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).

Save Hampshire!

4/4: Professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on the extant universe of Hampshire College; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David and George Lakey, whose most recent book is “How We Win: A Guide to Non-Violent Direct Action Campaigning.”

Poets Laureate

4/3: Poets Laureate (erstwhile, still) Martin Espada and Rich Michelson; Vaya con (Natalia) Munoz.

Jesus + Opera=Poetry

4/2: Poets Laureate (erstwhile) Rich Michelson and Patrick Donnelly; Johnny Memphis on “Penny’s from Heaven;” Max Klau, author of “Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, a Call to Action.”

Jo Hill

4/1: Today’s show stars Senator Jo (Takes the (Beacon) Hill) Comerford; then, Black in the Valley with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Kent Alexander, Equity and Inclusion consultant for the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, on reparations.

Why Do All White People Look The Same?

3/29: Jennifer Eberhardt, author of “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do;” Max Page, MTA VP on PROMISE and CHERISH; ArtBeat on Dimensionism with Donnabelle Casis and Dr. Vanja Malloy,
Curator of American Art at the Amherst College Mead Museum.

Talkin’ Baseball!

3/27: Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke (Duke Goldman); Clive Thompson, author of “Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World;” Rev. Peer Ives, Rabbi Justin david and Cooley-Dickinson Chaplain, Carole Bull.

Meet Willie & Mulva!

3/26: “NPR: Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson and Dina Friedman; ‘Waiting for Godot” with the NHS actors and Director; Sex Toys
with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr Jane Fleishman.

Beyond Thunder Domb

3/25: CHERISH and PROMISE and Constitutional Amendments with State Representative Mindy Domb; Northampton Education Foundation’s Lisa Papademetriou on THE BEE.

Promise To Cherish The “Cherish” and “Promise”

3/22: Live from Beacon Hill – Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President Max Page tells us about the Promise Act and the Cherish Act, today’s hearing and their future;
The Sci-Tech Café—a show that you could eat up it’s so good—with MHC prof. Kerstin Nordstrom and UMass. prof. Julian McClements; and then we don’t skip a beat
before ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Riverside Industries’ Halley Philips.

Recent Headlines

6 hours ago in National

In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump

It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

23 hours ago in National

Men who brought explosives to NYC protest cited Islamic State as inspiration, complaint says

Two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said.

23 hours ago in National

Uber’s women-only option goes nationwide in the US

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

1 day ago in National

Jury selection to begin in South Florida for 4 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti's former leader, plus related charges.

1 day ago in Trending, World

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran.