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 11.6.13

Max Page on the radical idea of UMass; Rep. Jim McGovern and Monte Belmonte for the Food Bank; Margaret Lloyd and…

The Bill Newman 11.5.13

CIA assasin Robet Baer; Two of the worlds’s most famous poets- Nikki Finney and Elizabeth Alexander; Heidi Norton-Smith, Exec. Dir.,…

The Bill Newman Show 11.4.13

Antonia Lassar on The God Box; award-wining author Daniel Alacron, At Night We Walk in Circles; Sweet Honey In The Rock…

The Bill Newman Show 11.1.13

Professor Stephen Rich on your chances of contracting lyme disease (and other horribles) from deer tics. Ward 7 candidate Alisa Klein.

The Bill Newman 10.31.13

From Young@Heart-  Steve Martin, Jeanette Parks, Joe Mitchell, John Rinehart & Bob Cilman; then, City Councillor Marianne Labarge; & The Rev and The Rebbe.

The Bill Newman Show 10.30.13

  Noah Berger’s work on a well educated work force. Higher Learning, lower funding.

The Bill Newman Show 10.28.13

Jules Chametzsky about his book on Jewish Nobel Laureates he has known; and Sonia Nieto on hers– about finding joy in teaching…

The Bill Newman Show 10.25.13

Scott Freiman on the Beatles!   Cathy McNally, Exec Dir., Voices From Inside. Happenings In The Valley!

The Bill Newman Show 10.24.13

Lavery Greenfield,age 7, founder of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Jar Program; Clare Higgins, 58, E.D. of Community Action.

The Bill Newman Show 10.23.13

Bob Forrant’s Bread and Roses; Deni Bechard’s bonobos; Jane Yolen’s Sister Fox’s Field Guide to Writing; Max Page’s            Memories of…

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President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

14 hours ago in National

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A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

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