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.
Farewell, Not Good-bye, Dear Friends
5/22/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on schools, police, the budget & the law; Black in the Valley with Carlie Tartakov, Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Demetria Shabazz, Amilcar Shabazz, Mindy Domb, & Monte Belmonte; Greenfield political observer David Singer; Megan Zinn and UMass professor & author Yvette Lisa Ndlovu on “Drinking from Graveyard Wells.”
Workers Struggles, Progressive Art, & War
5/19/23: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on legislating sex work and funding transportation; Max Page & PSU President Andrew Gorry on UMass Amherst workers’ victory; Donnabelle Casis & Mead Museum’s Lisa Crossman on “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin;” defense expert Michael Klare on the spring offensive in Ukraine; restoring the Hestia, the Northampton women’s history, Mural, with Rebecca Muller and Linda Bond.
The Beat Goes On
5/18/23: NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio) with Martin Espada, Rich Michelson & Howie Faerstein; Extra Extra with DHG and Gfld Recorder editor Dan Crowley on today’s news and tomorrow’s; Brian Adams and Brian Lapis on today’s weather and tomorrow’s and next week’s; Ruth Griggs with extraordinary percussionist Richie Barshay –wait till you hear this!
Yikes, Bikes! And Lots More
5/17/23: The Bike Breakfast with bike stars GL Sciarra, Karen Foster, George Kohout, Jonathan Brody, James Lowenthal, & Sean Condon; Larry Hott, on Saturday’s sneak preview of “The Niagara Movement;” Sophie Michaux on Tiny Glass Tavern’s “There Shall Be No More Sea;” from the Lyme Disease Resource Center– Maria Malaguti, Exec. Dir., & Nellie Wilson, on avoiding and treating Lyme.
Laughing & Crying Together
5/16/23: “Considering Matthew Sheppard” with Leslea Newman, Sheila Heffernon & Jon Solins (Da Camera Singers) – this Sunday only; the Comedy Quiz on cartoons with Scott Braidman, Maddy Benjamin & Julie Wagoner; Smith professor Carrie Baker & Tapestry Health CEO Cheryl Zoll on birth control & choice; Megan Zinn and Christina Lauren on “The True Love Experiment.”
Searching
5/15/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on the school superintendent search; Center for New Americans Exec. Dir. Laurie Millman and current and former students on Immigrant Voices –Sunday at the Shea; G’fld School Comm. Chair Amy Proietti on slashing the school budget; Megan Zinn with Perugia Press publisher and poet Rebecca Hart Olander on “Uncertain Acrobats.”
The Easthampton School Superintendent Search
5/12/23: Rep. Natalie Blais on dangers to school children from motorists, legislation, the budget, and more; ArtBeat with Betsy Stone and Priya Nadkarni Green on Priya’s amazing show; MTA President Max Page and Professor Daniel Mulcare on our state universities & the Cherish Act; Dr. George Timmons, President-Elect, Holyoke Community College on his vision for HCC; Jeff Napolitano and Easthampton City Council President Homar Gomez on the school superintendent search.
Protests, Beavers, a Candidate & Musicians
5/11/23: Susan Triolo (Code Pink) & Marisol Pierce Bonifaz (Generation Ratify Amherst) on “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” & Saturday’s protests; Belchertown Selectboard candidate Lesa Lessard Pearson; Rabbi Riqi Kosovske on hunger & spring holidays; Brian Adams & naturalist Drew Johnson on beavers, ponds & pellets! Glenn Siegal with Smith College professor, musician & filmmaker Jake Meginsky.
Sneak Preview
5/10/23: Alexandra Kennedy, Exec. Dir. of the Eric Carle Museum, on the search for her successor; Florence-based Larry Hott on the upcoming sneak preview of his new PBS film “The Niagara Movement; Todd Gazda, Dir. of Educational Collaborative, on abolishing MCAS; Wanda Bertram of the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative on women behind the razor wire.
Duffy, Blue, an LGBTQ+ School, & Affordable Housing
5/9/23: Rep. Pat Duffy on the Cherish Act, $ for schools, and much more; Duke Goldman “Talkin’ Baseball” — Sox, Yanks, Tampa Bay and the amazing Vida Blue; educators Allison Druin and Ben Bederson on a new school for LGBTQ+ students in western Mass.; CEOs Alexis Breiteneicher (Valley CDC), Keith Farey (Wayfinders), Gina Govoni (Franklin County Redevelopment Authority) on affordable housing.
