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).

This Is America Now

11/9: Election reflections with Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight; PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page, MTA President Barbara Madeloni, political activist and radio show host Natalia Munoz, and Mount Holyoke College Professor of Latino/a Studies and UMass History Dept. Feinberg Lecture Series presenter David Hernandez.

The End Is Nigh

11/8: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg—so many (ballot) questions—here are some answers; Todd Ford. Exec. Dir., Hampshire Council of Governments on HCOG and the upcoming unveiling of Greg Stone’s last work; then we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Perugia Press with the press’s founder Susan Kan and incoming editor and director Rebecca Hart Olander on a special edition of “NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio)” with Rich Michelson.

On Prophecy In Politics

11/7: Yes on Question 4 with Atty Richard Evans; Re-Prom with Marty Wohl and Michaela O’Brien; Black in the Valley with special guest Rev. Dr. Barbara Headley.

President Of The Fifth Grade?

11/4: “Grace For President!” with Paint Box Theater’s Tom McCabe, Jasmine Jiles, Callum LaFrance, & Linda Tardif; Cider Days in Franklin County with Al Sax from the Cider Days Committee and Steve Gougeon, owner of Bear Swamp Orchard; Lynn Ferro, Project Coordinator of the Drug Abuse Task Force of the Northwestern DA’s Office.

Eleanor After The War

11/3: Best-selling author, historian Blanche Wiesen Cook on “Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After;” The Reverend (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David) along with the NPP (Research Director of the National Priorities Project, Lindsay Koshgarian).

If There’s A Bustle In Your Hedgerow

11/2: PHENOM (Public Higher Education of Massachusetts) founder Max Page—his personal opinions on ballot questions 2 & 5 & a UMass football victory –a very expensive won (sorry, terrible pun-moving on); gallery owner and author Rich Michelson on “Fascinating” Leonard Nimoy along with erstwhile poet laureate Rich Michelson on political poetry; and poet Hannah Fries on her book launch of “Little Terrarium” at Emily Dickinson’s house.

What Made Tap & Dye Die?

11/2: Historian Tom Goldscheider on “What Happened to Greenfield’s Tool Industry;” astronomer and professor Salman Hameed on colonizing Mars.

RE: EMAILS, CLINTON & THE F.B.I.

10/31: Attorney John Pucci, former U.S. Attorney & head of Western Massachusetts Office, on Friday’s FBI disclosure of HRC’s emails; Liz Larson and Irv Rhodes on “Yes on 5,” the ballot question on new elementary schools in Amherst; Seth Lepore & Linda McInerney on “The Trump Show;” Bob Cilman on the upcoming Young @ Heart concert and intergenerational mash-up

To Sir, With Love

10/28: Professor James Stillwaggon on “Filmed School” –his new book about how film portrays teachers — “Desire, transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy;” Liz Friedman, Program Director of MotherWoman, Northampton City Councilors Alisa Klein and Gina Louise-Sciarra on the Pregnant Woman Fairness Resolution in Northampton; David Little, Director of the Mead—Amherst College’s—Art Museum, our special guest with Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone.

#exonerateethel

10/27: Rosenberg Fund for Children founder (and younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) Robert Meeropol and RFC Executive Director Jenn Meeropol on the campaign to exonerate Ethel; Peter Steinberg, President of the Board of Mak’hela, the Jewish Chorus of Western Massachusetts, And Naomi Tannen, board member of Manna Soup Kitchen on the upcoming concert (and fundraiser) to celebrate 30 years of the Manna Soup kitchen.

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