NAKED on Nantucket

12/13: We speak with Jessica Lewis, the ACLU of Massachusetts attorney who represented the ACLU

in support of the Nantucket topless-on-the-beach ordinance. SABR star Duke Goldman –we’re “Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke” –$360 million here, $280 million there, and after a while we’re talkin’ about real money; and the Red Sox lose another star.

Mayor’s Monday with Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia

12/12: Mayor’s Monday with Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia—on implementation of ShotSpotter in Holyoke. Black in the Valley, hosted by Professor Carlie Tartakov and Rev. Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, with Imani Robinson-McFarley, from Community Change Action, on voter suppression.

The Valley Celebrates the One and Only Monte Belmonte

State Representative for the 1st Franklin District, Natalie Blais, on East-West Rail and broadband in rural Massachusetts; then an all-star western Mass. cast celebrates Monte.

A bad month for Trump

12/8: Crime and Punishment with attorney John Pucci—on the travails of Trump. Thirty Poems in 30 Days with Laurie Millman, Director of the Center for New Americans, Sarah Sullivan, Marty Wohl, and Adriana Lyra-Brazao. What local writers and poets, young and not so young, have written and will share next week is amazing.

Is there any hope on the horizon between Russia & Ukraine?

12/7: Cool Films with Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott—with two strong recommendations on films you want to see. Natalia Munoz on Monte.

Are you ready for some football propaganda?

12/6: Sut Jhally, UMass. Professor of Communication Emeritus and founder and Director of the Media Education Foundation, on “Behind the (NFL) Shield, at the Amherst Cinema; the Sci-Tech Café with Mount Holyoke College Professor Physics Kerstin Nordstrom—we’re talking about beer!

The Resilience Hub has a home

12/5: It’s Mayors Monday, and we speak with Northampton Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra about the new Resilience Hub. Also, sex trafficking and the World Cup — we speak with Professor Gregory Mitchell whose new book is “Panics without Border: How Global Supporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking;”

The return to The Moon

12/2: MTA President Max Page on higher ed funding; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on going back to the moon and international space stations; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Alexia Cota on the Angola (the maximum security prison) quilt project — now at the Augusta Savage Gallery.

A Rabbi in The West Bank

12/1: Corinne Demas on “The Perfect Tree;” Rabbi Justin David on his recent trip to the West Bank and the search for peace.

Emily Dickenson and The Irish

11/30: Great craic! We preview “Margaret Maher and the Celtification of Emily Dickinson,” being performed this weekend at Hawks & Reed in Greenfield, with the playwright Rosie Caine. Them Beverly Cage on “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.” Read this book!