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.”

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