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).

Taking A Stan On The Pipleine

9/10: Massachusetts State Senate President Stan Rosenberg; then a local and national treasure, best selling children’s book author and illustrator Mo Willems.

Men With Hats

9/9: Judge Michael Ryan on Cooley-Dickinson—yes, the man the hospital is named for and why you haven’t hear about him and what you should do about that! Wear a hat—seriously. Then “Cool Films with Larry Hott,” the Emmy Award-winning film maker.

Pipelines and Chalk Talk

9/8: Katiy Eiseman, Ex. Dir., MassPLAN, PipeLine Awareness Network, updates us on that frackin’ pipeline; Claudia Lefko,
Founder of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exhange and archguitarist Peter Blanchette on “Baghdad to Bach;” Northampton Center for the Arts Exec Dir. Penny Burke on chalking Northampton.

Autism Explored

9.1 Steve Silberman on “Neuro Tribes”, the history and presence of autism.  Plus astronomer and professor Salman Hameed on the…

Represent Us!

8.31 Political Gold with Josh Silver. Black in the Valley with Rev- Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov.

Missives From Mumia

9/2: Noelle Hanrahan, founder and producer of Prison Radio; Dr. Dana Suskind, author of “Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain;” and Vaya con Munoz !

What did the Redcoats think of the Revolution?

8/28: Pulitzer-award finalist, Nick Bunker, author of “An Empire on the Edge,” the Brits view of the American Revolution. Then, political activist Paki Wieland.

Paul Mark & Handsome

8.27.15 2nd Berkshire Representative, Paul Mark, joins guest host Buz Eisenberg. As well as our regular The Reverend & The Rabbi segment with Peter Ives and Justin David.

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