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).

Growing Kids On The Farm

9.3.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Ben Murray, farm director at Red Gate Farm about on-the-farm education. Plus discussing end of life issues with Dr. Lewis M. Cohen from UMass Medical Center author of “A Dignified Ending”. And Dr. Diana Alvarez on the upcoming songwriter’s workshop.

Artificial Intelligence: Not Just A Reflection of The Hosts

8.30.19 Josh Silver from Represent.Us guest hosts with Monte and talks AI, the need for recess in schools and on what’s happening in The Valley this weekend.

Remembering Francis Crowe

8.28.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and reflects on the life and legacy of a Valley legend. Plus a preview of free klezmer music in Easthampton. And the author of See Jane Win.

What’s So Funny?

8.27.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Pam Victor, Kelsey Flynn and Scott Braidman from Happier Valley Comedy about what makes funny funny. Turns out, it’s minding your p’s and k’s.

Feeling Sure About Hampshire

8.26 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Hampshire College Professor and Search Committee member, Salman Hameed, about the new President and the new potential of the school. Plus Brian Burrell about his new book “How the Brain Lost its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness”

8/19: Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley

Guns, diapers and the court house. Plus blowing glass!

8/23: Guns, diapers, and the Court House — with State Rep. Mindy Domb; college debt, the new school year, and charter schools — with Mass. Teachers Ass’n Veep, Max Page; glassblowing with ArtBeat host Donnabelle Casis and local glassblower Dan Battat.

Trump, antisemitism, sex and Sox

8/22: Rabbi Justin David on Trump’s recent pronouncements and the rise in anti-Semitism; Dr. Allan H Ropper and UMass Amherst…

A look back at LookStock 2019

A look back at last night’s LookStock with The River’s (and WHMP’s) Joan Holliday; teachers and their local and nationwide struggles with former MTA President (and former Northampton teacher) and now Labor Notes Educational Coordinator, Barbara Madeloni; Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Recent Headlines

59 minutes ago in National

In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump

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It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

18 hours ago in National

Men who brought explosives to NYC protest cited Islamic State as inspiration, complaint says

Two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said.

18 hours ago in National

Uber’s women-only option goes nationwide in the US

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

1 day ago in National

Jury selection to begin in South Florida for 4 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti's former leader, plus related charges.

1 day ago in Trending, World

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran.