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).

Tim Apple

4.18.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Leander Kahney about his new book on Apple’s frontman. A brief history of Barr. Serious Play and their new work featuring the music of Jonny Rodgers as Cindertalk and the Rev and The Rabbi with the leader of the Karuna Center on 25 years post Rwandan genocide.

The Green New Earth Day

4.17.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with organizers of the Earth Day/Green New Deal forum in Northampton. Plus Flint Taylor on The Torture Machine in Chicago. And a preview of Silverthorne Theater’s new season.

Movie Quiz!

4.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts as Laura Patrick brings back the comedy quiz with Quizmaster Ben May

Jazz Hands

4.15.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Paul Arslanian about jazz in The Valley. And Black In The Valley with special guest Kent Alexander

Bullet Points

4/12: ”NPR: Northampton Poetry Radio” with erstwhile poet laureate Rich Michelson and the amazing Jericho Brown; Labor Notes Education Coordinator (and former MTA President and former Northampton High School teacher) Barbara Madeloni and MTA Vice President Max Page on labor strife in the Northampton schools and the strike against Stop & Shop; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis And Make-It Springfield (Makers Space) co-founder Laura Masulis.

Palestinian Prisoners Day

Palestinian Prisoners Day “Mensch Marks” with the author, Rabbi Joshua Hammerman; The Reverends and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rev. Margaret Sawyer.

Is Extravaganja going to pot?

4/10: Max Page, MTA Vice President, on the upcoming Northampton School Committee meeting to consider (or not) the salary disparity between Northampton and surrounding school districts; then, April is Autism Awareness Mont, and our guest is Katie Drumm, Program Manager of Autism Connections—we highlight the upcoming western Massachusetts conference; then, coming to the Three County Fairgrounds–ENTRAVAGNAJA –what the City is doing to mess with a mellow time and a political event—we find out from marijuana legalization activist Terry Franklin and UMass. Cannabis Reform Coalition President, Claire Walsh.

If Only Sports Talk Radio Sounded Like This

4/9: It’s Opening Day at Fenway and we are “Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke” (that’s Northampton-based SABRMETRIC star and baseball historian Duke Goldman) and Smith College Professor of Economics and MLB consultant and author of many books on the economics of professional sports, Andrew Zimbalist. We start by with honoring Monte over his most recent honor -at Greenfield Community College yesterday.

Hampshire Lives!

4/8: Political Gold with Josh Silver, the CEO of the Northampton-based national Organization Represent US, on Democrats, money, messaging, polls and prospects (and superbugs); author Marisa Labozzetta on “A Day in June” and her upcoming book reading at the Broadside Bookshop.

UMass and Hampshire: Just Friends or Getting Serious?

4/5: President of the University of Massachusetts, Marty Meehan,on Hampshire College, the legislature, the PROMISE Act and the proposed on-line degree program.

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