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

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Halloween candy sales are off to a slow start this year as U.S. consumers grapple with high living costs and eye-popping chocolate prices. Halloween candy sales fell 6.7% in the month ending Oct. 17 compared to the same period last year, according to NielsenIQ, a market research firm.

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The Ballon d'Or winners will be announced on Monday with a new generation of soccer stars, led by Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé, ready to stamp their name on the trophy that for so long was a personal duel between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Facing a ban on horse-drawn carriages, Central Park’s drivers fear for their future

The horse-drawn carriages that have cruised through Central Park for more than 150 years will soon be banished from New York City, ending an iconic tradition beloved by tourists but long opposed by animal welfare activists.

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World Series preview: Surprising Rays-Brewers showdown to open with Jacob Misiorowski’s record heat

The Miz will try to whiz his famous fastball by batters on baseball's biggest stage, opening a new-look World Series between teams guaranteed to produce a first-time champion.