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).

An Apology For The Greensboro Massacre

10/8: Eric Chester, author of “Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent during WW I;” Dr. Martha Nathan on the apology from the city that was complicit in the Ku Klux Klan’s the murder of her husband; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on Sukkot and sukkah

Invisible Cities

10/7: Roman Mars on his new book “The 99% Invisible City;” Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, on which letters are published and which ones aren’t.

Larry David to become newest member of Young@Heart Chorus?

10/5: State Senator Jo Comerford; Young@Heart with Bob Cilman, Rosemary Caine and Sonia Nieto.

Dirty Money

10/2: Northampton-based attorney and WNEU law professor Jennifer Taub -her new book is “Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White-Collar Crime;” MTA VP Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jason Montgomery.

The Dangers of The Day After The Election

10/1: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the state of the race for president; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin –his new book is “The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rev. Averill Elizabeth Blackburn, the new minster of the Florence Congregational Church.

Breaking Down The Breakdown at The Presidential Debate

9/30: We fishwrap the debate; then, Sam Myers, co-editor of “Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves” on climate change and our politics.

Recent Headlines

2 hours ago in Trending, World

Living hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released as part of ceasefire in Gaza

All 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel walked free Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that decimated the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

3 days ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

3 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

3 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.

3 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track "Not Like Us" were opinion.