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).
Smashing the Oligarchy
2/2: Thom Hartmann, the country’s pre-eminent progressive radio talk show host, whose new book is “The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class.” Then, Attorney John Pucci on Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial.
Vaccsoon?
2/1: Senator Jo Comerford on Covid-19, the vaccine rollout and its availability here in Western Massachusetts.
Are The Rich Getting A Little Closer To Being Eaten?
U.S. Billionaires Gain $1.2 TRILLION since March !! with Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies; Governor Baker’s vaccine rollout and his budget
with MTA Vice-President Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Cassis and artist Larry Slezak– his show is the Anchor House Gallery in Northampton.
The Shadow History of Adoption
1/28: Gabrielle Glaser, author of “American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption;” Sue Reynolds, new Chair of Amherst Writers and Artists; Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives on new beginnings.
Is Trump An Asset?
1/27: Craig Unger, author of “American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery.” Then, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, and panelists Natalia Munoz, Monte and Bill.
Is There Another Universe?
1/26: Michael Lawrence Riddell, Executive Director of Florence-based Self Evident Media; then, the Return of the Sci-Tech Cafe starring Professors Gary Felder (Smith) and Kerstin Nordstrom (Mount Holyoke) – on multiverses.
Blais vs Beacon Hill Bias against W.MA
1/25: State Representative Natalie Blais on the Governor’s veto of a major economic development bill for western Massachusetts; Northampton-based baseball historian Duke Goldman on the passing of Henry Aaron; Black in the Valley with special guest, professor of religion, Dr. William Greene.
The Less-Than Neato Veto
1/22: State Representative Mindy Domb on the Climate Bill and the Holyoke Soldiers Home; MTA Vice- President Max Page on Biden’s education policies and vaccines for school employees; ArtBeat with host, Donnabelle Casis, and artist Sean Greene on Sean’s new show at PULP in Holyoke.
The Beginning of Biden
1/21: We Fishwrap the Inauguration; then: Yasmin Eisenhauer, the new Executive Director of Amherst Cinema and Salman Hameed, Chair of the Board; “A Feminist Romance Novel, Live! with CatStache members Leah Berkenwald, Sam Aguirre, and Ben Sandler; The Reverend and the Rabbi with Elsie Fetterman of Amherst and Jim Lescault, Exec. Director of Amherst Media, on
” A House Built by Hope: A Story of Compassion, Resilience and Religious Freedom.” https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?
The End Is Here
1/20: Goodbye, Donald Trump! Our guests: Heather Hurwitz, author of “Are We the 99%? The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality;” Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz; and NPR –Northampton Poetry Radio with Poets Laureate Rich Michelson and Martin Espada. Here’s the link to Sr. Espada’s upcoming reading from his new book: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/floaters/register
