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
- 2707
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Milk Bar Renames 'Crack Pie' After Outcry
Milk Bar, a dessert chain which opened a Harvard Square location earlier this year, will no longer call its signature sugary tart "crack pie." Corby Kummer — award-winning food writer, senior editor …
00:23:40 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/16/2019: Bill Weld Throws His Hat In The Ring
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld says he will challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. We opened up the lines and asked our listeners f…
02:45:18 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/15/2019: Marathon Monday
Today on Boston Public Radio:
It's Marathon Monday! Throughout the program we took calls from listeners, and also checked in with WGBH News reporters Edgar B. Herwick III at the halfway mark and P…
02:44:44 |
Mon 15 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/12/2019: Turning On, Tuning In, and Dropping Out With T.C. Boyle
Today on *Boston Public Radio: *
We opened up the lines and asked our listeners: Is it time for the millionaire’s tax to have its moment?
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is taking on the religiou…
02:44:50 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/10/2019: Feeling Stressed? Take A 'Nature Pill'
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Medical ethicist Arthur Caplan looked at the measles epidemics breaking out nationally. Caplan is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Chair and director o…
02:45:14 |
Wed 10 Apr 2019
Have Americans Soured On All-You-Can-Eat Buffets?
Have Americans soured on all-you-can eat buffets? In the last few years, a number of high-profile buffet chains have floundered — including Ryan's and Old Country Buffet, which have seen declining sa…
00:24:08 |
Tue 09 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/9/2019: Opening Day
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We’re taking about Trump’s renewed push for border security, which includes purging the Department of Homeland Security, bringing back family separation at the border…
02:45:43 |
Tue 09 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/8/2019: Politics, Poetry, and Game of Thrones
On today’s episode of Boston Public Radio:
Our political roundtable with Jennifer Nassour and Steve Kerrigan discussed the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen…
02:44:44 |
Mon 08 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/5/2019: Recreational Marijuana And KonMari Magic
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Bob Kraft's high-profile arrest has kicked off a statewide conversation about sex trafficking, including a debate over legalizing prostitution. We opened up the lines…
02:44:34 |
Fri 05 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/4/2019: Ukuleles, Tax Returns, and Gender X
On *Boston Public Radio *today:
Chuck Todd, host of “Meet the Press,” discussed the House’s move to request President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Then we opened up the lines and asked you about W…
02:44:12 |
Thu 04 Apr 2019
Can A Whopper Be A Whopper Without Beef?
This week, Burger King announced that it will offer a vegetarian version of its most famous product, the Whopper, made primarily from soybeans. Corby Kummer, a senior editor at The Atlantic, an award…
00:22:22 |
Thu 04 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/3/2019: Vexxed By Anti-Vaxxers
Listen to the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, April 3, 2019.
02:44:54 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/2/2019: Trump's Golfing and a Culinary Curmudgeon
Claims of “no collusion” on Russia is one thing — but is cheating in golf a whole other game? A new book entitled “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump” by Rick Reilly chronicles all the ways …
02:44:45 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 4/1/2019: Joe Biden, Cuba, and Antarctica's Melting Glaciers
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We went over the latest political headlines with Frank Phillips and Peter Gelzinis. Phillips is the State House Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe* *and Gelzinis is a …
02:44:54 |
Mon 01 Apr 2019
BPR Full Show 3/29/19: Ask the AG and 'Spamilton'
Attorney General Maura Healey took our questions and yours on “Ask the AG.”
Emily Rooney, host of “Beat the Press,” discussed Betsy DeVos’s attempt to cut Special Olympics funding and shared her fam…
02:10:23 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
BPR Full Show 3/28/2019: The 'Lady Grantham' Edition
We kicked off the show by asking our listeners about the recent barrage of high-profile legal cases involving the rich and famous. Does the justice system only work for the wealthy and well-connected…
02:44:22 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
BPR Full Show 3/27/2019: The Future of Obamacare and 'Donorators'
Homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem gave us her take on the Mueller report.
We opened up the lines and asked you about Bob Kraft’s apology.
Sports reporter Trenni Kusnierek called in from Seat…
02:06:25 |
Wed 27 Mar 2019
Portion Control? At Restaurants, It's More Like Out Of Control
Food writer Corby Kummer says you should assume portion sizes at restaurant are twice as big as what you should be eating in one meal.
00:21:51 |
Tue 26 Mar 2019
BPR Full Show 3/26/2019: Handshakes, Portion Control, And Yes, The Mueller Report
On today’s episode of Boston Public Radio:
Is rent control due for a comeback? A group of lawmakers in the Massachusetts House are putting a proposal on the table. We opened up the lines and got y…
02:08:49 |
Tue 26 Mar 2019
BPR Full Show 3/25/2019: It's Mueller Time
The Mueller report has been submitted. We go over what we know with our political roundtable, featuring former Massachusetts treasurer Shannon O’Brien and political analyst Charlie Chieppo.
Legal an…
02:11:27 |
Tue 26 Mar 2019
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