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

6 hours ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

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.

6 hours ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

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.

13 hours ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

2 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

2 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.