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.

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