Podcasts: Talk The Talk

Talk The Talk

Weekdays 8:00 -10:00 a.m. EST; rebroadcast 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST

Bill Newman and Friends host newsmakers, activists, authors, & artists – including:

Mayors Monday(Northampton, Holyoke, Easthampton) & Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman, Salman Hameed’s Universe, the Comedy Quiz, Black In the Valley (Professor Amilcar Shabazz) Political Gold (Josh Silver), Our House (Congressman Jim McGovern), DA David Sullivan, Writers Block (Megan Zinn), Science and Sensibility (Brian Adams), Righting Wrongs (ACLUM Carol Rose), State Senators Comerford & Mark, Representatives Sabadosa, Duffy, & Domb, ArtBeat (Donnabelle Casis), Cool Films (Larry Hott), Feminist Futures (Carrie Baker), Talkin’ Baseball & Fair Play (Duke Goldman), Your State U (MTA Pres. Max Page) All That Jazz (Ruth Griggs & John Anz), Exec. Editor, DHG & Gfld Recorder, Dan Crowley.  

Marching On & Mushing On   

11/21/23:  888-323-HOPE with David Sullivan, Jim McGovern, Dan Carey, Jo Comerford, Mindy Domb. & Monte. Hilltown Sled Dogs with Marla BB –mushy stuff. Comedy Quiz—Talkin’ Turkey with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, Sally Eckis and WINNER JESS TYLER. Carrie Bake with Beth Lev from Indivisible Northampton, Swing Left Western Mass.  Brian Adams with Northampton Survival Center’s Heidi Nortonsmith and Alexander Le’ger-Small.

March for The Food Bank

11/20/23:  Monte!+ Rep. Jim McGovern, Food Bank’s Andrew Moorhouse & Chicopee Mayor John Vieau.  Rev. Michael McSherry on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Filmmaker Larry Hott, on “American Symphony” & “Pianoforte.”  Local author Robert Radin on “Noche Triste: A Memoir of Anorexia.”

Community Action 

11/17/23: Monte Belmonte on the March. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on the legislature’s failure to pass a budget. MTA Pres Max Page on the Andover educators’ strike & unfunded contracts. Community Action’s Clare Higgins on housing. Dr. Kate Atkinson & Adriana Piantedosi on concierge medicine.  

Dan Crowley

The Front Page

11/16/23: N’hmtn Main Street Redesign & “A History of Boston” with attorney Daniel Dain. DHG & Recorder Exec. Editor Dan Crowley on big stories & the Amherst reveal. Take action! with GCC prof. emeritus Brian Adams, Susan Theberge (Climate Action Now) & Naia Tenerowicz (Spfld Climate Justice Coalition). Glenn Seigel with guitarist Jim Matus.

Young@Heart

11/15/23: A Twist & Crawl preview with Bob Cilman, Medford Boston, Helen Boston, Alycia Duffy, Ro Duffy, Emily Reardon, & Jen Polins. What’s cooking at the Cancer Connection with Paul Sustick of Paul & Elizabeth’s and Exec. Dir. Chelsea Kline.  “While we Watched” with  Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott.

School Days

11/14/23: Rep. Patricia Duffy on health care for all, guns, climate change & school receivership. SABR star Duke Goldman on the Red Sox & the World Series. Todd Gazda, Educ. Collab. E.D., on funding rural schools. Amherst School Comm. Member-Elect Sarah Marshall on Amherst schools facing a fiscal cliff.

Increase, Decrease, End, Build

11/13/23: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on voting, crime & schools. Amilcar Shabazz, Vira Douangmany Cage, & Ellisha Walker on the Dr. Demetria Shabazz Center for the Arts. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on young people losing faith in democracy. Stefan Ward-Wheaton & Ed Malachowski celebrate Valley Free Radio. Megan Zinn with James Jennings on “Wings of Red.”

Remembrances & Retrospectives

11/10/23: Rep Natalie Blais – her Veterans Day memories & legislation. MTA Pres Max Page with local union VP Julian DiGloria on the Andover educators’ strike that began today. Betsy Stone with Richard Roy on his retrospective at Art for the Soul Gallery. Nick Simmons on his repurposing wood and purposing students. Jacki Ochs & Dan Keller on “Vietnam:The Secret Agent.”

 

Joe Belmont

Stand Pat & Political Gold: Music to Our Ears

11/9/23: Political consultant Josh Silver on this week’s elections. Sports, Man! Scott Coen on the Pats. Nhmptn City Council Pres. Jim Nash on the free speech debate. Rabbi Riqi on Hamas & Israel. Brian Adams with Rusty Ingold-Smith on solar power. Ruth Griggs with fabulous guitarist Joe Belmont.

Picture This: Sights, Sounds & War

11/8/23: Cool Films with Larry Hot (“32 Sounds”- amazing!). Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art E.D.s Alexandra Kennedy & Jennifer Schantz. Live in the Studio: Forest Avenue — Eveline MacDougall, Desi Lowit, Dan Frank & John Clark. What would Daniel Ellsberg say about Israel & Gaza? with UMass prof Chris Appy & author Norman Solomon.

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