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 Bill Newman Show 10.20.14

On Black in the Valley — Erika Wilson-Perkins; Deborah Keisch & Erin Mahon-Moore on high stakes testing in Hamp schools;…

The Bill Newman Show 10.17.14

GTMO detainee lawyer, Buz Eisenberg;  also  Eric Kaplan, creative force of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, on his new…

The Bill Newman Show 10.16.14

Cool films with Emmy-award winning filmmaker Larry Hott; Shelter Sunday with Rebecca Muller (W. Mass. Network to End Homelessness) &…

The Bill Newman Show 10.15.14

City Councilor  Ryan O’Donnell on vibrant sidewalks; UMass Professor Jim Boyce on saving the earth while saving money; Jim Nash…

The Bill Newman Show 10.14.14

Katie Eisman & Rose Wessel on the fracking pipeline; Helen Haddad, author of The Taking; Before They Flooded the Quabbin;…

The Bill Newman Show 10.13.14

Erin McKeown rocks the house; Mac Everett & Deborah Slavitt on reuse for the arts; Julia Mines makes us happy;…

The Bill Newman Show 10.10.14

The Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Archive website is a portal that allows visitors to view high-resolution digital images of the more…

The Bill Newman Show 10.9.14

NCIS with attorney Harry Miles; the Paradise City Arts Festival with founder Linda Post; & the rev. & the Rebbe.

The Bill Newman Show 10.8.14

Obama Inauguration poet Richard Blanco; UMass prof. Stephen Clingman on his South Africa roots; artist Gregory Stone on his upcoming…

The Bill Newman Show 10.7.14

Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings; Professor & astronomer Salman Hameed on India going to Mars;…

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