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 Myth of Private Equity
11/16: Author and financial analyst Jeffrey Hooke on “The Myth of Private Equity;” Doris Madsen on her movie “Wear Orange” and the fight for sensible gun control and then on the Northampton Arts Council’s recent decision to precipitously cancel the biennial art show.
Poeta Boricua
11.16.21 Rich Michelson guest hosts and talks with the beloved and well-decorated Puerto Rican poet from Amherst, Martin Espada-with a breaking story about his most recent award and in anticipation of the announcement of the National Book Award. Plus the Happier Valley Comedy Quiz on the Tony Awards.
Four Years For The First Time
11.15.21 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with the newly re-elected Mayor of Easthampton, Nicole LaChapelle, about priorities going into her first four-year term. Plus Heather Hurwitz author of Are We The 99%, looking back on a decade since Occupy Wall Street.
The State of Radio in The Valley
11/10: Radio in the Valley with Stephan Ward-Wheaton and Betsy Cortiss; Andrew Roberts, author of “The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III;” Holyoke Media News Director, Natalia Munoz on wokeness and the Northampton Arts Council’s decision to censor/cancel the Biennial Art Show.
Students -v- Standardized
11/9 J.M. Beach, author of ” Can We Measure What Matters Most? Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers.”
No More Guantanamos
11/8: Nancy Talanian and Buz Eisenberg on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Northampton Bill of Rights Defense Committee and No More Guantanamos. Then, Black in the Valley on freeing Iman Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown.
Celebrating Indigenous Art
11/5: MTA VP Max Page, Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jason Montgomery.
How to save baseball
11/4: Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke–Duke Goldman; then, Tim Mak, author of “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA;” and then, Rev. Michael McSherry and Rabbi Justin David.
