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).

Josh Silver on Sexual Health, Politics, and Islam

Guest host Josh Silver talks sexual health with Baystate Midwifery Center, the politics of millennials with International Business Times Youth Affairs reporter Julia Glum, plus the regular segment with Rev. Peter Ives.

Jeff Napolitano on Politics, Poetry & Pipelines

4.6- Guest host Jeff Napolitano covers Bernie Sanders’s big Wisconsin primary win. Former Northampton poet laureate Leslea Newman reads from her new book with Rev. Andrea Ayvazian of Haydenville Congregational Church. Peace activist Paki Wieland on the latest pipeline protests in New York.

Dr. Hameed, Cool Films & Your State U

4.5- Today’s show hosted by Natalia Munoz, with Dr. Salman Hameed, Cool Films with Larry Hott, and Your State U with Max Page with Massachusetts Teacher’s Union President Barbara Madeloni.

Labor of Love

4.4- Buz Eisenberg guest hosts for Bill, speaking with labor organizer Pat Greenfield, the former Director of the UMass Labor Center, and now adjunct professor. Also, Buz talks with Monica Green, Treasurer of the Northampton High School PTO. Black in the Valley honors the anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. with Dr. Irma McClaurin, distinguished UMass alumnae.

Thoreau Inspires Pipeline Civil Disobedience

4.1.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts with Will Elwell and Rev. Kate Stevens about the Thoreau-inspired cabin built on the pipeline route and the what may be inevitable civil disobedience.

Peace & Justice

3.31- Natalia Munoz guest hosts as Reverend Peter Ives speaks with Manuel Pintado member of PHENOM, Jobs with Justice, and of the First Churches Peace and Justice Committee.

Poetry With Purpose

Natalia Muñoz guest host and talks with Northampton Poet Laureate, Patick Donnelly, about his event for A Positive Place

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

3.29.16- Josh Silver sits in for Bill Newman speaking with Jon Ronson on his new book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, plus the Western Wind Choir.

Has The Sun Gone Down on The Arab Spring?

3.28.16 Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with Dr. Muqtedar Khan (University of Delaware) about the Arab Uprising 5 years on. Plus Newsweek reporter, Jessica Firger on how alcohol is not actually going to make you healthier. And Jeanne Hoose and Marty Wahl from the Northampton Education Foundation Adult Spelling Bee.

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