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).
Bloomsday & Juneteenth
6/14: Bloomsday with Judith Roberts and Joe Lubold from the Literacy Project; Black in the Valley with guests Amilcar Shabazz, Demetria Shabazz, and Anika Lopes on Juneteenth.
American Mythmaking
6/10: “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of An American Myth” with co-author Chris Tomlinson; Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives.
Creating a Buz
6/9: Ben Downing, candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor; Buz Eisenberg on his new show on WHMP; Natalia Munoz on police reform efforts in the Valley.
How ’bout them Yankees?
6/8: Elinor Cleghorn, author of “Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World;” Talkin Baseball with the Duke–Duke Goldman.
Old School isn’t Cool
6/7: State Senator Jo Comerford and Mass. Teachers Ass’n VP Max Page on the need for new schools across the Commonwealth (and how they’ll be paid for); Main Street for All with Lilly Lombard, Jesse Hassinger, and Benjamin Weil.
Is the “For The People” Act our last hope?
6/4: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the urgent need, perhaps our last chance, to protect voting in the United States; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Tom Vacanti — on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — the return of live performances in the Valley.
The Secret Life of Flies
6/3: John Balcombe, author of “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects;” and Zachary Karabell, author of “Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power.”
In Search of Our National Bookshelf…
6/2: Jess McHugh on “Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books;” “A Time for Mercy:” attorney Patty Garin explains how and why clemency has died in Massachusetts and what you can do to breathe life back into this criminal justice safeguard; Natalia Munoz on white male privilege.
One day until “The New Normal”
5/28: We remember Eric Carle with State Representative Mindy Domb and also speak with the Representative about the lifting of covid restictions and revelations about the deaths at the Holyoke Soldiers Home; MTA VP Max Page on the senate budget — promises fulfilled and those that were not; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Scout Cuomo.
