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

13 hours ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

13 hours ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

20 hours ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

2 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

2 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.