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).
The First Kennedys
4/26: Neal Thompson, author of “The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty;” Sex Matters! With Dr. Jane Fleishman; NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio — with erstwhile poets laureate Martin Espada and Rich Michelson.
The Shot Not Heard ‘Round The World
4/25: Dr. Norbert Goldsmith and Ben Levenson, Deputy Director of Justice is Global, on the fight—
this week in Cambridge at the shareholders meeting—for Moderna to allow the covid vaccine to be distributed to countries where it is desperately needed.
The Budget, the Schools, and the Arts
4/22: State Representative Mindy Domb on budgets and beneficence; Underfunded, Unaffordable and Unfair- Dr. Bahar Akman Imboden, author of this report on Massachusetts Higher Ed from the Hildreth Institute, is Max Page’s guest on “Your State U.” ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Laurie Devine and Vitek Kruta, co-creators of Gateway City Arts.
One Planet, One People, No War
4/21: Nick Mottern, from Demilitarize Western Mass., and indefatigable activist, Paki Wieland, on Saturday’s demonstration. April is Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month –we speak with Rhonda Setkewich, Program Manager at Pathlight and Autism Connections. Rev. Michael McSherry and Rabbi Justin David on the war in Ukraine, and peace and prayer and G_d.
“Farm Free or Die”
4/20: “Farm Free or Die” with filmmakers Larry Hott and Roger Sorkin; live free and dance! with Jen Polins, Founding Director of the School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, and Steve Sanderson, Events Producer and Northampton Arts Council; and A GREAT SURPRISE—best selling author Leslea Newman joins Natalia Munoz. Leslea’s new book –pub date yesterday – is “Alicia and the Hurricane.”
Climate Protest in Amherst & The Monthly Comedy Quiz Show
4/19: Climate protest at Bank of America in Amherst with Ben Weiner and Joyce Samet; our monthly Comedy Quiz with Quizmaster Maddy Benjamin and contestants Pam Victor, Jess Tyler and Bill Newman!
Politics!
4/18: Northampton City Councilor-at-large, Jamila Gore; MHC grad Linda Melconian, author of “Lay It on the Table…When Tip O’Neill Led the U.S. House of Representatives to End the Vietnam War.”
The House Budget Looks Good for Education
4/15: Max Page, MTA Vice-President and Colin Jones, Mass. Budget Policy Analyst, on the proposed budget, money for education, and the Fair Share Amendment; State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on politics and policy; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jen Jabaily Blackburn, Program Director at the Smith College Poetry Center, on the upcoming performance at John M. Greene Hall of Dwayne Betts’ “Felon: an American Washi Tale.”
The Compost Co-op
4/14: Trenda Loftin, worker-owner of Compost Cooperative and founder of the Willow Permanent Real Estate Co-op, on affordable housing for formerly incarcerated and other marginalized persons; then Pastor Carole Bull, United Church of Ware, Rev. Matilda Rose Cantwell, Smith College Chaplain, and Rabbi Justin David, Congregation B’Nai Israel, on their spiritual paths and the pluralist spirit.
The Silver Chord Bowl is Back!
4/13: Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor Emeritus and Nation Magazine Defense Correspondent, on the Ukraine; Steve Sanderson and Peter McQuillan, from the Northampton Arts Council, on the upcoming Silver Chord Bowl and other fab events in April; Larry Hott and Mark Roessler on Mark’s new book, “The Agent and the Aeronaut.”
