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.
People Speak
3/10/23: Rep. Natalie Blais on our schools’ crucial need for state money now; Northampton School Committee Vice-Chair Gwen Agna on choosing (they’re getting close) the new superintendent; ArtBeat featuring Don Sanders, Director of Mass. Int’l Festival of Arts, on the restored WPA murals in Holyoke; Community Action with E.D. Clare Higgins and Energy Director Peter Wingate on our neighbors without heat; former Northampton City Council President (former Mayor Clare Higgins stays with us) on civility, or lack thereof, in public comment.
Tones and More
3/9/23: Members of Northampton High School’s a cappella group, the Northamptones, sing for us—a preview of Sunday’s Silver Chord Bowl. Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies, on the War in Ukraine and avoiding war over Taiwan; Rabbi Riqi Kosovske, of Congregation Beit Ahavah, on Purim, International Women’s Day and antisemitism. Johanna Neumann, Amherst-based Senior Director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy at Environment America and DHG columnist, with some good news –finally! Take Five with Glenn Siegel and Angelica Sanchez, pianist-composer, on her concert Friday with the great trumpeter, Wadada Leo Smith, at Amherst College’s Buckley Recital Hall.
Inner and Outer Space
3/8/23: Amherst College Professor of Humanities, Ilan Stavans, on his new fascinating book,“The People’s Tongue;” Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Larry Hott, on the upcoming Oscars; UMass. astrophysicist, astronomer and member of the James Webb Space Telescope team, Kate Whitaker, on peering into time and space; UMass. Minutewomen’s basketball coach, Tory Verdi, on the team’s amazing season and the post-season.
Tier and Tears
3/7/23: Economic development specialist Michael Kane on Congressman John Olver, the Northern Tier, and their friendship; activists Susan Lantz and Paki Wieland on International Women’s Day and tears over reversal of Roe v. Wade; Senator Paul Mark on student debt and the laws to protect workers that he hopes to pass this session; Play Bill with Jackie Walsh on “Intimate Apparel” by Silverthorne Theater Company, now at Hawks and Reed, with director Jasmine Brooks and the lead, Tahmie Der.
Home
3/6/23: Senator Jo Comerford on her bills this legislative session, including Death with Dignity; Northampton Mayor G.L. Sciarra on Eric Suher’s licenses and the future of downtown Northampton; WNEU law professor emeritus Bruce Miller on the Supreme Court killing Biden’s student debt relief program; Megan Zinn and author Jennifer Rosner on Jennifer’s new historical novel “Once We Were Home,” about kids during WWII being ripped from their families and raised by others.
Lucky 13
3/4/23: Dan Rist on leaving the Easthampton City Council after 13 terms; former Mass. Senate President and John Olver staffer, Stan Rosenberg, on the Congressman’s legacy; MTA President Max Page on Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed budget for higher ed; Western Mass. Governor’s Councilor Tara Jacobs on her first days on the job; Hampshire professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on aliens, the Big Bang Theory and the time on the moon.
Congress and All That Jazz
3/2/23: Congressman Jim McGovern on working with Republicans in the House; FABULOUS MUSIC—We preview this weekend’s Back Porch Festival with Sandy Bailey— performing live in the studio; Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on the new semester—starting now—of the Sojourner Truth School for Social Justice Leadership – Science and Sensibility with Brian Adams and Emma Ellsworth, Exec. Dir. of the Mount Grace Land Trust; Take Five with Ruth Griggs and Carol Abbe Smith, scatting live in the studio.
What About the Rule of Law?
3/1/23: Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan on crime and policing in our region; Cool Films with Larry Hott on documentary films that deserve our attention, Retrograde and Turn Every Page; Mireille Bejjani on Thursday’s “Boston Fee Party” and its call for Democratic Representation and Clean Energy; Law Professor Mark Denbeaux on the detailed study of the January 6th insurrectionists and DoJ’s response by the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy & Research.
Trump Indictment??
2/28/23: Political Gold with Consultant Josh Silver on Trump’s legal jeopardy and his 2024 presidential aspirations; Black in Valley with Jacqueline Smith-Crooks’ remembrance of Professor John Bracey, and the Voices of Resilience Museum exhibit curated by Professor Janine Fondon and exhibit scholar Dr. Demetria Shabazz; Fair Play with Duke Goldman on the physical and mental health issues faced by today’s athletes; and Jackie Walsh’s Playbill with Iranian director Behnam Alibakhshi on UMass Theater’s “Aurash,” a play based on an important Persian myth.
Honoring Olver
2/27/23: John Olver’s life and legacy with Mayors Roxann Wedegartner and David Narkewicz, and Representatives Ellen Story and Natalie Blais. Gazette and Recorder Executive Editor, Dan Crowley, on covering Congressman Olver and cancelling Dilbert. New York Times best-selling author Josh Mensch on “The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill;” and Writer’s Block with Megan Zinn and Margot Douaihy on her mystery “Scorched Grace.”
