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).
$chool’$ Out
5/31: Semi-special guest Bill Newman fishwraps on the Buz Eisenberg Show; MTA Veep Max Page on the ongoing education budget battle on Beacon Hill; Sci-Tech Café host, MHC physics professor Kerstin Nordstrom, speaks with and UMass professor of polymer science, Todd Emerick, on polymers and plastics and the environment; this weekend—it’s Florence Arts Night Out—a preview with ArtBeat segment host Donnabelle Casis and filmmaker Luke Jaeger.
Not Charged with A Crime. Still Sent To Jail.
5/30: Lois Ahrens, Founding Director of the Northampton-based Real Cost of Prison Project; Reverends Peter Ives and Liza Knapp on welcoming and affirming churches and the split with fundamentalists and evangelicals.
The Happy Couple
5/29: Climb higher!—The Treehouse Community needs us all –with COO Beth Spong; then, Sex Matters a/k/a SEX MATTERS !! with the show’s resident sexologist Dr. Jane Fleishman.
Equality Reimagined
5/28: Martin Schoenhals on “ Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia—Equality Reimagined;” Amherst College Professor of Geology and co-director of Amherst College’s Beneski Museum of Natural History on dinosaurs in our Valley and their footprints that have come home; then, Joseph Ricker , Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra maestro, and Kelly Silliman, Program Director, Northampton Center for the Arts.
To Promise and To Cherish
5/24: Where are the bodies buried? Or not? MTA Veep Max Page on UMass’s significant contribution to composting human remains and the dearth, if not the demise, of needed funding for the University in the state senate’s just-passed budget;
Western Mass. author Marianne Praeger-Simon on “Dancing with Merce Cunningham” – and a preview of this weekend’s events at 33 Hawley Street; ArtBeat host Donnabelle Casis’s special guest is Diana Rodriguez, Assistant Director of Holyoke-based Artesana.
Ani DiFranco Tears Down Walls
5/23: On our “Reverend and the Rabbi “ segment, Rev. Peter Ives, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Professor Carlie Tartakov, historian and Sojourner Truth Committee board member Wendy Sinton,
and scholarship award- winner Wesley Days talk about Sojourner Truth and her importance to Northampton when she lived her and now — and this coming Sunday’s 18th celebration of the Sojourner Truth statue; also, Grammy Award-winning artist and feminist icon Ani DiFranco on her personal story “No Walls and the Recurring Dream.”
New Hope In Mumia’s Fight For Freedom
5/22: Noelle Hanrahan, founder and producer of Prison Radio and publisher of Mumia Abu Jamal;
Javier Luengo-Garrido, Coordinator of the ACLU of Massachusetts Immigrant Protection Project of Western Massachusetts.
How Easthampton May Shape The Future of Foster Care in Morocco
5/21: From the Treehouse Community: Soulaymane Amansag , Director of a child protection foundation (orphanages only) in Morocco and Kerry Homestead, Community Facilitator. Plus our
monthly Comedy Quiz on New England tourism with the Ha Has Laura Patrick and Pam Victor and contestant Monte Belmonte and Quizmaster Chris Cronin.
Don’t Push The Button To Listen To This Podcast While Driving
5/17: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on the ROE bill, the proposed distracted driver legislation and the Healthy Youth Act (sex ed in schools) ; then on ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis — Florence Pie Bar Poets Floyd Cheung and Jen Blackburn.
