Stoodley and Robin Doty from Serious Play! preview “BLANK.” Then Henry Beard, author of “How to Succeed in Business and Politics and Everything Else Without Really Trying with ‘SpIn glish’— the Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately deceptive Language.”
