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 D.A. on the A.G.

11.20.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with District Attorney Dave Sullivan about impeachment and Attorney General Barr’s role. Plus the comedy quiz. And Nilaja Sun from the show PIKE St. at the Academy of Music

Vaya Con Muñoz & The Mayor

11.18.19 Natalia Muñoz takes over for Newman and brings her regular guests from her Saturday show, Nathaniel Waring and Kate Albright-Hannah to talk politics with the Mayor of Easthampton Nicole LaChappelle

Desk 88

11/8: Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown; Meade Art Museum Director and Curator, David Little, on ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Meet the new Pastor in Haydenville

11/7: Lydia Pyne, author of “Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff;” MHC prof. Mark McMenamin from Valley Light Opera on this weekend’s production of “Camelot” at the Academy of Music; “The Reverend and the Rabbi “ with Rev. Peter Ives, CBI Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Don Morgan, the new pastor of the Haydenville Congregational Church, and the head of the search committee for the church, Pat James.

Stop The Press! Election Results Are In

11/6: Brooke Hauser, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette on election coverage and results; Rhymes with Orange’s Hilary Price and artists Lisa Foster, Molly Hatch, and Mary Risley –a preview of this weekend’s Arts and Industry Open studios in Florence ; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz on Holyoke election results.

Yes He Did

11/5: Lawrence Jackson, former Official White House Photographer—his new book is “Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-the Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African-American President;” then, UMass. Professor and Chair of the Communications Dept., Sut Jhally, on the upcoming presentation at UMass (and the controversy surrounding it), “Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS & American Democracy.”

Recent Headlines

12 hours ago in National

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he "won't negotiate" with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.

18 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.