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 7.8.14

Katy Eisman & Jim Cutler, from MassPLAN on that fracking gas pipeline -here? Then HVGO maestro Peter Blanchette.

The Bill Newman Show 7.7.14

Author Ellen Evert  Hopman on Celts & Scots in Hamp; AG candidate Warren Tollman; New Century Theatre’s Sam Rush;  BItV…

The Bill Newman Show 7.3.14

The amazing author Jane Yolen; the amazing musical talent Samirah Evans

The Bill Newman Show 7.2.14

Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella; Ko Festival founder  and artistic director Sabrina Hamilton.

The Bill Newman Show 7.1.14

Paint Box Theater presents…; The Center for Biological Diversity’s Stephanie Feldstein on World Population Day; astronomer Salman Hameed’s tour of…

The Bill Newman Show 6.30.14

Addiction and a new way to treat it

The Bill Newman Show 6.27.14

Northampton’s Abolition History

The Bill Newman Show 6.26.14

NCIS (Northampton Criminal Investigative Service) with attorney Harry Miles; Happy 40th birthday Birthday,—a party for Northampton-all welcome! Rev. Peter Ives…

The Bill Newman Show 6.25.14

Pandora Redwin on Adventure Playgrounds popping up in Northampton; plus a totally cool, special edition of NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio).…

The Bill Newman Show 6.24.14

Gillian Kendall, author of The Garden of Darkness; Poet Terry Johnson on Coalescence; The Valley Blue Sox’s major league prospects…

Recent Headlines

2 days ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

2 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

3 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.

3 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track "Not Like Us" were opinion.

3 days ago in National

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown

The nation's third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.