Boston Public Radio Podcast
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Boston Public Radio Podcast
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...
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Best Of BPR 11/17: Rickey 'FuQuan' McGee Is Free And Advocating For Open File Discovery
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 r...
BPR Full Show 11/14: Trusting Media, Shelter Music And A Gator In The Charles
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' tr...
BPR Full Show 11/13: Government Shutdown Has Ended
BPR Full Show 11/13: Government Shutdown Has Ended
BPR Full Show 11/12: Potatoes!
The Culture Show's Jared Bowen discusses Norman Rockwell's family speaking out against the Trump administration for warping his legacy and Serj Tankia...
Best Of BPR 11/11: Axios' Dan Primack On All The President's Profits & Rep. Jake Auchincloss Talks Government Shutdown
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...
BPR Full Show 11/11: Service In The Age Of Trump
BPR Full Show 11/11: Service In The Age Of Trump
BPR Full Show 11/10: The Case Of Jim's Archives
We start the show by getting your reactions to the Senate Democrats who agreed to help Republicans re-open the government.
President Trump just...
BPR Full Show 11/7: Pass Go, Collect $200
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 p...
BPR Full Show 11/5: Ask The Governor!
Governor Maura Healey joins for Ask the Governor.
Then we open the phone lines to hear listener reactions to yesterday's elections results.
BPR Full Show 11/4: Ask The Attorney General
Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell takes from audience members.
Senator Ed Markey on the government shutdown, food access, and small businesses fe...
Best Of BPR 11/03: Everyone Has A Role in Resistance & The YMCA's Food Programs
Today:
ACLU of Massachusetts executive director Carol Rose discusses the challenges to the rule of law under the current presidential administra...
BPR Full Show 11/3: Come Together...At The Table
National security expert Juliette Kayyem on the investigation into an explosion at a Harvard Medical School building over the weekend, and President T...
BPR Full Show 10/31: Happy Halloween
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island discusses the government shutdown and his latest efforts to limit the influence of special interest groups in...
Best Of BPR 10/30: A Dispatch From Boston School Committee & Chuck Collins' 'Burned By Billionaires"
Today:
Brandon Cardet Hernandez, member of the Boston Public School Committee, discusses the literacy bill making its way through Beacon Hill, b...
BPR Full Show 10/29: I Talk, Then You Talk
Boston Globe travel writer Christopher Muther talks about the impact of the government shutdown on air travel, why international tourists are skipping...
Best Of BPR 10/27: Bill de Blasio On Zohran Mamdani & Domestic Violence Is A Threat To Public Health
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 f...
BPR Full Show 10/28: The Zohran Impact
Former NY mayor, one-time presidential candidate Bill DeBlasio calls in to discuss the NYC mayor's race; he's endorsed Mamdani
Sports authority...
Best Of BPR 10/27: Biden Officials Who Resigned Over His Handling Of War In Gaza Seek New Middle East Policy
Today:
Josh Paul and Tariq Habash both resigned from the Biden administration over the president's handling of Israel's war in Gaza following Ha...
BPR Full Show 10/27: More Tricks, Fewer Treats
Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans shares his latest book "Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book" on the power of dictionaries in shaping...
Best Of BPR 10/24: Doris Kearns Goodwin On Lincoln's 'Team Of Rivals' And Being President For All
Today:
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin joins Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to refle...
BPR Full Show 10/24: Butt Naked In A Doggy-Dog World
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 dese...
Best Of BPR 10/23: J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami On A Fragile Ceasefire In Gaza
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...
BPR Full Show 10/23: AITA For Tearing Down White House?
BPR Full Show 10/23: AITA For Tearing Down White House?
Best Of BPR 10/22: Beyond Broken, American Healthcare Is "Absolutely Shattered"
Today:
We hear from listeners about the sticking issue of the government shutdown: healthcare costs.
BPR Full Show 10/22: Monument Or Mar-A-Lago?
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 Spor...
BPR Full Show 10/21: Lovin' Your Pets
CNN's John King on national politics
Frontline's Michael Kirk discusses his new RFK Jr documentary airing tonight
Chris Kimball of Milk St...
BPR Full Show 10/20: Lazing Around For The Soul
Congressman Seth Moulton discusses his bid to unseat Senator Ed Markey and the Democrats' response to the Trump administration.
NPR critic-at-la...
Best Of BPR 10/20: Rep. Moulton Wants To Unseat Sen. Markey & Veteran Journalist Marty Baron Predicts Press Prosecutions
Today:
Congressman Seth Moulton discusses his bid to unseat Senator Ed Markey; and the Democrat response to the Trump administration more genera...
BPR Full Show 10/17: Ask Phil Eng
Former Washington Post and Boston Globe editor Marty Baron joins for Press Play. He talks about news outlets refusing to sign the new Pentagon press r...
Best Of BPR 10/16: Comedian Alex Edelman & Elie Honig's "When You Come At The King"
Today:
Brookline-born comedian Alex Edelman joins ahead of a show in Boston this Saturday.
And, former assistant US Attorney, now CNN lega...
BPR Full Show 10/16: How Much Help Is Too Much?
BPR Full Show 10/16: How Much Help Is Too Much?
Best Of BPR 10/15: Examining The Religious Exemption For Vaccines
Today:
Massachusetts is witnessing its highest spike ever in religious exemptions for vaccines. We’ll talk with GBH’s Connecting the Commonwealt...
BPR Full Show 10/15: Hope Is Never Lost!
The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen remembers Diane Keaton and previews a Florida Highwaymen painting exhibit at the Addison Gallery of American Art.
...
Best Of BPR 10/14: A Fragile Ceasefire In Gaza. Then What?
Today:
CNN chief national correspondent John King discusses the government shutdown and the ceasefire in Gaza. And we open the lines to get list...
BPR Full Show 10/14:
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the fall of Bill Belichick.
Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses the closure of the Urban Grape...
Best Of BPR 10/10: Live Music With Boston Baroque
Today: Boston Baroque joins for Live Music Friday.
Their season opens this weekend with two shows at NEC’s Jordan Hall tomorrow and Sunday. Led...
BPR Full Show 10/10: IJBOL
GBH's Adam Reilly and The Bay State Banner's Ron Mitchell join for Press Play media analysis. They talk about Pete Hegseth’s effort to muzzle press Pe...