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).

That Was Awkward

10/16: Black in the Valley with special guest Erika Slocumb; “That was AKWARD” with New Yorker cartoonist and humorist, Emily Flake; UMass Professor of History and filmmaker Kevin Young.

American Factory

10/15: Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott previews his new film, “The Warrior Tradition,” coming soon to PBS; then, this month’s Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has.

Cooperation

10/14: The Annual Co-op Show with Warren Facey (co-owner Bree-Z Knoll Dairy Farm and member of Our Family Farms Cooperative); Rochelle Prunty (River Valley Co-op); Adam Trott (Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives) Sarah Kanabay (Franklin Community Co-op); Chris Krezmien (Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics); Lauren Duffy (UMass Five College Credit Union).

The Big O

10/11: The show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, on orgasms; MTA Veep, Max Page, on the legislature’s education committee coming to UMass and GCC today; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and guests Dean Brown and Mary Moore-Cathcart of PULP; plus a Fishwrap on Trump.

Social (Distortion) Media

10/10: Andrew Marantz, author of “Anti-Social: On-line Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation;” Lewis Cohen, M.D. and UMass. Professor of Psychiatry, author of “A Dignified Ending;”
Congregation B’nai Israel Rabbi Justin David on attacks on Jews, anti-Semitism, and celebration of the high holy days.

Will Greenfield Be The Next Safe City?

10/9: Will Greenfield remain a safe city? Jeff Napolitano speaks with supporters of the ordinance; also, Linda Post, founder of the Paradise City Arts Festivals.

Jo Hill

10/7: State Senator Jo Comerford on education and criminal justice; New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin, co-author of “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh.”

A Unanimous Vote For Our Schools

10/4: MTA Vice President Max Page on the major education legislation the state Senate just passed; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on breaking news form the college; then breaking news from outer space.

Praying With Their Feet

10/3: Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David; then, Maria Goodavage, author of “Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine.”

Masthead v Nameplate

10/2: Daily Hampshire Gazette editor-in-chief, Brook Hauser, on the paper and its positions; also, a preview of the Northampton Jazz Fest.

Recent Headlines

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