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).

Newman on a horse! (A punctuation quiz)

9/17: Talkin’ Baseball (and life) with the Duke; then, the Comedy Quiz –Punctuate this! With the Ha Has, or is it the Ha Ha’s?

The Masthead & The Mayor

9/16: Bob Flaherty on breaking news at the Daily Hampshire Gazette; Mayor’s Monday with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; Megan Twohey, New York Times investigative reporter and co-author of “SHE SAID

Hampshire is Back with Wingenbach

9/13: Hampshire College President Ed Wingenbach on the college’s past and present and the road ahead; Silverthorne Theater presents “The Revolutionists” —we speak with Director Gina Kaufmann and actor Kyle Boatwright; then, Donnabelle Casis’ ArtBeat.

Now We Know Who Rat F*$ed Us (It’s Not This Guy)

9/12: David Daley, author of Ratf***ked, on the recently-revealed elaborate scheme to undermine American elections; Jane Yolen, Massachusetts Book Award winner for “Mapping the Bones;”
“The Reverend and the Rabbi” with Peter Ives, Justin David and Anna Woofenden.

Black & White & Read All Over

9/11: Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Sembene! @ The Ashfield Film Festival

9.10.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with the folks from the Ashfield Film Festival about an exciting movie coming to town

Like A Motherless Child

9.9.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks parenting with best-selling author Kim John Payne. Plus a new Leonard Basking “Resistance” retrospective and the Michaelson Gallery in Northampton. And Black in The Valley with Prof. Carlie C. Tartakov & Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks to discuss the artistic response to the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship on the shores of this continent with Dr. Ruth Bass Green & Ingrid Askew.

Are We Accidentally Growing Poop Aliens on The International Space Station?

9.6.19 Dr. Salman Hameed guest hosts and talks the latest with Hampshire College’s tiny incoming class. Plus the even TINIER microorganisms that we may be inadvertently growing out of human gross on the ISS. And Art Beat with Donabelle on the new photo exhibit at 33 Hawley.

PhD(ebt)

9.5.19 Max Page guest hosts and talks with Caitlin Zaloom about her new book Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. Plus the Reverend and The Rabbi on Trump’s dogwhistle anti-semitism

Go UMax

9.4.19 Max Page, VP of the Mass Teacher’s Association, guest hosts and talks to his President, Merrie Najimy about recess, high-stakes testing and all things education.

Recent Headlines

20 hours ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

20 hours ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

1 day ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

2 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

2 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.