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Boston Public Radio Podcast

WGBH Educational Foundation

Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. We feature our favorite conversation from each show. To hear the full show, please visit wgbhnews.org/bpr To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call or text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11AM-2PM Monday through Friday.

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Best Of BPR 6/09: Trump's Law-And-Order Hypocrisy &...

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2025/06/09

Today:Trump deployed the national guard in California, without the consent of Governor Gavin Newsom. We talk through the existential questions of presidential authority with retired federal judge Nancy Gertner. Plus, her suspicions about the government's new charges of human trafficking against a man they wrongly deported, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.And, journalist Adam Chandler argues in his new book “99% Perspiration” that the American Dream equating hard work with success has turned out to be

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02:40:57

BPR Full Show 6/6: The Trump & Musk Feud

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2025/06/06

WSJ Callum Borchers & GBH Adam Reilly for Press Play this week. They’ll discuss the latest efforts to defund PBS & NPR. The Light in the Piazza is the latest musical at the Huntington Theatre Company. We’ll hear performances from leads Sarah-Anne Martinez and Josh Grosso for this week’s edition of Live Music Friday.Dan Primack, business editor at Axios, joins to talk about steel tariffs, the latest re: the GOP megabill.Parke Wilde, Julia Hansen, and Peter Watson were arrested last

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38:25

Best Of BPR 6/06: Protesting Hanscom AFB Expansion &...

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2025/06/06

Today:Last year, climate activists Parke Wilde, Julia Hansen, and Peter Watson were arrested protesting the proposed expansion of Bedford’s Hanscom Field – the second busiest airport in New England, behind Logan. They join to discuss the importance of civil disobedience, and standing up for the climate.And, Live Music Friday with the lead love interests of Huntington Theatre Company's production of 'The Light in the Piazza' - Sarah-Anne Martinez and Josh Grosso.

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02:41:19

BPR Full Show 6/5: Are We Protesting Enough?

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2025/06/05

BPR Full Show 6/5: Are We Protesting Enough?

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37:59

Best Of BPR 6/04: "A Heavier Silence" For...

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2025/06/04

Today:Ahead of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice holiday, we talk with the Palestinian owners of two local bakeries: Abdulla Awad of Yafa Bakery in Somerville and Sami Herbawi of Andala Coffee House in Cambridge. And, we talk with two the leaders of two New Hampshire-based aid groups for Ukraine: Alan Himmer of the Ukraine Crisis Aid Group, and Susan Mathison of the New Hampshire-based Common Man for Ukraine.

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02:41:35

BPR Full Show 6/4: Palestinian Cafe Owners on Eid

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2025/06/04

BPR Full Show 6/4: Palestinian Cafe Owners on Eid

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37:40

Best Of BPR 6/03: Carol Rose On 1,500 People Deported...

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2025/06/03

Today:Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, discusses the impacts of federal immigration actions in the state -- including the detainment of an 18 year old.Lee Pelton, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation, former president of Emerson College, discusses the state of higher education.

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02:40:51

BPR Full Show 6/03: Incompetence Takes Control

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2025/06/03

BPR Full Show 6/03: Incompetence Takes Control

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02:33:30

BPR Full Show 6/02: Hello, Western Mass.

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2025/06/02

We open the lines on the state of immigration raids in Massachusetts. Over the weekend, an 18-year-old in Milford was detained by ICE.Michael Curry of the NAACP and Mass League of Community Health Centers discusses the state of police reform five years after George Floyd's murder and why state Democrats are warning of harm to the health care system under Trump's budget proposal.UN humanitarian aid worker Olga Cherevko zooms in to discuss the latest conditions in Gaza.Boston Globe business

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37:29

Best Of BPR 6/02: US-Backed Aid To Gaza Is Not 'In...

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2025/06/02

Today:Olga Cherevko of the United Nations office for coordination of humanitarian aid describes the state of hunger, destruction and despair in Gaza.Michael Curry, head of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and a member of the NAACP board of directors, discusses impacts of proposed Medicaid cuts in the GOP budget and the rollback of diversity and police reform initiatives nationwide.

