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 8.4.14

Rafe Esquith on Real Talk for Real Teachers; then, professor and astronomer Salman Hameed’s Ridiculously Large and Largely Ridiculous Universe;

The Bill Newman Show 8.3.14

Josh Weil, author of The Great Glass Sea; Larry Hott and Nina Kleinberg on “Casablanca;” Black in the Valley with Freedom-Rider Jean Denton-Thompson.

The Bill Newman Show 8.1.14

Paki Wieland on drones in our midst; Bliss Requa-Trautz and Gia Bernini on immigrant children coming to western Massachusetts.

The Bill Newman Show 7.31.14

Clare Higgins, former Northampton mayor and Executive Director of Community Action; Chris Tomlinson, author of Tomlinson Hill, a history in black and white.

The Bill Newman Show 7.30.14

Professor Guy McPherson on our climate change debacle; Alice Eve Cohen on “What I Thought I Knew” with Ko Festival’s Sabrina Hamilton.

The Bill Newman Show 7.29.14

Republican Secretary of State candidate David D’Arcangelo woos us; author Rita Bleiman wows us; then Paintbox Theater pirates whip us into shape.

The Bill Newman Show 7.28.14

Political Gold with Josh Silver; New Century Theatre (Listen up!!—NCT Kids!) starring actor, director, & teacher Cate Damon.

The Bill Newman Show 7.25.14

Cool Films with Larry Hott, the Emmy-award winning and twice–nominated for an Academy Award Northampton film-maker.  

The Bill Newman Show 7.24.14

NCT’s Sam Rush on Clybourne Park; the BID’s Natasha Yakovlev; & Independent Eye stars Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller with…

The Bill Newman Show 7.23.14

Newly-elected Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni;  then Your State U. (and western Europe’s politics) with Professor Max Page.

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