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

21 hours ago in National

A violent tornado tears through Oklahoma town, damaging 40 homes but sparing lives

Raeann Hunt scrambled to her cellar as a tornado bore down on her Oklahoma community. "It is headed right for us," she recalled thinking, as she peeked outside, unable to contain her curiosity.

1 day ago in National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

2 days ago in Sports, Trending

NFL teams are almost on the clock as draft night in the Steel City has arrived

Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

2 days ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

3 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.