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).
Sister Resisters
6/23: Professor Janie Victoria Ward, co-author of “Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women on Campus;” then “The Reverend and the Rabbi” with Rev. Carole Bull and Rabbi Justin David.
ChoroFest
6/22: LIVE in the studio –Alexandre Ribeiro (clarinet), Roberta Valente (pandeiro), Douglas Lora (guitar) – they are AMAZING– get a taste of the this weekend’s Choro concert at the Academy of Music—along with festival organizer Andrew Lawrence. Then, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman. It’s Pride Month and we celebrate.
The Spy Who Knew Too Much
6/21: Howard Blum, author of “The Spy Who Knew Too Much;” then, come play along –it’s our monthly Comedy quiz—the topic is The Beatles.
What have we learned from the drug lab scandal?
6/20: Attorney Luke Ryan on the western Massachusetts drug lab scandal that he exposed and the $14million settlement announced last week
A Peaceful Transition of Teacher Power
6.17.22 Buz Eisenberg guest stars and is joined by the outgoing and incoming Presidents of the Mass Teachers Association, Merrie Najimy and Max Page, respectively. Plus State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on a new mental health bill just unanimously passed in the House. And ArtBeat with Donnabelle Cassis with her guests Scott Cuomo and Chelsea Granger, on painting ghosts.
Meet The Cuban Ambassador to the U.S.
6/16: The Ambassador from Cuba to the United States, Lianys Torres Rivera, on many aspects of U.S.-Cuban relations; UMass. Labor Center Director, Cedric de Leon, on this week’s SJC’s decision on Uber and Lyft drivers; Rev. Michael McSherry and Rabbi Justin David on disparity of power between progressive religious institutions and those on the right.
Django in Djune returns to Northampton!
6/15: Django in June with Jack Soref, Duved Dunayevsky, and Daniel Garlitsky –WOW!!
Then, Sports Man! With Scott Coen.
Flower Power Justice
6/14: Bloomsday! With Literacy Project E.D. Judith Roberts and extraordinary artist Rosie Caine; expunging and sealing marijuana records with Community Legal Aid attorneys Jen Dieringer and Alyssa Golden, marijuana consultant Ezra Parzybok and attorney and principal in Flower Power Growers, John Stoberski.
Delivering a balanced budget for Holyoke
6/13: Mayors Monday with Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia; Juneteenth – on Black in the Valley –with Carlie Tartakov, Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Anika Lopes and Amilcar Shabazz.
“We Refuse to Forget”
6.9 – Caleb Gayle, author of “We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity and Power;” Salman Hameed on breaking news from outer space; Rabbi Justin David (Congregation B’nai Israel and Rev. Averill Elizabeth Blackburn(Florence Congregational Church) on remembering.
