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.

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