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).

From Throwing Stones to More Hopeful Tones

9/28: Palestinian musician and former combatant, Ramzi Aburedwan, performing in Northampton tonight, with us in studio today; Eric Thomas Chester, author of “The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era.”

Debate 1: Who Won?

9/27: Political Director of the Hillary Clinton campaign, Amanda Renteria, gives us insight and perspective on last night’s debate; attorney Harry Miles –it’s our NCIS (Northampton Criminal Investigative Service) segment — gives us perspective and insight into the ongoing, in Hampshire Superior Court, Cara Rintala murder trial; Sali Oyugi (in Nairobi, Kenya) and her husband, local author and artist David Rowinski (in studio), share her great NGO work and the school program she has founded in Nairobi.

The Bitch Is Back (And So Is Newman)

9/26 Bill Newman Show: Author, poet and formerly incarcerated man R Dwayne Betts speaks on his history and upcoming talk at UMass, and best-selling author and editor Cathi Hanauer on her new book, “The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser and (Getting) Happier.” Also, Al Williams on the Northampton Film Festival.

The Ride To Provide

9.23.16 Emmy-Award winning filmmaker, Larry Hott, guests hosts and talks “The Ride To Provide”. Plus, Brink Thorne- one of the founders of Thornes Market place, a preview of SciTech Cafe and Inside Out with Betsy Stone.
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Viking Economics

9.22.16 Rev. Peter Ives guest hosts and talks Scandinavian economics with author George Lakey

Hinds Sight

9.21.16 Josh Silver guest hosts with State Senate candidate Adam Hinds, political wonk Bill Scher and Amanda Herman from Live Art Magazine

The Red Guitar

9.20.16 Jeff Napolitano guests hosts and talks with John Sheldon and Sheryl Stoodley about “The Red Guitar” at The Shea Theater in Turners Falls. Plus the Comedy Quiz with The Ha-Has and retired Judge Bertha Josephson.

Trevor’s Take on The Amherst School Comittee Controversies

9.19.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks about women in prison and what’s been going on outside the headlines with the Amherst School Comittee.

Broken Promesa

9/15: Puerto Rican activist Melissa Vargas; “NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson; then, the Rev. & the Rabbi.

Recent Headlines

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