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).

The Heartbeat of Young@Heart

5/2: Live in the studio—The Young@Heart band! Jason Baumann on “The Stonewall Reader;” then, the Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David and Dr. Martha Nathan on climate change.

How The Fish Wrap Gets Made

5/1: Brooke Hauser, editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette; Professor Edward Hess on the future of work in the brave new(ish) world of A.I..

Running for Literacy

4/30: From the Literacy Project –Judith Roberts, E.D., Terri Gurley, & Jenna St. Hilaire; from Northampton Pride—J.M. Sorrell; from the world of climate activism in Easthampton — Judith Breier and Emmalyse Wozniak.

Eho’s Holes

4/29: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle’ s holistic municipal approach to pot and potholes and budgeting and eating. Then, GCC professor emeritus Brian Adams – his new fab novel is “Offline,” and he will be appearing at the Broadside and at Amherst Books.

Dying To Work

4/26: We commemorate Workers Memorial day with attorney Jonathan Karmel, author of “Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace;” then a preview of the Korean
Women’s art at R Michelson Gallery with the grandmother-artist, and the curators; and ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and special guests.

Radical Interconnectedness

4/25: Taking over Turners: Linda McInerney from Eggtooth Productions tells us how, where and why—a delicious creative smorgasbord; Emily Oster, author of
“ Cribsheet: a data-driven guide to better, more relaxed parenting from birth to preschool.”

Singing For Our Suppers

4/24: Live in the studio— NHS’s amazing a capella group, the Northamptones’; Poets Laureate Amy Dryansky and Karen Skofield.

Israel, Free Speech and the Battle for Palestinian Rights

4/23: Sut Jhally, Director of the Media Education Foundation and Professor of Communications at UMass Amherst on the upcoming forum on Palestinian human rights; Poets Rich Michelson and Jane Hirshfield.

A Century of Seeger

4/22: Love in the studio (also live in the studio – that was a typo but a good one) — Peter Blood and Annie Patterson preview the upcoming celebration of Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday.

Radio Ga Ga

4/19: Discuss the state budget while holding a baby who wants to eat your microphone—State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa does it all! Then the Sci -tech Café and ArtsBeat.

Recent Headlines

1 day ago in National

A violent tornado tears through Oklahoma town, damaging 40 homes but sparing lives

Raeann Hunt scrambled to her cellar as a tornado bore down on her Oklahoma community. "It is headed right for us," she recalled thinking, as she peeked outside, unable to contain her curiosity.

1 day ago in National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

2 days ago in Sports, Trending

NFL teams are almost on the clock as draft night in the Steel City has arrived

Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

2 days ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

3 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.