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

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