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).

Bill Newman 5.22.13

Katharine Baker on Palestinian House of Friendship

Bill Newman Show 5.21.13

Daphne Kalotay on Sight Reading and Jane Yolen,on the 50th anniversary of her first published books

Bill Newman Show 5.20.13

Qais Akbar Omar, author of A Fort of Nine Towers, An Afghan Family Story; then, Black In The Valley.

Bill Newman Show – 5/17/13

NPR (sort of) with Anne Love Woodhull, author of Night With Its Owl and Northampton Poet Laureate Rich Michelson; and…

Bill Newman Show – 5/16/13

From the Literacy Project: Judith Roberts, Executive Director, Fred Barrett, “J” Couture, and Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight on…

Bill Newman Show – 5/15/13

We celebrate National Bike Week with western mass. star biker James Lowenthal and other luminaries we found with their bikes…

Bill Newman Show – 5/14/13

The Great Recession: women and work with Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, co-editor of Women Lead; then, move over, Northampton — you’re no…

Bill Newman Show – 5/13/13

Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, on Chechnya and war and novels and the Boston marathon bombing;…

Bill Newman Show – 5/10/13

Celebrate Mother’s Day with Laura Lovett, UMass history professor and author of When We Were Free To Be,’ and Northampton…

Bill Newman Show – 5/9/13

Johnny Got His Gun: our guests are the producer Linda McInerney and the director Kevin Maroney as they preview an…

Recent Headlines

3 hours ago in National, Trending

US employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 jobs last month, rebounding from a weak February

American employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 new jobs last month, rebounding from a dismal February. And the unemployment...

3 hours ago in National, Trending

The Latest: US and Israel are trying to rescue fighter jet crew in Iran, Israeli source says

The U.S. military launched a rescue operation Friday after Iranian state media reported that an American fighter jet went down and at least...

2 days ago in Entertainment, National, Trending

The Latest: Artemis II fully fueled for NASA’s historic return to the moon

NASA's launch team has loaded more than 700,000 gallons of fuel into the 32-story Space Launch System rocket, setting the stage for the Artemis II mission crew members to board...

1 week ago in National

A 14-year-old running for governor is the first teen to get on Vermont’s general election ballot

Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year. After working as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse, the 14-year-old freshman at Stowe High School now has his sights set on the corner office.

1 week ago in Sports, Trending

Tom Brady says he’s weighed coming out of retirement, but the NFL doesn’t like the idea

Tom Brady revealed in an interview released on Thursday that he considered coming out of retirement, but the National Football League wasn't particularly receptive to the idea.