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).
Wooden Bowls Filling Empty Bowls
10/26: Congressman Jim McGovern and Sudan expert (and wood turner) Professor Eric Reeves on hunger here in the Valley and genocide in the Sudan; “Your State U.” with Max Page and Richard Rabinowitz, author of “Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past.”
Weed & Warrants & Wendell
10/25: State Rep. Aaron Vega, Northampton attorney Dick Evans, and Apollo Campagnone and Patti Scutari of Wendell –victims of the recent state police helicopter raid on marijuana plants (which were being grown legally) at their home in Wendell– discuss Ballot Question 4—ending the marijuana prohibition; NYT best-selling author Jane Yolen on the upcoming evening of political poetry.
A Valley of Immigrants
10/24: Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans, contributor to and editor of, “Words in Transit: Stories of Immigrants.” Also, Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US,
The Opiod Crisis Continues
10/21: Northwestern District Attorney Dave Sullivan; Kimball Taylor, author of “The Coyote’s Bicycle” on immigration and human trafficking; Robbie Leppzer on his new movie “Power Struggle” – about the fight to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuke.
Cooperation
10/20: It’s Co-op Month, and today is our annual co-op show with Adam Trott from the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives, Andy Toomajian from PV Squared, Rochelle Prunty, G.M. of River Valley Co-op; and Angie Facey, G.M. of Our Family Farms, including a special edition of “The Reverend and the Rabbi.”
“Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome”
10/19: Laurie Millman, Tommy Twilight, poets, teachers and students from the Center for New Americans; George Lakey, author of “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right and How We Can, Too;” plus a special edition of “NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio.”
Gravity Waves
10/18: The return of the Sci-tech café – breaking news from outer space (seriously!) with Smith professor Gary Felder and MHC professor Kathy Aidala; “Away with the Faeries” with NYT best-selling author Jane Yolen and fiddler Donna Hebert; the Comedy Quiz with the founders of the Has Has and Jedi grammarian and punctuation expert Joan Holliday! (or is it ? or both)
Don’t Call Us “Minorities”
10.17.16 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks Trump, Amherst Schools and bringing diversity to academia.
Rad Women
10.14.16 Kate Schatz with her-as of yet to be announced-NY Times best-seller “Rad Women Worldwide”. Plus, Baylen Linnekin, author of “Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Out Food System More Sustainable;” Kim Loughlin, Director of Admissions at The Bement School on the upcoming Independent School Fair; Eva Fierst—what happening at OUR Museum.
It’s All Over Now, Question Two
10/13: Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni – Save Our Public Schools, NO on question 2; Nicholson Baker, author of “Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids.” A special edition of “The Reverend and the Rabbi.” (Oh, and we had just found out Dylan won the Noble Prize)
