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).
Save Our Schools!
6/20: After our fishwrap: Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni previews this week’s community meeting and the Save Our Public Schools campaign; PHENOM founder Max Page on fights at UMass; “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and activist and candidate for state representative, Vira Douangmany Cage.
School To Prison Pipeline
6/17: LGBT JP JM Sorell on Orlando and Northampton; Jason Fay, co-editor of “Dilemmas of Educational Ethics,” on the school-to-prison pipeline, social justice, and charter schools; PHENOM founder Max Page on pink slips just handed out to 1/3rd of UMass Boston faculty, the trustees’ fossil fuel divestment vote, and upcoming fight here to save our public schools; then live in the studio –a preview of the AMAZING Django in June concerts this weekend; plus kids and improv this weekend in Easthampton with Happier FAMILY Comedy Show starring, and with us in the studio, Laura Patrick and Sally Ekus.
“What Screams You Hear Are Mine”
6/16: “What Screams You Hear Are Mine” with PVPA grads playwright Annalise Cain and actor Mia Urgaft (opening Friday); Rev. Peter Ives and Amherst College’s Molly Mead on their then-called radical political roots influenced personally by father Daniel Berrigan, an American icon who died recently at age 94.
Bloomsday!
6/15: Celebrate Bloomsday!! We do (tomorrow 7:00 Greenfield—Arts Block—Don’t Miss It) with one of the “Wilde Irish Women” -Rosemary Caine — and Literacy Project Executive Director Judith Roberts, and veteran Benny Dancey; then New Century Theatre —we preview Steven Dietz’s “Yankee Tavern” (and its ghosts and rats) with, the director (Gina Kaufman) one of the actor- stars, & NCT’s Producing-Director (Sam Rush) then, Natalia Munoz on guns, congress, laws and Orlando.
Author Interviews & Honoring Orlando
6/14: Today is the pub date for Walter Shapiro’s new book “Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer;” then Mehlaqa Samdani, founder and Director of Western Mass.- based Critical Connections on Orlando and LGBTQ-Muslim relations; Western Mass. AFSC Director Jeff Napolitano on local vigils and ceremonies on the Orlando massacre; James (Jim) Hoggan, author of “I’m Right and You’re An Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up.”
Book Reviews & Downtown Sounds
6/13: Best-selling NYT author Jason Gay on “Little Victories: A Sportswriter’s Notes on winning at Life;” Greg Jobin-Leeds, author of “When We Fight We Win;” Joe Blumenthal, founder and owner of Downtown Sounds previews this weekend’s upcoming 40th birthday extravaganza celebrating this local acclaimed store; and then Django in June is here now— its 13th year—two concerts this weekend—tickets are going fast.
Puerto Rico Takeover?
6/10: For your consideration: should Amherst raze its neighborhood schools?—Town Meeting members criticize the plan; LGBT JP JM Sorrel on exporting hate; Vaya con Munoz –Natalia Munoz, just back from Puerto Rico, reports on conditions on the Island, the not-bankruptcy plan and the Supreme Court’s pronouncements.
Innocent & In Prison for 26 Years.
6/9: Springfield attorney John Thompson, featured prominently in last Sunday’s New York Times, on wrongful convictions in Massachusetts and how the state is offering his client, an exonerated former inmate, NOTHING after keeping him locked up unjustly for 27 years; Northampton City Councilor Marianne LaBarge and CDH’s Marilyn Richards on the upcoming Fabric of Hope Fashion and Hair Show; Rev Peter Ives and WHMP Morning show host Bob Flaherty on growing up Catholic and having a brief stint with Evangelicals.
Hillary. Hott. And Higgs Boson
6/8: Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott is joined by professor and astronomer Salman Hameed who together are suffering (enjoying immensely, actually) Particle Fever; best-selling author Ryan North on his new adventure book “Romeo and/or Juliet”—too much fun!) – all following our Fishwrap.
Hillary Wins? And How To Escape A Black Hole
6/7: We Fishwrap about the AP calling it for Hillary; then professor and PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network Of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on $ & out-of-state students at UMass—we explore the recent controversy. Hampshire professor (& Five College Professor of astronomy) Salman Hameed on Hillary Clinton’s promise to disclose government files on alleged extraterrestrials and today’s NYT feature article on how we can escape black holes in the universe.
