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 6.24.13

Susannah Scheffer, author of Fighting For Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys; plus Black In The Valley.

The Bill Newman Show 6.19.13

The extraordinarily talented & funny author and illustrator Mo Willems; Sally Ooms, author of Finding Home: How Americans Prevail

The Bill Newman Show 6.18.13

Attorney Stephen Schwartz from the Center for Public Representation; Robert Reckman on the Override Forum; Peter Blanchette

The Bill Newman Show 6.17.2013

Congressman James McGovern, funeral home director, Peter Stefan, who accepted the Boston bomber’s body for burial, Josh Silver on politics.

The Bill Newman Show 6.14.13

Father’s Day, In & Out

The Bill Newman Show 6.13.13

Wofa African Drum and Dance Company, Reverend and the Rabbi, Air quality in the Valley

The Bill Newman Show 6.12.13

Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella

The Bill Newman Show 6.11.13

David Pakman on politics; Ralp Poynter on Lynn Steward and compassionate release.

WOFA African Drum and Dance Benefit

Bisko Kaba, Director of the WOFA African Drum and Dance Company of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school speaks about raising funds to bring his students to his home country of Guinea, Africa.

Recent Headlines

1 day ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

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

2 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

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.

2 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

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.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

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.

2 days ago in National

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown

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.