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”
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.
