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 [email protected] or call or text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11AM-2PM Monday through Friday.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 124 minutes
- Episodes
- 2701
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
BPR Full Show 9/05: A Special Three-Host Show with Keith Lockhart
Boston Pop's Conductor Keith Lockhart co-hosts with Jim and Margery.
Brian Stelter joins for Friday morning media analysis. We talk about 250 media outlets signing an appeal to have better protecti…
02:32:50 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
BPR Full Show 9/4: Jim Loves Revenge (Margery Does Not)
BPR Full Show 9/4: Jim Loves Revenge (Margery Does Not)
02:40:50 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Best Of BPR 9/03: Education Secretary Tutwiler & The Queer AF 'Met Gala Of Massachusetts'
Today:
Massachusetts education secretary Patrick Tutwiler joins Jim and Margery at the BPL on the start of the new school year.
Plus, Love Your Labels – a Worcester-based nonprofit offering LGBT te…
00:38:34 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
BPR Full Show 9/03: Education Secretary Tutwiler, Epstein Files and Love Your Labels
Education secretary Patrick Tutwiler on the start of the new school year.
GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses Rachel Ruysch at the MFA and Viola's Room at the Shed in NYC.
Harvard natio…
02:32:13 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Best Of BPR 9/02: Mass Political Party Chairs Amy Carnevale And Steve Kerrigan
Today:
Mass GOP chair Amy Carnevale and Mass Democrats chair Steve Kerrigan join BPR at the BPL for a politics panel.
Plus, Lee Pelton of the Boston Foundation goes over threats to food assistance …
00:40:34 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
BPR Full Show 8/27: So High School
Senator Elizabeth Warren discusses her bipartisan housing plan and what she calls Trump's "authoritarian turn."
Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft discusses his campaign and takes calls from listen…
02:34:53 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/26: Mayor Wu Preparing For Potential National Guard Deployment
BPR Full Show 8/26: Mayor Wu Preparing For Potential National Guard Deployment
01:54:19 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/25: National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day
Margery hosts with 'local woman' Sue O'Connell.
CNN's John King joins with the latest national headlines.
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the bid to move the Connecticut Sun team to Bos…
02:32:48 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/22: Justice For Yacht Rock
Local woman, NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell, hosts with Harvard national security expert (and yacht rock fan) Juliette Kayyem.
GBH reporters Adam Reilly and Phillip Martin are our guests for Press Pl…
02:32:02 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/21: Straight Men Still Read Books For Fun?
Nancy Gertner weighs in on legal fights against Trump's D.C. takeover
Khalil Gibran Muhammad offers thoughts on Trump meddling with the Smithsonian
Bill McKibben says the sun is “having a moment,” …
02:40:56 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/20: Transit, Water and Ayanna Pressley
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley on the Democrats' strategy on the Epstein files, gerrymandering, and more.
National security expert Juliette Kayyem on discuss Trump's push to eliminate mail-in voting,…
02:31:58 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/19: Ozempic Jealously
BPR Full Show 8/19: Ozempic Jealously
02:40:11 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/18: The Alaska Meeting, Summer Movies and Religious AI Chatbots
NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Margery while Jim is still out on vacation.
Businesses are seeing workforce disruptions with ICE disruptions. We talk to Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans …
02:35:36 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/08: Socks And Crocs
For this week's media analysis segment “Press Play," BU Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies Joan Donovan discusses how mainstream media headlines fail to capture the real story, and ho…
02:33:09 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/7: Trump Isn't Like Prince Andrew?
Chuck Todd on latest political headlines
Andrea Cabral weighs in on Jim Acosta “interviewing” an AI avatar of a Parkland shooting survivor
Paul Reville on private school vouchers, high absenteeism …
02:40:50 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/06: Auditor Diana DiZoglio + Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen gives his arts and culture reviews around the region – from Christine Baranski in Newport and more.
On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, presidential hist…
02:33:49 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/5: The Sports Bra (Women's Sports Bar)
CNN's John King with the latest political headlines from Washington.
ACLU of Mass Carol Rose on an update on their first birthright citizenship case in federal appeals court
Lydia Coverdale-Pere…
02:40:46 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/04: Frolicking in Ogunquit
NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Jim.
NAACP's Michael Curry on how Trump is replacing "woke" with his own version of diversity, plus a mini-lesson on the history of white supremacy, in…
02:34:11 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
BPR Full Show 8/01: Rhinestone Pink Guitar
GBH's Callie Crossley and The Bay State Banner's Yawu Miller join for this week’s round of Press Play media analysis. They discuss media coverage of Epstein developments, an incident where two Boston…
02:31:49 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
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