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).
Before The Vote/After
3/21: Jane Yolen on “Before the Vote [and] After;” Barbara Diamond Goldin on “The Passover Cowboy;” “Your State U “ on the disappearing $30 million at UMass Boston; and a make-you-pee-in-your-pants funny “Comedy Quiz” on Summer Camp with the Ha Has.
Rise Up Singing
3/20: Serious Play and the return of “The Endgame Project” with Sheryl Stoodley and Rand Foerster; Elinor Lipman “On Turpentine Lane;” and a special edition of “Black in the Valley.”
A Saint Paddy’s Serenade
3/17: Dana Warren, age 9, a capella, sings the Irish National Anthem to celebrate St. Patrick’s day; also, District Attorney Dave Sullivan, Judge Michael Ryan, and political activist Billy O’Riordan on the prosecution and execution of Daley and Halligan in Northampton, refugees, and the death penalty; Attorney Terry Nagel on the upcoming Trump tax protest; Scott Coen and pitching for the Red Sox.
Sanctuary in the Streets
3/16: Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Margaret Sawyer, Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center’s Rose Bookbinder on sanctuary; Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of “Lowed Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy.”
The Jewish Film Festival Returns
3/15: The return of the wandering Jewish Film Festival with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott and JFF’s Deb Krivoy and Carlin Treitsh; Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach, authors of “The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone;” Photographer Pablo Delano joins Natalia Munoz;
What Should UMass Basketball Do Post-Kellogg?
3/14: Max Page on UMass firing its basketball coach Derek Kellogg; and the basketball coach’s salary being over $1 million/year; L.A. Kauffman, author of “Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism ;” Mary Jennings Hegar, author of “Shoot Like A Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front;” Dave Hayes, the Weather Nut, on today’s storm; and a Fishwrap on Trumpcare and the CBO.
Trump’s (Josh) Silver Lining?
3/13: Josh Silver, C.E.O. of represent. Us, on Trump, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, voting, money in politics, despair and hope; Liz Friedman on the now bright prospects of Massachusetts enacting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
You Are Not Alone
3/10: New York times best-selling author and illustrator Mo Willems on “You Are Not Alone;” sculptor Harriet Diamond on “Driven from Their Homes,” a diaspora in miniature, and Judson Brown from the Valley Syrian Relief Committee, on that conflict and the suffering.
For Such A Time As This
3/9: Rabbi Riqi Kosovske; Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Peter Ives, and Rev.-Rabbi (sort of) Monte Belmonte on Purim, the book of Esther, anti-Semitism, threats to Jewish Community Centers and Donald Trump, and Israel’s ban of BDS supporters; professor Adam Alter, author of “Irresistible: the Rise of Addictive technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked.”
The Day Without Women
3/8: We celebrate International Women’s Day with Code Pink’s Susan Lantz and new American citizen and refugee from Burma Moo Kho Paw; Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on Oscar- nominated documentaries; Natalia Munoz and Masslive and Republican newspaper reporter Elizabeth Roman.