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02:33:21

BPR Full Show 5/30: Double Dip That Chip

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2025/05/30

Margery and Jim have the day off. BPR regulars Andrea Cabral and Shirley Leung take over the mics.It's Live Music Friday with Grammy-nominated violinist Christina Day Martinson and filmmaker Nathaniel Hansen. Martinson is a Grammy-nominated violinist with Handel and Hyden and Boston Baroque, and the focus of Hansen's documentary A Second Movement.Molly Baldwin leads the community violence reduction nonprofit Roca and Jenna Leschuk is Senior Director of Development at 826 Boston. They join

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39:32

Best Of BPR 5/30: Local Nonprofits Navigate New...

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2025/05/30

Today: Andrea Cabral and Shirley Leung fill in for Jim and Margery.They host a panel with the leaders of two local nonprofits to discuss the current environment for organizations dealing with federal pressure and losing federal funding – Molly Baldwin from the violence reduction group Roca and Jenna Leschuk of 826 Boston.Then, Live Music Friday with Grammy-nominated violinist Christina Day Martinson. She joins with filmmaker Nathaniel Hansen, who’s made a documentary about Christina,

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40:57

Best Of BPR 5/29: Trump's 'Destructive' Isolationism...

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2025/05/29

Today:Ambassador Nicholas Burns was the United States’ top diplomat in China under the Biden administration. He discusses Trump’s tariffs, and international diplomacy writ large.Then we get listener reaction to news that another family feud is brewing at Market Basket, more than a decade after CEO Arthur T DeMoulas garnered massive community support in the last brouhaha over his business model and shareholder profit.

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02:40:49

BPR Full Show 5/29: Market Basket Drama

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2025/05/29

BPR Full Show 5/29: Market Basket Drama

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02:33:59

BPR Full Show 5/28: I Know It, I Totally Know It!

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2025/05/28

Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the State Department ordering a pause on all student visas, the Heritage Foundation's plan to stifle pro-Palestinian speech, and updates on the killing of two Israeli Embassy aides in Washington, DC.Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins for Ask The Mayor.Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery discusses a Florida woman who rescued a tangled shark and how one Chicago building made a simple change to stop birds from crashing into its

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38:42

Best Of BPR 5/27: Assumption University President On...

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2025/05/27

Today:Greg Weiner, President of Assumption University, argues Trump has a point about liberal campus ideology. And Rick Steves joins for a conversation about the importance of immersing yourself in other cultures.

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02:41:14

BPR Full Show 5/27: Trump Vs. Massachusetts

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2025/05/27

BPR Full Show 5/27: Trump Vs. Massachusetts

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28:01

Best Of BPR 05/23: Trump's 'Dehumanizing' Ban On...

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2025/05/23

Today:We start the show with two Harvard international students, with reaction to President Trump revoking their school’s ability to enroll international students just like them.Then it’s Live Music Friday ahead of the Campfire Festival at Club Passim this weekend in Harvard Square. Jessye DeSilva performs for us here at the library … And we hear from her and Passim managing director Matt Smith.

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02:34:01

BPR Full Show 5/23: You'll Be A Dentist

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2025/05/23

Abdullah Shahid Sial and Leo Gerdén are two international students from Harvard University. They react to the Trump administration's move yesterday to revoke the school's ability to enroll international students. Then it's Live Music Friday with Jessye DeSilva, ahead of an appearance at Club Passim’s Campfire Festival. Passim Managing Director Matt Smith also joins. NBC Boston's Sue O’Connell gives us the latest on the Karen Read trial. Plus, thoughts on the Sean Combs trial and the Boston

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29:02

Best Of BPR 5/22: A Trump-Free Music-Filled Podcast,...

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2025/05/22

Today: A music panel highlighting some great local events and artists, from the Newport Folk Festival to the jazz offerings around town. We talk with Brian McCreath of CRB, James Bennett II of GBH News, and Berklee’s Emmett Price.

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