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
BPR Full Show: Living in a State of Dreaming
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by talking with listeners about this year’s ballot questions.
Art Caplan discussed a recent New York Times piece exposing a number of doctors who a…
02:41:34 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Best In Show
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We opened the show by taking phone calls on Thursday’s Gubernatorial Debate between Democrat Maura Healey and Republican Geoff Diehl to get our listeners’ opinion on t…
02:41:06 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Smiling at Strangers
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by talking with listeners about the now ex-British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who served 45 days in office before stepping down.
Rep. Ayanna Pressle…
02:41:26 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Leaf Peeping
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called in to talk about student loan forgiveness and what is coming ahead for Democrats in the midterms. Warren has been representing Massachuset…
02:04:19 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
Corby Kummer on Changes to Dunkin' Rewards: "It's my birthday, make me feel special"
Dunkin’ Donuts has devalued reward points and removed free birthday drinks as part of their new rewards program — and brand loyalists are not happy. Award-winning food writer Corby Kummer joined Bost…
00:19:06 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Veat (Vegan Meat)
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by talking with listeners about new polling that puts the economy and inflation at the top of mind for voters just three weeks out from the midterm e…
02:05:28 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: In the Name of Climate Change
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Maggie Haberman joined us to talk about her new book on former President Donald Trump titled, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.”…
02:07:19 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
BPR Bonus: George Saunders on "Liberation Day"
Writer George Saunders received a MacArthur fellowship in 2006, and his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” published in 2017, won the Booker Prize. His latest collection of short stories, “Liberati…
00:31:40 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Eggo-Nog
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by asking listeners for their thoughts on the death penalty, after a jury sentenced the Parkland school shooter to life in prison.
Shirley Leung ta…
02:06:03 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: The Latest from the Jan. 6 Committee
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Chuck Todd updated us on the latest political headlines, focusing on today’s Jan. 6 hearing. Todd is the moderator of “Meet The Press” on NBC, host of “Meet The Press …
01:18:45 |
Thu 13 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: COVID Liars
Jim and Margery opened the show by taking your calls about a study from the University of Utah which found that 42 percent of Americans lied or misrepresented their adherence to Covid-19 protocols.
…
02:08:25 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: #MeToo
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Five years ago, the New York Times and the New Yorker posted allegations against Harvey Weinstein regarding sexual assault. This week Weinstein is beginning another tr…
02:41:31 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Corby Kummer Plays Deviled Advocate
Speak of the deviled.
On Monday, food and policy writer Corby Kummer returned to Boston Public Radio to herald a resurgence in popularity for deviled eggs, per the staff writers over at Bon Appetit…
00:25:54 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Hot Girl Food
Today on Boston Public Radio:
We began the show by opening phone lines, asking listeners about the large number of people in their 20s and 30s moving back in with their parents amid rising costs of…
02:41:28 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: An Apple Cider Donut for You
Today on Boston Public Radio:
With the pardon given by the Biden Administration regarding federal marijuana charges, we opened our lines to ask: Are you happy by this move? Did it go far enough or…
02:40:58 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Cheater, Cheater
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Kristen Welker discusses the impact of Hurricane Ian on Floridians, and the Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker allegedly paying his girlfriend to get an abort…
02:41:16 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: The Brady Bunch
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Art Caplan weighs in on the health benefits of coffee versus tea, and discusses the ethics of using data from experiments that cause suffering. Caplan is the Drs. Will…
02:41:19 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: A Bicycle for Two
Today on Boston Public Radio:
Shirley Leung talks about her recent experience biking 8.5 miles through Boston to work, and the sentencing of former eBay executive Jim Baugh to nearly five years in …
02:41:08 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Banana Ketchup, Happy Meals for Adults, and more
Award-winning food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio on Monday to share the story of food scientist Maria Orosa, the Filipino inventor of banana ketchup.
Orosa was born in Taal, Philip…
00:22:12 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
BPR Full Show: Ask Doc KGB
Today on Boston Public Radio:
The midterms are now 36 days away. We opened the lines and asked our listeners: What does an increase in political violence in America say about us?
We opened our li…
02:41:44 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
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