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
- 2705
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Best Of BPR 12/09: Assad's Regime Falls & The New Conservative Identity Politics (Same As The Old Conservative Identity Politics)
Today: Andrea Cabral and Shirley Leung fill in for Jim and Margery.
Charlie Sennott of The GroundTruth Project and Frontline's Martin Smith update on the latest out of Syria.
And, outgoing Harvard …
00:37:57 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
BPR Full Show 12/09: Concepts Of A Plan...
Brian McGrory, head of Boston University's journalism department, discussed Trump's Meet the Press interview
Revs Irene Monroe and Emmett Price discussed the young men leaving their churches in favo…
02:34:35 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Best Of BPR 12/06: Roundhead Brewing & LMF Ian Coury
Luis Espinoza and Craig Panzer are the duo behind Massachusetts’ first Latino-owned brewery – Roundhead Brewing. They stop by the library to talk Latino beer, and the state of craft beer in the state…
00:38:22 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
BPR Full Show 12/06: Adieu
We open the lines to ask about the latest attempt by corporations to boost worker productivity by banning personal phones on the job.
Ian Coury is our guest for Live Music Friday. He’s a 22 year-ol…
02:29:25 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
Best Of BPR 12/05: "It Started with the Hats" + Trump's Big Tariff Lie
Today:
In the 1980s, the height of the crack epidemic, Paul Joyce was a Boston police officer. He’s now out with a new book about how the department struggled during that era, and the rise in gun an…
00:38:14 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
BPR Full Show 12/05: UnitedHealth CEO
Chuck Todd on the Hunter Biden pardon & more news from the incoming Trump administration…
Andrea Cabral on yesterday’s killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson.
Jon Gruber explains Trump’s stanc…
02:41:05 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Best Of BPR 12/04: Rep. Pressley Pushes Biden For Broader Pardons + Sen. Whitehouse Says "Grotesqueness" Of Trump's Cabinet Picks Is The Point
Today:
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley frames President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter a matter of legacy – and calls on him to pardon others in this country who have had their lives upend…
00:37:45 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
BPR Full show 12/04: Tick-Tock Death Clock
We open the show to get your thoughts on all of Trump's cabinet picks. Will there be a trickle-down effect of loosened moral and ethical codes?
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse zooms in to discuss Supreme…
02:33:31 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Best Of BPR 12/03: Nonprofits Under Threat & Rethinking BOS Nation FC
Today:
Boston Foundation president and CEO Lee Pelton discusses the organization's new ONE+ Boston mortgage program for low-income home buyers, and threats at the national level to the work nonprofi…
00:33:35 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
BPR Full Show 12/03: Gotta Buy Your TV Now
Trenni Casey discussed the NCAA fining Ohio State & Michigan for a melee that broke out at their game on Sunday
Lee Pelton of the Boston Foundation discussed ONE+ a new program focused on racial wea…
02:35:53 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Best Of BPR 12/02: Mass' Major Drought & Mass Deportation
Today:
Sue O’Connell fills in for Margery. We talk with two local mayors – of Salem and Attleboro – about the historic drought conditions in the state.
And, Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans discusse…
00:38:07 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
BPR Full Show 12/2: Cyber Monday
We're back from Thanksgiving. To start the show we ask listeners what they think about President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter.
GBH News Analyst Charlie Sennott discusses the fragil…
02:32:06 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
Best Of BPR 11/27: Andris Nelsons Does The Splits & Xi Jinping Gets The Frontline Treatment
Today:
Senior Foreign Correspondent for FRONTLINE, Martin Smith, is out with an sweeping, two-hour documentary on China’s rise to global superpower, Xi Jinping advancing their goals by means necessa…
00:41:15 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
BPR Full Show 11/27: Roasted Carrots For Thanksgiving
BPR Full Show 11/27: Roasted Carrots For Thanksgiving
02:31:10 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
Best Of BPR 11/26: AG Campbell On Blue Hub Litigation, Auditing The Legislature, And More
Today:
Attorney General Andrea Campbell joins Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library on Nov. 26, 2024.
00:38:30 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
BPR Full Show 11/26: Attorney General Says Teacher Strikes "Unacceptable"
BPR Full Show 11/26: Attorney General Says Teacher Strikes "Unacceptable"
02:40:58 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Best Of BPR 11/25: "Fox News For Vegans" & U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern On Ending Hunger
Today:
Satirist Andy Borowitz discusses the role of comedy in revealing truth.
Congressman Jim McGovern calls into the show on his annual 43-mile trek across his district in Western Massachusetts, …
00:31:11 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
BPR Full Show 11/25: All The Fixin's
Satirist Andy Borowitz on the role comedy had in re-electing Trump.
Charlie Sennott discussesdCOP29; the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, and a Ha…
02:41:00 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
Best Of BPR 11/22: Lyndia Downie On Ending Homelessness & Deval Patrick On Civic Engagement
Today, Andrea Cabral fills in for Jim:
Pine Street Inn executive director Lyndia Downie reflects on 40 years spent at the organization aimed at ending homelessness, and their big Thanksgiving plans.…
00:34:09 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
BPR Full Show 11/22: Teacher Strikes and Whoppergate
The North Shore teacher strikes continue. We take your calls and texts on reactions to the strike and hear from frustrated parents who are struggling to find childcare.
Former Massachusetts governo…
02:32:00 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
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