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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BPR Full Show 3/13: The Hasslers And The Hassled
NCB10 Boston's Sue O'Connell discusses the rescission of a Biden-era rule on LGBTQ foster care placements and what the filibuster has to do with the S...
BPR Full Show 3/12: How To Load The Dishwasher
BPR Full Show 3/12: How To Load The Dishwasher
BPR Full Show 3/11: Popcorn And The Movies
Alan Khazei, founder of City Year, discusses the value of public service.
Alex Green talks about his book A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald a...
BPR Full Show 3/10: Ask The Mayor With Mayor Wu
BPR Full Show 3/10: Ask The Mayor With Mayor Wu
BPR Full Show 3/09: Jim's Daylight Crusade
Emerald Necklace Conservancy President Karen Mauney-Brodek and NAACP Boston's Ed Burley join to discuss their group's opposition to Mayor Wu's White S...
BPR Full Show 3/06: The Potato Heads
Anand Giridharadas of The.Ink Substack and MSNBC commentator joins for Press Play, our weekly media analysis segment, to discuss Pete Hegseth's Iran p...
BPR Full Show 3/05: An Update On The Humanitarian Crisis In Gaza
Political commentator Chuck Todd discusses the latest national political headlines and how Republicans are walking a tight-rope between Trump and the...
BPR Full Show 3/04: Superintendent Priya Tahiliani Says Brockton Was 'A Perfect Match'
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses misinformation and cyberwarfare shaping the conflict in Iran.
ACLU of Massachusetts'...
BPR Full Show 3/03: Take The Money And Run?
It’s been four days of attacks on Iran. Six Americans are dead. Global markets are down. We open the phones to get more of your reactions to the unfol...
BPR Full Show 3/02: At War With Iran
We start the show on Iran. Daniel Drezner is a Distinguished Professor of International Politics and Academic Dean at The Fletcher School of Law and D...
BPR Full Show 2/27: Salami Scented Tomatoes?
Author and journalist Rachel Hartigan discusses her book "Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life."
Jazz, neo‑...
BPR Full Show 2/26: The Laundry Chair
Chuck Todd with his State of the Union analysis
Andrea Cabral discusses the 'Dalilah Law' & Trump's proposal to target immigrant driver's licen...
BPR Full Show 2/25: State Of The Union
National security expert Juliette Kayyem discussing the State of the Union and cartel violence in Mexico.
Danielle Bell, head of the UN's human...
BPR Full Show 2/23: The Blizzard of '26
As a massive blizzard bears down on New England, Jim and Margery keep talking on the airwaves. They take calls from listeners on how they're faring du...
BPR Full Show 2/20: Beam Us Up
For Press Play media analysis we talk to NBC10 Boston's Sue O’Connell and GBH's Callie Crossley.
Live Music Friday with saxophonist Zishi Liu....
BPR Full Show 2/19: Speed No More
Juliette Kayyem on Democratic mayors across the country moving to limit ICE action in their cities
Andrea Cabral on the Colin Gray case, father...
BPR Full Show 2/18: Cheating To Win
We remember documentarian Frederick Wiseman and actor Robert Duvall with The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen. And he reviews the new Wuthering Heights movi...
BPR Full Show 2/13: A Glass Case Of Emotion
NBC10 Sue O'Connell joins to discuss NYC officials re-raising the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, after the Trump administration ordere...
BPR Full Show 2/11: Hi, My Name Is
Ian Coss of the Big Dig and John Bullard, former New Bedford mayor and Sustainable Development director at NOAA, discuss season three of the podcast,...
BPR Full Show 2/10: Ask The Mayor With Boston Mayor Wu
NBC Sports' Trenni Casey with updates on the games and the Super Bowl.
CNN's John King on the latest national political headlines.
Boston...
BPR Full Show 2/9: "The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate Is Love"
Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory discusses the American politicians booed at the Olympics and the athletes speaking out against the Trump administrat...
BPR Full Show 2/06: I'm Eating Too Much Honey
Ruth Marcus, formerly of the Washington Post, joins for Press Play to talk about the sweeping layoffs at her former employer.
John Barros, inter...
BPR Full Show 2/5: I Changed My Mind... Don't Yell At Me
BPR Full Show 2/5: I Changed My Mind... Don't Yell At Me
BPR Full Show 2/4: Kings And Pawns
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest tranche of Epstein files and Trump's comments about nationalizing elections.
A sp...
BPR Full Show 2/3: ICE In Maine
John King on the latest national political headlines.
Corby Kummer discusses how food delivery apps have reshaped dining
Reggie Ramos of T...
BPR Full Show 2/02: Eggs for Elegance
We start the show by getting listener's thoughts on the messy DOJ Epstein file release that leaked several victim identities. What do you do when the...
BPR Full Show 1/30: Live From The Boston Tundra
NBC10 Boston media maven Sue O'Connell joins for Press Play to discuss the arrest of Don Lemon, Bari Weiss' "scoops" based strategy and the FCC revisi...
BPR Full Show 1/29: AITA For Singing?
Chuck Todd joins for news of the day, asking a novel question: "Is This a Tipping Point" in America?
Andrea Cabral discusses the legislators mov...
BPR Full Show 1/28: Preventing A Frozen Fido
GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen on how even apolitical spaces — film festivals, online niche communities — have become political in the wake of...
BPR Full Show 1/27: When Enforcement Becomes Extremism?
BPR Full Show 1/27: When Enforcement Becomes Extremism?
BPR Full Show 1/26: Another Murder In Minneapolis
We open the lines to hear reactions to yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis – this time of a 37-year-old ICU nurse, Alex Pretti.
Boston Gl...
BPR Full Show 1/23: ICE And Ice Dams
For our weekly media analysis segment “Press Play," GBH’s Callie Crossley and The Bay State Banner’s Ron Mitchell talk about press secretary Karoline...
BPR Full Show 1/22: Applying To Join ICE
Political analyst and podcaster Chuck Todd
Food policy analyst Corby Kummer
Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler
Sl...
BPR Full Show 1/21: Bridging The Divide Through Service
The Culture Show's Jared Bowen on the death of fashion designer Valentino and Boston's Winteractive art installations.
Harvard national security...
BPR Full Show 1/20: The 25th Amendment To Remove Trump?
CNN chief national correspondent John King discussing the latest national political headlines.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu from 12-1 for Ask the Ma...
BPR Full Show Jan. 16, 2026: National (Fig) Newton Day
Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson joins for Press Play to discus her latest column that asks why the press is still struggling to cover Trump...
BPR Full Show Jan. 15, 2026: The Chat And Cut
Political analyst and podcaster Chuck Todd on the MAGA-fication of CBS news, and the first amendment implications of a federal investigation into a Wa...