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.  

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.”

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