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).
Will Hampshire Live Free or Die?
2/4: Hampshire College Professors Salman Hameed and Jennifer Hamilton (who also is President of the Hampshire College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors) discuss the future (or not)
of the college.
Your Monday Morning Cuppa Jo
2/4: State Senator Jo Comerford, whose regular segment on our show is the first Monday of the month, talks to us about rules, bills, politics, and transparency. “Black in the Valley” with artist Candance Hunter on “So Be It. See To It,” her amazing work, inspired by Octavia Butler, now exhibited at the Hampshire College Art Gallery. And yes, a minute of Monte gloating about the Patriots.
Is This The End of Hampshire?
2/1: First—total joy—live in the studio—the amazing Northampton High School a capella group, the Northamptones, who will be performing at the Silver Chord Bowl a capella show case this Sunday (tickets available at The World Eye, Coopers, State Street and on-line). Then the future (or not) of Hampshire College with professors Salman Hameed and Jennifer Hamilton, President of the Hampshire College chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
In The Aftermath of Violence
1/31: “On the Exhale” –we examine gun violence with Serious Play Theatre Ensemble’s Artistic Director Sheryl Stoodley and Managing Director Robin Doty and BU Medical School’s Dr. Bindu Kalesan; then, The Reverend(s) Peter Ives and Florence Congregational Church Pastor Irv Gammon and the Rabbi(s) – Congregation B’nai Israel’s Justin David and Beit Ahavah’s Riqi Kosovske – sharing a story of community and compassion.
Whipped Cream and Other Delights
1/30: Sports, Man! Scott Coen on the Patriots and the President; Sex Matters (complete with fruit and Whip Cream) with our resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
I’d Like To Thank The Academy
1/29: Northampton-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and a voting member of the Academy, Larry Hott, on films nominated for an Academy Award; Jack Hersch, author of “Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust.”
Mayor Micole Monday
1/28: “Mayor’s Monday,” now a regular segment, on the third Monday of the month, with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of the Northampton-based national organization Represent. US.
Barbara Is Back from The LA Teachers Strike
1/25: MTA Veep, Max Page, and Education Coordinator for Labor Notes and recent President of the MTA, Barbara Madeloni, on the teachers strike in LA (where Barbara has been); David Treuer, author of “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present;” Kerstin Nordstrom, MHC Professor of Physics, on the end of the universe and the Sci-Tech Café; and ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.
The Clarke School Controversy
1/24: Dusty Christensen on allegations of abuse at the Clarke School for the Deaf –read his superlative investigative reporting at gazettenet.com; Gabrielle Hartley, Northampton-based family law attorney and mediator, on her new book “Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate;” Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on Mariano Rivera’s unanimous selection to Baseball’s Hall of Fame; the history of Jews in Northampton; and a beautiful eulogy for beloved City leader Gerald Budgar by the rabbi.
The Prescient Pucci on The President’s Problems
1/23: Former Director of the DOJ U.S. Attorney’s Office for Western Massachusetts, John Pucci, on the Mueller investigation, Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen; Daniel Bullen on Shays Rebellion and the postponement (due to the government shutdown) of the celebration of the power of peaceful ( yes, largely peaceful!) protest; then, Vaya con Munoz– Natalia Munoz on the government shutdown in, and Senator Warren’s visit to, Puerto Rico and why the ravages of Hurricane Maria remain.
