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).
The Evils of Becoming Eho
2/4 Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; then, photojournalist Richard Cahan, whose new amazing book is “River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It.”
Dollars and Devils at Davos
1/29: On inequality: Chuck Collins, from the Institute for Policy Studies, on a wealth tax for the super-rich; Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman—
Listen up! Valentine’s Day is coming! Then, Natalia Munoz on the ongoing housing crisis in Puerto Rico.
Stand Up While You Listen To This
1/28: On aging: Judy Foreman, author of “Exercise is Medicine;” Cool Films with Larry Hott: movies you owe it to yourself to see.
A Necessary Proposition?
1/27: A question of money: Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz on the Proposition 2 ½ Override; Black in the Valley with special guest Horace Small.
The Governor’s New Budget. Also, Duck Penises
MTA Veep Max Page on what the Governor’s proposed budget would do to education; Sci-Tech Café with MHC science profs Kirsten Nordstrom and Patty Brennan on duck penises (really!!); Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis and Lucinda Kidder.
After The First Day of The Impeachment Trial…
1/23: First, Newman on the impeachment trial; then, Ariela Gross & Alejandro de la Fuente, co-authors of “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom and Law in Cuba, Virginia and Louisiana;” and Rabbi Justin David on the recent rise
in anti-Semitism in America.
Disagreeing Agreeably
1/22: Stanley Fish, author of “The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump;” Natalia Munoz on Puerto Rico, and then the kerfuffle between Bernie and Hillary.
