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 First Bill Newman Show Under President (Gulp) Trump

1/23: Josh Silver , CEO of represent.US, on the beginnings of the Trump presidency; Kate Hennessey author of a new book about the founder of the radical Catholic Worker and candidate for sainthood “Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of [her] Grandmother.”

Hear Rachel Maddow’s Speech at Smith College

Former Pioneer Valley radio host and current host of The Rachel Maddow on MSNBC gave a post inaugural talk with…

Robotic

1/20: The Supreme Judicial Court decision on the Massachusetts drug lab scandal with ACLU of Massachusetts attorney Adriana Lafaille; robots at the Sci-Tech Cafe with MHC physics prof. Kathy Aidala and UMass College of Information and Computer Sciences prof. Joydeep Biswas; Inside/Out with UMass Museum of Contemporary Art curator Eva Fierst.

What’s in a Name?

1/19: The Turners Falls High School controversy over the school “mascot” (a Native American) with Rhonda Anderson, Laurie Leyshon and Amalia FourHawks; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, Professors Carlie Tartakov and Gary Tartakov on this weekend marches and protests.

Future of UMass Football

1/18: Max Page and UMass Athletic Director Ryan Bamford on the future (or not?) of UMass football; state rep Aaron Vega joins Natalia Munoz on Vaya con Munoz.

In These Dark Times…We Laugh

1/17: Jane Yolen with Rich Michelson on “Before the Election/After (the Election);” Sheryl Stoodley and Robin Doty from Serious Play and acclaimed poet Doug Anderson on “In These Dark Times, Let There Be Song;” and the Comedy Quiz Show with the Ha Has Laura Patrick & Pam Victor and Quizmaster Heidi Nortonsmith.

Still Standing with Standing Rock

1/16: On MLK Day: Stand with Standing Rock with Laurie Leyshon, Rhonda Anderson, Anthony Metting Tallow and Kandi Mosset; a special edition of Black in the Valley with Carlie Tartakov, Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and Irma McCluarin.

Driving Around A Divided America

1/13: Sarah Van Gelder, author of “The Revolution where You Live;” Jeff Napolitano, Director of the Western Massachusetts Office of the American Friends Service Committee.

Remembering MLK

1/12: Reverends Peter Ives, Jacquelyne Smith-Crooks, and Barbara Headley, and Rabbi, Justin David reflect on the legacy and importance today of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Sai Suryanarayanan, author of “Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health.”

Race in America

1/11: We preview “After Orlando” with Egg Tooth Productions producer Linda McInerney, director Josh Platt, & actors Kent Alexander and Rachel Katz; filmmaker Larry Hott on the O.J. Simpson trial documentary; Natalia Munoz on Obama and Puerto Rico.

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