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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Tony Benna, Director of "Andre is an Idiot", which screens at newportFILM Thurs Aug. 14, at 8:10 p.m. on O'Hare Lawn at Salve Regina.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Kim Anderson, owner of plant-based food hall and market Plant City.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Navigant Credit Union President and CEO Kathleen Orovitz for a discussion on the institution's new partnership with Bryant University.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Providence School Board President Ty'Relle Stephens and elected member Corey Jones.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes John Campopiano and Jim Beller to discuss the forthcoming Jaws documentary "The Farmer and The Shark"

John Campopiano is an award winning New England documentary filmmaker, archivist, writer, and producer. For the last decade he has worked as the Archives & Rights Manager for the Emmy & Academy Award- winning PBS documentary film series FRONTLINE and has written and produced independent documentaries including Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary (2017); Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made (2021); Pennywise: The Story of IT (2022) which premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain and won FANGORIA’s Chainsaw Award for Best Documentary in 2023; Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2023); and the upcoming Sasqua: The Lost Bigfoot Film of Massachusetts.

Jim Beller is a leading authority on the history of the blockbuster film Jaws. He owns the largest memorabilia collection of the film’s merchandise in the US which was featured at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain in 2005. Jim has consulted for many films and television productions including The Shark is Still Working (Independent), Animal Icons (Animal Planet), JAWS: The Inside Story (Bravo), Shark Week (Discovery Channel), Fanatics: JAWS World’s Largest Memorabilia Collection (Reelz Channel), and JAWS @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (Amblin Entertainment). He is also the co-creator of the book, JAWS: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard with author Matt Taylor.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes congressman Seth Magaziner for a discussion on major global, national and local issues.

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Bill Bartholomew welcomes Dara Benno, an artist and Providence-based designer focused on addressing critical challenges, including environmental issues; she is also a Strategic Design + Research Fellow at RISD. Her design practice is centered around social impact and climate action. Her work focuses on how creative practice can influence change and how as a society, we can exercise imagination to work toward creating a better future. She moved from attending her local farmers market weekly to joining this program at URI and even planned a zero waste trivia night for the program. She says this experience was a kickstarter for her.

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Bill Bartholomew speaks with Maren Morris at Newport Folk 2025.

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Bill Bartholomew offers his take on some artists to catch at this weekend's Newport Folk Festival.

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Providence Streets Coalition's Dylan Giles joins Bill Bartholomew to discuss the upcoming Transit-Oriented Beach Day and general Rhode Island transit developments.

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