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).
MUSIC AND SEX MATTERS
12/28: First, an amazing and beautiful in-studio performance by Western Mass. Singer-songwriter and First Night performer, Wallace Field. Then, sex educator, Sr. Jane Fleishman, gives us — Bill, Dan Torres Natalia Munoz and listeners — a year-end quiz to see if we have been paying attention in 2022.
Is the Mayor Appealing?
12/27: On this Mayor’s Monday we ask Greenfield’s Mayor about the city’s recently filed appeal of the $1million verdict against the city and its police department for race discrimination in a hiring decision. Then, performing LIVE in the studio—Thrasher Wheat, the Neil Young cover band, Mike Jennings, Chris Jennings, Mike Parham, and a preview of First Night with Peter McQuillan from the Northampton Arts Council.
FREEDOM!
12/23: The War in Ukraine –we speak with Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies about the possibility of peace. Then, Watch Night—a special edition of Black in the Valley with Rev. Johnny M. Wilson, Jr., a western Massachusetts pastor.
TAKE THE PLUNGE
12/22: The Polar Plunge (ouch!!) in support of the Palestinian House of Friendship with Tom Weiner, Celia Miller and Sherrill Hogan. Then, Silent Night, Holy Night—we discuss Christmas and faith with Pastor Carol Bull.
Four Winters This Winter
12/21: Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on two films that Larry highly recommends: “Civil” and local filmmaker Julia Mintz’s “Four Winters” Then, Natalia Munoz on the upcoming (or not) vote in Puerto Rico on independence, statehood or the status quo?
We Remember
We remember and celebrate the life of 25-year western Massachusetts State Representative Stephen Kulik, who passed this past Sunday. Our guests: State Representative Natalie Blais, who succeeded Steve as the representative of the First Franklin District; former Mass. Senate President Stan Rosenberg; John Scibak, 15-year State Representative from the Second Hampshire District; Bob Pura, recently retired long-term President of Greenfield Community College; and Linda Dunlavy, Executive Director of the Franklin Regional Council of Governments.
True You
12/19 “True You: A Gender Journey.” We speak with the authors Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner, who also is the photographer. Gwen is the beloved Northampton educator and long-times principal of Jackson Street Elementary School in Northampton. Shelley is the photographer for 57 books.
Many Bills
12/16: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on politics and policies; Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Max Page on education funding, the Fair Share Amendment, and high stakes testing; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and the Curator of Asian Art at the Smith College Museum of Art, Yao Wu.
Defending the Defenseless In an Outlaw World
12/15-That’s the book’s subtitle. The title is “Renegade for Justice,” and the author is our first guest, Stephen Saltonstall. Then, Rev. Michael McSherry from Edwards Church on the historical Jesus.
IN JEOPARDY
12/14: Appellate attorney Joseph Schneiderman, who won a crucially important case at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week, Commonwealth v. Edwards. Then, Cool Films with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” “The Balcony Movie” and “The Camera of Doctor Morris.”
