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.
Blaising Saddles
2/10/23: Representative Natalie Blais on cannabis cultivation, protecting farmland, and dramatic changes at UMass Amherst; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Coalition to End Gun Violence, Ruth Zakarin, on the fight here for new gun safety laws; ArtBeat with Kim Carlino and Luke Jaeger; Dan Torres on the January 6th Committee report—a detailed analysis.
Live in the Studio!
2/9/23: This weekend’s Youth Performance Festival in Northampton with Co-directors Sarah Marcus and Kelly Silliman and the performers—from a fourth grader to a high school senior; Rabbi Riqi Kosovske on the tragic earthquake in Turkey and Syria and our response; Professors Brain Adams and Denise Baden (live from the U.K.) on climate fiction and fact; Take Five with Bruce Niemczyk and Ruth Griggs –they trip out on jazz cruising.
Northampton Youth Performance Festival:
https://www.nohoarts.org/youth-performance-festival
Activists Welcome!
2/8/23: Nicholas Dawidoff on his acclaimed new book “The Other Side of Prospect;” “Plant, The Musical” with Serious Play Artistic Director Sheryl Stoodley; Attorney Ruth Greenberg on her case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, asserting that life without parole for people under 21 is unconstitutional; and David Fenton on “The Activist’s Media Handbook.”
Crime and Punishment
2/7/23: Crime and Punishment with Attorney John Pucci on prosecuting bad cops; civil rights attorney Michael Meltsner on fighting for civil rights in the South in the 1960s and today; Senator Paul Mark on the Green Bank, regulating soaring electricity prices, and paying to repair local roads.
Senator Jo Comerford on East-West Rail and End-of Life Options
2/6/23: Senator Jo Comerford on East-West Rail and End-of Life Options; Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra on pot shops, seven more all-alcohol licenses, reparations, and the new Department of Climate Action and Project Administration (CAPA); Constitutional Law Professor Bruce Miller on why the debt ceiling law is unconstitutional; and Writers Block with Megan Zinn and Narissa Nields.
GTMO!
2/3/23: Buz and Bill on yesterday’s transfer of Magid Kahn from Guantanamo; Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Max Page and Vice President Deb McCarthy on the big news about MCAS; the fabulous women sports coach Sherry Webb on local girls and women’s sports; and The Good Thing with Jeff Napolitano.
Our House with Congressman Jim McGovern
2/2/23 Congressman Jim McGovern on gun violence, police reform legislation and the debt limit fight; criminal defense and civil rights attorneys David Hoose and Luke Ryan on police strike forces; Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on reparations; Brian Adams with landscape designer Brain Wormser; “Take Five” with Glenn Siegel and trumpeter Joe Magnerelli.
Ellsberg, Pot Shops, Alzheimer’s and Culomba
2/1/23: Chris Appy, UMass Professor of History and Director of the Ellsberg Initiative, on Daniel Ellsberg. war, the Espionage Act, and whistleblowing; Garrick Perry, Ward 4 Northampton City Councilor on the new pot shop ordinance; Meghan Lemay, from the Alzheimer Ass’n, on the signs of dementia and what to do; and LIVE IN THE STUDIO—six members of Culomba—they sing beautiful harmonies – it’s incredible music—a preview of their concert this weekend.
Calls from Prison; Reparations in Amherst
1/31/23: Peter Wagner, Exec. Director of the Prison Policy Initiative, on calls from prisons; Dave Wattles, from Mass. Wildlife, on the black bears in our backyards; UMass. Amherst professor Amilcar Shabazz and Amherst Town Councilor Michele Miller on reparations; Play Bill with Jackie Walsh and actors Peter Evangalista and Sara Linares on “Native Gardens,” now at the Majestic.
Political Gold with Josh Silver on Talk the Talk
1/30/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver, former CEO of Represent Us, on Trump and other Republican presidential contenders; War and Peace with Michael Klare, Nation magazine Defense Correspondent, on the state of the War in Ukraine; Professor Richard Wolff on the debt ceiling and “The Sickness Is the System;” and Writer’s Block with Megan Zinn and local Sci-fi author James Cambias on his new book, “The Scarab Mission.”
