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).

Prison Justice & Food Justice

8.12 Buz Eisenberg guests hosts with Bernadette Rabuy from Prison Policy Initiatve plus another edition of Vaya Con Munoz about food justice issues in Springfield.

David Jones Rocks!

8.11.15 Not that David Jones and not that kinda rocks, but the Amherst College professor does study geology and the Earth’s first mass extinction (fun)! Plus Katy Eiseman with the latest on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline,

El Salvador’s Las 17

8.10 The Bill Newman Jeff Napolitano Show looks at an undereported story about 17 imprisoned El Salvadoran Women. Plus commemorating the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan and their new nuclear disaster.

Presidents Day on the Newman Show!

8.6.15  State Senate President Stan Rosenberg and Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni. Then we forecast with 22 News StormTeam…

Remembering Nagasaki, & Vaya con Munoz

8.5.15  Susan Southard, author of “Nagasaki – Life After Nuclear War”; Jeff Napolitano, Exec. Director of the American Friends Service…

Pirates and Improv

8/4: Ahoy mateys, it’s Treasure Island according to  Long John Silver, Billy Bones, Black Dog, Blind Pew, & Jim Hawkins,…

Space, Jazz, and Breastfeeding

8.3.15 Cheryl Latuner, author of “Baby At My Breast: Reflections of a Nursing Mother”; Hampshire College professor/astronomer Salman Hameed on…

Will Pot Be Legal in MA in 2017?

7.29 We take one toke over the line with Terry Franklin, board member of Bay State Repeal. And a new edition of ‘Vaya Con Munoz’ with Natalia Munoz.

Recent Headlines

3 hours ago in Trending, World

Living hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released as part of ceasefire in Gaza

All 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel walked free Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that decimated the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

3 days ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

3 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

3 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.

3 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track "Not Like Us" were opinion.