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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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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

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

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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33:11

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

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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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38:04

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

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2025/10/30

BPR Full Show 10/30: Day 30 Of Shutdown

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02:32:48

BPR Full Show 10/29: I Talk, Then You Talk

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

2025/10/29

Boston Globe travel writer Christopher Muther talks about the impact of the government shutdown on air travel, why international tourists are skipping the U.S. and therapy dogs at Logan airport.Kelly Beatty from Sky & Telescope on a “Boston Henge” phenomenon in Back Bay, the Smithsonian's plans to get the Discovery shuttle to Texas and an asteroid that's maybe headed for the moon in 2032. Gabrielle Hamilton is the James Beard-winning chef behind the New York restaurant Prune, and author

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39:15

Best Of BPR 10/27: Bill de Blasio On Zohran Mamdani &...

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2025/10/28

Today: Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses the New York City mayor's race; he's endorsed Zohran Mamdani. We'll talk about his hope for the future of New York and Democrats across the country.And, Boston Medical Center’s Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett joins us with Dr. Lisa Fontes on the health impacts of domestic violence, and how to prevent it.

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02:40:37

BPR Full Show 10/28: The Zohran Impact

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2025/10/28

Former NY mayor, one-time presidential candidate Bill DeBlasio calls in to discuss the NYC mayor's race; he's endorsed MamdaniSports authority Trenni Casey discusses the NBA gambling indictmentsDr. Katherine Gergen Barnett and Dr. Lisa Fontes discuss domestic violence and prevention/awareness through the lens of public healthAnthony Amore, current director of security at the Gardner Museum, discusses the Louvre heist.The Wagner Foundation's Abigail Satinsky joins with Street Theory artist

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23:39

Best Of BPR 10/27: Biden Officials Who Resigned Over...

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2025/10/27

Today:Josh Paul and Tariq Habash both resigned from the Biden administration over the president's handling of Israel's war in Gaza following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in 2023. They have since co-founded “A New Policy” – a group that aims to reform U.S. policy – and join to discuss what a true "American first" policy in the Middle East would look like.

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02:32:43

BPR Full Show 10/27: More Tricks, Fewer Treats

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2025/10/27

Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans shares his latest book "Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book" on the power of dictionaries in shaping culture. Plus we get his take on polling that shows Latinos in America might be turning away from Trump.Vulture podcast and TV critic Nick Quah shares the best podcasts he's heard this year. Josh Paul and Tariq Habash are co-founders of “A New Policy,” which aims to reform U.S. policy toward the Middle East. They join to discuss what they

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27:16

Best Of BPR 10/24: Doris Kearns Goodwin On Lincoln's...

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2025/10/24

Today:Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin joins Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to reflect on lessons in leadership from her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, released 20 years ago this week.

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02:33:04

BPR Full Show 10/24: Butt Naked In A Doggy-Dog World

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2025/10/24

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin celebrates 20 years since Team of Rivals was published, the one book Barack Obama said he’d want on a desert island. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins for “Ask the Mayor.” We talk to her about Mass & Cass, whether she’ll insert herself into the Markey/Moulton Senate race, new pushback from Boston’s business community, and Trump’s suggestion this month about pulling the World Cup from Foxboro. Rasa Quartet performs for Live Music Friday. They’re

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02:40:21

BPR Full Show 10/23: AITA For Tearing Down White House?

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2025/10/23

BPR Full Show 10/23: AITA For Tearing Down White House?

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25:21

Best Of BPR 10/23: J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami On A...

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2025/10/23

Today: Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J-Street, discusses the cautious hope many are feeling in the days after a ceasefire took hold in Gaza, and how American Jews are responding to this political moment.

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02:09:16

BPR Full Show 10/22: Monument Or Mar-A-Lago?

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

2025/10/22

The Culture Show's Jared Bowen discusses the Louvre heist, and ballroom demolition at the White House and an Indigenous art at the ICA.NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey on the Shakespearean trajectory of Bill Belichicks career, Shohei Ohtani's run for GOAT of baseball, and a women's pro baseball league coming to Boston.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest Trump effort to send national guard troops to Portland, Oregon. Plus, Virginia Giuffre's memoir.Naturalist and

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27:59

Best Of BPR 10/22: Beyond Broken, American Healthcare...

Boston Public Radio Podcast ·

2025/10/22

Today:We hear from listeners about the sticking issue of the government shutdown: healthcare costs.

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