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).

Making It On Main Street, Northampton

6/21: The history and present of Main Street, Northampton –a preview of a magnificent exhibit– with Historic Northampton Co-Directors Laurie Sanders and Elizabeth Sharpe.

An Ill Wind Blows

6/20: The renown Larry Diamond—his newest book is “Ill Winds: Saving Democracy form Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency;” State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on public regional transportation; Rev Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Smith College professor Carrie Baker on the right to abortion fight in Massachusetts.

Hampshire 2.0

6/19: Hampshire College Interim President Ken Rosenthal; Silverthorne Theater ‘s upcoming production of the Fantasticks—a preview.

Ideas On How To Fix The Truck Eating Bridge

6/18: A preview of the Serious Play production “The Wall;” The Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has and quizzer Kelsey Flynn.

Lego My Eho

6/17: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on building a city with Legos! Black in the Valley—a special edition on racial and climate justice with hosts Jaquelyn Smith-Crooks and Carlie Tartakov.

New Bedford Now Un-Chartered Territory

6/7: Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President Max Page on Cherish and Promise

Transforming America’s Prisons

6/6: Emily Bazelon: her new book is “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.”

The Fish Wrap with The Chief Fisherwoman

6/5: Brooke Hauser, editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette —it’s a wrap—a fishwrap; Robbie Leppzer, award-winning filmmaker, on “Power Struggle,” starring Frances Crowe and allies and fellow activists in the community fight against Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant: www.powerstrugglemovie.com; then Peter Whalen and Jeff Bliss on this weekend’s 33 Hawley Street -the Arts Trust — extravaganza.

Grocery Story

6/4: Talking food co-ops here in the Valley with expert and author with Jon Steinman; talkin’ baseball with SABR expert and author Duke Goldman.

Juneteenth

6/3: Celebrate Juneteenth, celebrate freedom –we do on Black in the Valley. Also, State Senator Jo Comerford.

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