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 10.6.14

Hampshire County United Way Exec. Director Jim Ayers; then, Roger Wallace, for whom the Exellence in Teaching Award is named–…

The Bill Newman Show 10.3.14

Tony DiTerlizzi on Luke Skywalker and all things Star Wars; Aleks Kajstura, Legal Director of the Prison Policy Initiative.

The Bill Newman Show 10.2.14

Easthampton H.S.senior Brian Delaney on concert for a cause; Mary Witt & Peter Irvine (rockin’ art), The rev, the rabbi…

The Bill Newman Show 10.1.14

Amherst College Professor Ilan Stavans on his psychedelic experience. UMass prof Max Page on his meeting with the UMass President.…

The Bill Newman Show 9.30.14

Eric Bosco, the UMass journalism major, who broke the story on UMass’s use of student police informants. Dr. Susan Lowery…

The Bill Newman Show 9.29.14

Hampshire College professor Robert Meagher on moral injury and just war. Historian Tom Foster on the sex lives of our…

The Bill Newman Show 9.26.14

Labor and employment law professor Harris Freeman on his recent Congressional testimony.

The Bill Newman Show 9.25.14

Happy 103 b’day, Aunt Ruth! Immigration Judge Paul Grussendorf on our deportation factories. Rev. Peter Ives on a planned death.

The Bill Newman Show 9.24.14

Indomitable 95 y.o. political activist Frances Crowe with Roots to Resistance founder Denise Beaudet; Mass Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni;…

The Bill Newman Show 9.23.14

Ebola epidemic strikes family who befriended Valley students –please help. Also, Attorneys Luke Ryan & David Hoose on their big…

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