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).
You’ll Never Believe It, But Cherry Trees…AGAIN!
8/10: Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke, SABR star Duke Goldman, after talkin’ Cherry Trees with the Monte.
Cherry trees AGAIN!?!?
8/9: We Fishwrap Cherry Trees; then, Black in the Valley with special guest, Dr. Sonji Johnson Anderson.
The Light Behind The Black Hole
8/6: Hampshire College professor and astronomer, Salman Hameed, with breaking news (just a few billion years old) from outer space. Then, ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Diane Dix of the Nolumbeka Project.
The Brief Pause on an Eviction Crisis
8/5: The eviction moratorium–or not: we speak with attorney Jane Edmonstone, Senior Supervising Attorney of the Housing Unit of Community Legal Aid; then local author and Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist, John Scheirer, on “Stumbling Through Adulthood.”
Remembering When The U.S. Dropped The Bomb
8/4: Myra Lam, a founding director of the Northampton-based Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, and anti-nuclear activist, Dr. Andrew Larkin, on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the commemorations this weekend in Easthampton and Greenfield, and the fight to try to end the threat of nuclear annihilation; then, Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
Cherry Tree v City of Northampton
8/3: No cherry-picking facts! “Crime and Punishment” with Attorney John who discusses the law, the injunction and the cherry trees on Warfield Place — and their demise.
Then, Northampton-based singer-songwriter and cardiologist Johnny Joelson pulls at our heart strings with his new album of original work “No Turning Back.”
Biomassachusetts
8/2: State Senator Jo Comerford on voting rights, biomass in western Mass, prison construction, light pollution and stars: Jeremy Lent, author of “The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe.”
Orders From The D.A.
7/30: We cover a lot of ground with Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington; then cover masks with Mass. Teachers Ass’n V.P. Max Page; and then, ArtBeat with
Amanda Herman, Cassandra Holden, and Michi Wiancko.
A multicultural educator before it was cool
7/29: Vaya con Munoz: Natalia leads our interview of Sonia Nieto, just-announced winner of the Massachusetts Humanities Governor’s Award; Tinky Weisblat, aka “The Diva of Delight,” on her upcoming performance, the final of this year’s Mohawk Trail Concerts, with Clifton Jerry Noble on piano –Saturday at 5:00 at the Charlemont Federated Church. Then, from the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, organizer Andrea Schmid and new Board Chair Diana Becera on immigration and imperialism.
The Addiction To Trump
7/28: “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.” We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Carol Lennig about her new best-selling book, co-authored with her fellow Washington Post reporter– the White House Bureau Chief–Philip Rucker; then, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Jan Fleishman –a quiz for Bill, Monte, and Natalia.
