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).
Them Bones
3/6: “Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone” – we speak with the author, Brian Switek (guess what we want to talk about first!); The Western Mass. Drug Lab Scandal and the mass Mass. exoneration—we speak with Matt Segal, Legal Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts; plus Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz (who shares her thoughts about Bernie).
Is The U.S. Plotting a Coup in Venezuela?
3/5: Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Northampton-based Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of 15 books, on the crisis in Venezuela and the United States’ role; appellate attorneys Molly Ryan Strehorn (of Amherst) and Barb Munro (from Holyoke) on their trip to the South, Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative (“EJI”), and their “Appealing Women’s” confab (complete with fab music, food, adult beverages, and an auction) this weekend at the Deuce– a fundraiser for the EJI; and “Sex Matters” with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, who chats with Monte and Bill about marijuana and sex.
Zucked!
3/4: Roger McNamee, author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” on Facebook and the hijacking of our politics.
Max and The Chancellor
3/1: Max Page talks Hampshire College with UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.
Poetry, Patriots, Pee-Wee Performers and The Planet
Josh Silver guest hosts and talks about gun violence, the economics of saving the planet, 42nd St performed by kids and a segment with Rich Michelson
Where’s The New Revenue?
2.25.19 Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with Max Page and Rep. Aaron Vega about the Promise Act and the Foundation Budget for our schools. Plus Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz on why the city never has enough money to fix all the potholes.
Is Northampton Ready To Support A New Movie Theater?
2/22: Sut Jhally, founder and Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF) and professor and Chair of the Dept. of Communications at UMass. Amherst, and City Councilor and MEF Board member, Bill Dwight, on a movie theater returning to Northampton (or not); the Sci-Tech Café with MHC prof. Kerstin Nordstrom and Hampshire professor Kac’a Bradonjic’ on time and space and now (or not); ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Sunday with Monte (or not).
How Did Massachusetts Help Enshrine Jim Crow?
2/21: Pulitzer Prize-winning WAPO Sr. editor Steve Luxenberg, author of “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation;” Reverend Peter Ives with Cleo Gorman & Ron Ackerman; and then a preview of the upcoming Tea Dance (complete with dance lessons!) starring Mary Witt and the O Tones—a benefit for the Cancer Connection.
It’s February. That means BASEBALL!
2/20: Duke Goldman, Northampton-based baseball historian, remembers Don Newcombe who died yesterday at age 92, and Monte Irvin and Jackie Robinson, icons of the civil rights movement and barrier-breaking stars of major league baseball; Natalia Munoz on Bernie Sanders and the NYT’s recent coverage last Sunday of Puerto Rico; and constitutional law expert and acclaimed author Joel Richard Paul on “Without Precedent: Chief Justice Marshall and His Times
