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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 11/19: Yo Yo Ma's 'We The People'

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2025/11/19

Today:Cellist Yo Yo Ma previews his sold out Celebrity Series of Boston performance is this Friday at Symphony Hall: “We the People: Celebrating Our Shared Humanity.” It will be simulcast free of charge at more than 20 venues across the state, from Cape Cod to North Adams. For more information, go to CelebritySeries.Org

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02:42:53

BPR Full Show 11/19: Yo-Yo Ma Gets A Smug Mug!

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2025/11/19

BPR Full Show 11/19: Yo-Yo Ma Gets A Smug Mug!

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02:41:24

BPR Full Show 11/18: Ask The Mayor November Edition

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2025/11/18

BPR Full Show 11/18: Ask The Mayor November Edition

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28:33

Best Of BPR 11/17: Rickey 'FuQuan' McGee Is Free And...

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2025/11/17

Today:Rickey McGee was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the shooting death of a convenience store clerk who was killed during a robbery in the Fenway. For 28 years, McGee maintained his innocence. Behind bars, he co-founded the Harriet Tubman Project in 2021, which brings together incarcerated people fighting wrongful convictions.In October he was released from prison, and thanks to McGee’s own advocacy and the Innocence Program at the Public Defender’s Office, prosecutors

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02:40:50

BPR Full Show 11/17: Trump Economic Storm

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2025/11/17

BPR Full Show 11/17: Trump Economic Storm

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02:32:26

BPR Full Show 11/14: Trusting Media, Shelter Music...

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2025/11/14

The Boston Globe's Nancy Barnes and Shirley Leung join for “Press Play" media analysis. The talk about AI in journalism, new polls about Americans' trust in media, and the 2025 Globe Summit. GBH's Callie Crossley discusses a bill on book banning, new lousy polling numbers for President Trump and Cheryl Hines' new memoir.Shelter Music Boston performs for Live Music Friday. They’re celebrating 15 years of performing in local homeless shelters. We talk with founder Julie Levin, founding

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02:40:53

BPR Full Show 11/13: Government Shutdown Has Ended

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2025/11/13

BPR Full Show 11/13: Government Shutdown Has Ended

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02:32:37

BPR Full Show 11/12: Potatoes!

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2025/11/12

The Culture Show's Jared Bowen discusses Norman Rockwell's family speaking out against the Trump administration for warping his legacy and Serj Tankian's exhibit at the Armenian Museum in Watertown.Comedian and actor Tom Papa joins ahead of a show on his "Grateful Bread" tour.Boston Ballet executive director Ming Min Hui and artistic director Mikko Nissinen discuss their current production of 'Jewels' and their original production of The Nutcracker.NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell joins

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Best Of BPR 11/11: Axios' Dan Primack On All The...

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2025/11/11

Today: The Trump family is raking it in on the crypto-currency market. We talk to Axios Boston business editor Dan Primack about all the ways the Trump family is using the presidency to grow their personal wealth. Then, Congressman Jake Auchincloss discusses the government shutdown, the Democratic party's future, and Veterans Day.

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02:40:42

BPR Full Show 11/11: Service In The Age Of Trump

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2025/11/11

BPR Full Show 11/11: Service In The Age Of Trump

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02:33:18

BPR Full Show 11/10: The Case Of Jim's Archives

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

2025/11/10

We start the show by getting your reactions to the Senate Democrats who agreed to help Republicans re-open the government. President Trump just gave a pardon to former Mr. Four Seasons Landscaping himself, Rudy Giuliani – along with dozens others – for charges related to trying to overthrow the free and fair 2020 election. We discuss that and more with Brian McGrory, former editor of the Boston Globe and current head of Journalism at Boston University. As the senate makes progress on ending

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02:33:48

BPR Full Show 11/7: Pass Go, Collect $200

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2025/11/07

It's our Friday media analysis segment “Press Play” with NBC 10 Boston's media maven Sue O’Connell and GBH’s Adam Reilly, on the Pentagon’s new MAGA press crew and a new report showing teens think the media is biased and boring. As the Trump administration continues its assault on free thought and open inquiry, how are local libraries weathering the storm? We ask Boston Public Library’s David Leonard and Watertown Free Public Library’s Kim Long.Then it's Live Music Friday with veteran

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02:41:10

BPR Full Show 11/6: How To Share Office Donuts

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2025/11/06

BPR Full Show 11/6: How To Share Office Donuts

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02:33:37

BPR Full Show 11/5: Ask The Governor!

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2025/11/05

Governor Maura Healey joins for Ask the Governor.Then we open the phone lines to hear listener reactions to yesterday's elections results. Faith Soloway, Bitch and Melissa Ferrick are all part of a musical comedy show "One Long Earring." They perform ahead of a show tomorrow night at the Crystal Ballroom.GBH's Jared Bowen discusses Kennedy Center ticket sales plummeting and Serj Tankian's exhibit at the Armenian Museum in Watertown.CNN chief national correspondent John King joins for a

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02:41:25

BPR Full Show 11/4: Ask The Attorney General

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2025/11/04

Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell takes from audience members.Senator Ed Markey on the government shutdown, food access, and small businesses feeling the pressure amid tariffs. The Boston Foundation's Lee Pelton joins to discuss how the government shutdown is impacting nonprofit workTiffani Faison and Zimu Chen are restaurateurs behind two of Boston Magazine's favorite new spots: Bubble Bath + Darling. They join to discuss

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Best Of BPR 11/03: Everyone Has A Role in Resistance...

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2025/11/03

Today:ACLU of Massachusetts executive director Carol Rose discusses the challenges to the rule of law under the current presidential administration, and the legal victories holding those in power accountable. And David Shapiro, head of the YMCA of Greater Boston, discusses how his organization is joining the effort to keep vulnerable Massachusetts residents fed through the government shutdown. Boston residents can visit Boston.gov/SNAP or call Boston 311 to learn more about the City

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02:32:51

BPR Full Show 11/3: Come Together...At The Table

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2025/11/03

National security expert Juliette Kayyem on the investigation into an explosion at a Harvard Medical School building over the weekend, and President Trump’s continued attacks on Venezuelan boats, even as the UN cites human rights violations. Plus, why he's threatening U.S. military action in Nigeria.Carol Rose of the ACLU of Massachusetts discusses the ACLU-led class action suit on behalf of detained immigrants who have been denied bond hearings. Plus, whether the U.S. supreme court will

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02:32:05

BPR Full Show 10/31: Happy Halloween

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

2025/10/31

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island discusses the government shutdown and his latest efforts to limit the influence of special interest groups in elections.GBH's Callie Crossley weighs in on SNAP benefits drying up, a new debate around autonomous vehicles in Boston and Trump reinstalling a confederate statue in D.C. Nick Shea is a rapper/portrait artist who’s grown an online following since starting a $1 portrait project on Boston Common three years ago. He joins for Live Music Friday

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Best Of BPR 10/30: A Dispatch From Boston School...

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2025/10/30

Today:Brandon Cardet Hernandez, member of the Boston Public School Committee, discusses the literacy bill making its way through Beacon Hill, bell-to-bell phone bans in schools, and getting rid of the MCAS as a graduation requirement.Then economic scholar Chuck Collins discusses his latest book: Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet.

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02:41:09

BPR Full Show 10/30: Day 30 Of Shutdown

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

2025/10/30

BPR Full Show 10/30: Day 30 Of Shutdown

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