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 War in Ukraine and Its Global Implications
3/29: The World Asunder with Nation Magazine Defense Correspondent and Hampshire College Professor Emeritus Michael Klare and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation, Sut Jhally. Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman.
The Cost of Gas To Greenfield
3/28: Mayors Monday with Greenfield Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner. Black in the Valley with PVPA School’s Dean of Students Kendrick Roundtree and students on their upcoming trip to HBCUs.
Why shut down the COVID test sites now?
3/25: State Representative Mindy Domb; Four Sundays in April with Northampton Arts Council’s Peter McQuillan.
Some Hott Oscar Insight
3/24: Larry Hott on the costumes we wear and the Oscars we’ll watch. Greg Bluestein, pre-eminent political reporter and author of “Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power.”
Crossing Borders
3/23: Ali Noorani, author Of “Crossing Borders: A Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants;” Joe Ricker, Artistic Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra; Vaya con Munoz. With Natalia Munoz.
Tyranny: A History
3/22: Marissa Perez, Hampshire College student, poet and performer with Denice Frohman at the Academy of Music this weekend. Andrew Fiala, author of “Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Tyranny, Sycophants, and Citizens.”
A War of Attrition?
3/21: Michael Klare, Hampshire and Five College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies and Defense Correspondent for the Nation Magazine, on the War in Ukraine. Michael Kazin, author of “What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party.”
Hair To The Crown (Act)
3/18: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa; MTA Vice President Max Page and Saul Ramos, First Vice-President of the union of Education Support Professionals in Worcester; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Claudia Ruiz Gustafson.
Remembering Daley & Halligan
3/17: “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs” — we speak with Carle Museum Chief Curator Ellen Keiter about the Eric Carle retrospective at the museum. Then we observe St. Patrick’s Day with Rev. Peter Ives and Bill O’Riordan – we focus on the hanging in Northampton of two Irish immigrants —Daley and Halligan—for a crime they did not commit.
Cinema Pandemia
3/16: Cool Films with Larry Hott and Laura Wetzler, whose new film is “What Happened at the Veterans Home? The Story of Three Heroic Women Who refused to Be Silenced.”
