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 11.21.13

Max Page on governing UMass; Defining The Struggle for Racial Justice with author Susan Carle; Rabbi Riqi  Kosovske stars on the Rev. &…

The Bill Newman Show 11.20.13

Transgender Remembrance Day; plus, Project Unspeakable.

The Bill Newman Show 11.19.13

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.  NHS thespians explain. And  HVGO sneaks into Symphony Hall.

The Bill Newman Show 11.18.13

Best-selling author Alan Weisman on COUNTDOWN: The Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

The Bill Newman Show 11.15.13

Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella and GTMO detainee lawyer Buz Eisenberg on the medical ethics of torture

The Bill Newman Show 11.14.13

Doris Kearns Goodwin; Northampton BPW Chair Terry Culhane; Nerissa Nields and The Sojourner Truth Celebration at First Churches.

The Bill Newman Show 11.13.13

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winning historian and best-selling author, is coming to the Valley.

The Bill Newman Show 11.12.13

Ann Jones, author of They were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s  Wars–The Untold Story.

The Bill Newman Show 11.8.13

Hilary Price (Rhymes with Orange) and Artist Betsy Stone; Pam Victor of the HA HAs; Jonathan Wright on amazing developments…

The Bill Newman Show 11.7.13

Bruce Cowee on the air war in Vietnam; Joan Grenier on the Odyssey’s birthday; The Rev, the Rabbi and the…

Recent Headlines

35 minutes ago in National

Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell form in the Pacific Ocean as Dolly churns in the Atlantic

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Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, both of which were expected to become hurricanes in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said.

41 minutes ago in National

As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos

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A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the smug concierge in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. He was 80.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton. Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe.

3 days ago in National

Pennsylvania reports first 2 measles deaths in the US this year, both people unvaccinated

Two unvaccinated Pennsylvania residents have died after being infected with measles, the first U.S. deaths this year related to the contagious virus. State health officials announced the deaths Tuesday. They did not reveal any details about the people who died, other than that they lived in Lancaster County, west of Philadelphia.