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).
Tangled Up In Blue
2/16: Rosa Brooks, author of “Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City.” Then, UMass. professor Amilcar Shabazz on “The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song.” And our monthly Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor, Monte Belmonte and Quizmaster Scott Braidman.
Easthampton Schools Poised to Reopen
2/15: Mayor’s Monday with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on the impeachment trial, covid vaccine availability, schools reopening and budget cutting. Then, award-winning author and poet Leslea Newman on “I Wish My Father.”
How To Fix A Drug Scandal-The Sequel
2/12: News on the western Massachusetts drug lab scandal with Nina Morrison, Senior Litigation Counsel at the Innocence Project; MTA Vice-President Max Page on vaccinations for teachers; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Linda McInerney, Artistic Director of Eggtooth Productions, and Monte Belmonte, a/k/a President of the Shea Theater.
Power Concedes Nothing Without Demand
2/11: We fishwrap Trump’s impeachment trial; speak with Michelle D. Commander, editor of and contributor to “Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition;” preview the wonderful Valentine’s Day show, the second in the Northampton Council’s Four Sundays in February series; and feature a discussion of the Black church with Rev. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Rev. Peter Ives, and Rabbi Justin David.
Poochie on Impoochment
2/10: John Pucci on Trump’s impeachment; Sally Bellrose-her new novel is “Fishwives;” Natalia Munoz on the Northampton Police Commission’s interim report.
Bill Newman’s Little Library
2/9: “Broke in America” with Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox;
“The City of the Uncommon Thief” with Lynn Bertrand; and “From Rube to Robinson: SABR’s Best Articles on Black Baseball” with editor and contributor Duke Goldman.
Missions To Mars
2/5: Max Page, Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President, on the vaccine for teachers and debt relief for students. Hampshire College Professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on the three space missions now approaching Mars. Donnabelle Casis’ ArtBeat with special guests Sarah Marcus, Director of the Youth Performance Festival (YPF), YPF mentor artist Asieh Mahyar and students Arden Lloyd and Ja’siah Bufford.
Patience is a virtue when it comes to the vaccine
2/4: Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US. Then, The Reverend, Peter Ives, and the Rabbi, Justin David, on the ethics of where you are in the line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
The Other Superb Sunday Event
2/3: The Northamptones! A sneak preview of this Sunday’s Silver Chord Bowl and their new album.
