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…

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Actor Shia LaBeouf, who was arrested and charged with battery after police say he punched several people outside a New Orleans bar earlier this month, was arrested again on Saturday and charged with one additional misdemeanor count of simple battery, court records show.

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A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs.

16 hours ago in National

FBI investigates Texas bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 14 as possible terrorist act

A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words "Property of Allah" killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The FBI is investigating the shooting, which erupted a day after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran, as a potential act of terrorism.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson returns home to South Carolina to lie in state

After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina Capitol on Monday.