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 5.7.14

Betsy Leondar-Wright on her book Missing Class (as in overlooking it); Florence Ladd on The Spirit of Josephine; Peter Blanchette…

The Bill Newman Show 5.6.14

Candidate for Attorney General, Maura Healy & Salman Hameed’s Ridiculously Large and Largely Ridiculous Universe.

The Bill Newman Show 5.5.14

Black in the Valley with Carlie Tartakov, Ingrid Askew, Ann-Marie Caulker; & Dr.Sue Lowery; for Mothers’ Day—the Good Mother Myth…

The Bill Newman Show 5.2.14

Josh Ruebner, author of Shattered Hopes: Obama’s failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace.

The Bill Newman Show 5.1.14

Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate coming to the Care Center & Ann Teschner, Executive Director of the Care Center.

The Bill Newman Show 4.30.14

Suzanne Strempek Shea on This Is Paradise; Bruce Dancis, author of Resister: a Story of Protest and Prison during the…

The Bill Newman Show 4.29.14

In memoriam:Tim Carpenter. Jim Hightower on Democrats, armadillos, health care, Bernie Sanders, & the upcoming Progressive Democrats of America confab in Northampton. And poet…

The Bill Newman Show 4.28.14

Nick Mottern on “Know Drones.” Lois Ahrens, Exec Director, Real Cost of Prisons Project, on Massachusetts’ proposed bail jail.

The Bill Newman Show 4.25.14

Tess Poe, Ryan O’Donnell, Bob Reckman, & Wayne Feiden preview “Pleasant Futures” in Northampton; author Michael Sims on The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

The Bill Newman Show 4.23.14

Donelle Wright, from Jobs Not Jails with w. Mass. AFSC’s Jeff Napolitano; The Odyssey bookshop’s Joan Grenier and Emily Crowe on…

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.