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 10/22: Women's Sports Wins And Losses & Karen Read On Dateline
Today:
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the botched rollout of Boston's new National Womens Soccer League team, the Bos Nation FC, with their "too many balls" ad campaign.
And, media mave…
00:25:07 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/22: Are We Ready To Elect A Woman President?
We opened the lines to discuss how close the election is and if the country is ready to elect a woman
Trenni Casey, NBC Sports Boston anchor/reporter, discussed the NWSL Boston's botched new team n…
02:33:14 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/21: "10 Years Of Disruptions" For Allston/I-90 Project & Landscapers Who Lunch
Today:
W pull back the curtain on the legislature’s transportation committee with outgoing chair Rep. William Straus, and former assistant transportation secretary Chris Dempsey,
And, a robust deba…
00:35:39 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/21: A Modest Amount of Food
Brian McGrory, head of BU Journalism, discusses Trump's behavior at his latest string of rallies, and the lack of public information available on the death of the State Police recruit.
Then we open …
02:32:44 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/18: Audit The Legislature?
We had our Ballot Question 1 debate with Mary Connaughton from the Pioneer Institute arguing yes, and political science professor Jerold Duquette arguing no.
Adam Ezra for Live Music Friday performe…
02:35:57 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/18: Ballot Question 1 Debate - Auditing The Legislature
Today:
BPR hosts a debate on Ballot Question 1, which would grant the state auditor authority to audit the finances and workings of the legislature. Mary Connaughton, director of government transpar…
00:28:16 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/17: Ballot Question 3 - Rideshare Driver Unions
Today:
Roxana Rivera, co-chair of the Yes on 3 coalition and Assistant to the President at 32BJ SEIU, joins to discuss Ballot Question 3 - which would allow rideshare drivers for companies like Uber…
00:16:16 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/17: Live on Zoom from YouTube
Roxanna Rivera joins as a representative for Yes on 3 and United Justice. She makes the case for ballot question 3, which would allow ride share workers the right to unionize. Representatives from th…
01:52:31 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/16: Ballot Question 2 Debate - MCAS & Astronaut Suni Williams
Today:
We bring you our debate on ballot question 2 - whether to eliminate the MCAS exam as a graduation requirement. Representing YES on 2 is Deb McCarthy, vice president of the Massachusetts Teach…
00:41:54 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/16: Eliminate MCAS?
Ballot question #2 debate: Deb McCarthy, VP of the Mass Teachers Association represents YES on 2; Keri Rodrigues, founder of the National Parents Union.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams joined over Zo…
02:14:14 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/15: Ballot Question 4 Debate - Legalize Psychedelics
Today:
We host a debate on Ballot Question 4 - whether to legalize certain psychedelic drugs. Representing Yes on 4: Emily Oneschuck from Massachusetts for Mental Health Options. Representing No on …
00:27:18 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/15: Legalizing Psychedelics?
Ballot Question #4 debate with Emily Oneschuk, grassroots campaign director for Massachusetts for Mental Health Options, representing YES; and Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medi…
02:13:53 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/14: Ballot Question 5 Debate - Tipped Wages
Today on the podcast:
BPR hosts its first of five ballot question debates, starting with Question 5 - to eliminate the tipped minimum wage, and bring tipped workers up to the state minimum wage, cu…
00:27:53 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/14: Raise Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers?
Our first debate of the week on Question 5 - the minimum wage for tipped workers -- with Alex Galimberti, founder of the organization’s Mass. chapter of One Fair Wage and former restaurant worker rep…
02:31:32 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/11: Where Deplatformed YouTubers Go To Spew Hate + LMF Odyssey Opera
Today: GBH investigative reporter Phillip Martin, journalist Tim Biba and Megan Squire of the Southern Poverty Law Center tell us about Odysee, an alternative YouTube for the alt-right.
And, Grammy…
00:35:32 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/11: Bucket Lists
Gil Rose is our guest for Live Music Friday. He's leading a first-of-its-kind opera production that fuses two political satires from songwriting legends George & Ira Gershwin at NEC’s Jordan Hall.
G…
01:52:42 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/10: Barbara Lynch Closes Shop + AITA For Hiring A Maid
Today:
Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses Boston restaurateur Barbara Lynch announcing she's closing all her locations.
And, we open the lines for Am I The A-Hole. This week's prompt involv…
00:25:28 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/11: In The Eye Of The Hurricane
We opened the lines to discuss on why we can't turn the TV off to hurricane coverage.
Paul Reville on a new federal class action lawsuit against 40 colleges, accusing them of conspiring to overchar…
01:58:25 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Best Of BPR 10/09: Popcorn Finance & Harris' Media Blitz
Today:
In Somerville, bomb threats forced workers at the public library to cancel a children’s reading event featuring local drag queens. NBC10's Sue O’Connell discusses that story, Trump’s close re…
00:34:22 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
BPR Full Show 10/9: Dude, Don't Fact Check Me
We opened the lines to continue the discussion about Hurricane Milton.
GBH's Jared Bowen discussed his star turn in Nassim, tonight. And, Schlock & Awe at the Coolidge
NBC10's Sue O'Connell discus…
01:59:17 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
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