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 9.5.14

Maura Healey, candidate for Attorney General; Steve Abdow and Alan Cabot, local and state-wide leaders of Repeal The Casino Deal.

The Bill Newman Show 9.4.14

Stand-up comic Jimmy Tingle; gallery founder Deb Focault with curator Jean Radakovitch; the return of The Revernd and the Rabbi

The Bill Newman 9.3.14

Attorney Buz Eisenberg –updates from Guantanamo; Steve Campbell on Northampton Jazz Fest; Prof. Max Page on law and football at…

The Bill Newman Show 9.2.14

Professor-astronomer Salman Hammed on other life in the universe; Attorney Harry Miles on the forensics of Ferguson.

The Bill Newman Show

Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with poet and professor Martin Espada about the life and death of his former…

The Bill Newman Show 8.28.14

Guest host Josh Silver talks with Rabbi Justin David about Israel/Gaza.  Plus wind energy with Matt Lackner from UMass and…

The Bill Newman Show 8.27.14

Josh Silver guest host and talks with Pandora Redwin about pop-up adventure playgrounds. As well as Max Page on UMass…

The Bill Newman Show 8.27.14

Josh Silver guests hosts and talks about the upcoming Live Art Magazine in Northampton

The Bill Newman Show 8.25.14

Guest host Josh Silver talks with Josh Finkle from The Tech Foundry, Reed Schimmelfing from Represent US and Steve Sanderson…

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