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.
