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
- 2704
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
BPR Full Show 5/23: You'll Be A Dentist
Abdullah Shahid Sial and Leo Gerdén are two international students from Harvard University. They react to the Trump administration's move yesterday to revoke the school's ability to enroll internatio…
02:34:01 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Best Of BPR 05/23: Trump's 'Dehumanizing' Ban On Foreign Students At Harvard & Club Passim's Campfire Festival
Today:
We start the show with two Harvard international students, with reaction to President Trump revoking their school’s ability to enroll international students just like them.
Then it’s Live Mu…
00:28:01 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/22: A Trump-Free Music-Filled Podcast, As A Treat
Today:
A music panel highlighting some great local events and artists, from the Newport Folk Festival to the jazz offerings around town. We talk with Brian McCreath of CRB, James Bennett II of GBH …
00:29:02 |
Thu 22 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/22: I Forgot The Butter!
BPR Full Show 5/22: I Forgot The Butter!
02:41:09 |
Thu 22 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/21: "Ask The AG" And Doris Kearns Goodwin
GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses "The Light in the Piazza" at the Huntington, penguins getting a retirement home at the New England Aquarium and the Kennedy Center's MAGA makeover.
Pr…
02:31:54 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/20: Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis & Boston Pops' Keith Lockhart Finally Gives Us A Scoop
Today:
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of Boston Medical Center discusses Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis.
And, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart calls in with July 4 news.
00:28:18 |
Tue 20 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/20: Fifty Years Of Shark Mania
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the Celtics out of the playoffs and breaking news about Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson.
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses Biden's prostate cancer di…
02:32:27 |
Tue 20 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/16: Five Second Rule
Carbon Leaf joins for Live Music Friday, head of a performance at the Spire in Plymouth.
Dan Primack is the business editor for Axios. He joins to talk about Trump’s business deals in the Middle Eas…
02:32:16 |
Fri 16 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/15: Full Of Baloney
Political analyst Chuck Todd with his weekly D.C. rundown.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley talks about the return of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk. And, her new bill to stop the garnishment of wages for people …
02:32:55 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/15: Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Describes Inhumane Conditions In For-Profit Louisiana Detention Center
Today:
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tells of her visit to constituent Rumeysa Ozturk in a Louisiana detention center, of the fight to get her released, and how Democrats are fighting back against t…
00:40:44 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/14: The Security Risk Of Qatar's Gifted Airplane & Tick Season Is Getting Worse
Today:
National security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the amount of work that will have to go into retro-fitting the Qatari airplane to suit Trump's presidential needs.
And, naturalist Sy Montg…
00:34:24 |
Wed 14 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/14: Kicking And Screaming
GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses the no-nudity dress code at Cannes and 'Kimberly Akimbo' at the Emerson Colonial Theatre.
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem explains wh…
01:57:56 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/13: Mayoral Candidate Josh Kraft & Keith Lockhart's 30 Years With The Boston Pops
Today:
Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft joins Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to discuss his mayoral challenge to Michelle Wu.
And, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart discusses th…
00:41:23 |
Wed 14 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/13: Josh Kraft and Conductor Keith Lockhart
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses a private equity in the Celtics' purchase bid and their devastating loss last night in game four against the Knicks.
Josh Kraft joins to discuss his campa…
01:58:38 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/12: UN Humanitarian Worker On The 'Nightmare' In Gaza & All Rev'd Up Pope Edition
Today:
Olga Cherevko of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, zooms into the show from Gaza City to discuss the humanitarian crisis there.
Reverends Irene Monroe a…
00:36:39 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Best Of BPR 5/09: 'We Are Not A Sanctuary State' Gov. Healey Says In Response To Worcester ICE Arrests
Today:
Gov. Maura Healey joined Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library on May 9, 2025.
00:39:10 |
Fri 09 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/09: Ask the Governor & Live Music From Latrell James
For Live Music Friday we hear from Brockton-based artist Latrell James, who won Album of the Year at 2024’s Boston Music Awards. He's performing at Boston Calling this month. We also speak to Boston …
02:05:13 |
Fri 09 May 2025
BPR Full Show 5/08: A New Pope
Podcaster Chuck Todd returns for his Thursday D.C. roundup.
Andrea Cabral on the latest law and order headlines: an appeals court ordering the return of Rumeysa Ozturk and to Vermont.
Environmenta…
02:06:32 |
Thu 08 May 2025
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