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
BPR Full Show 4/24: Shut Up And Pack!
Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses the FDA moving to ban some food dyes and RFK Jr.'s MAHA agenda. He also discusses a free grocery store in Maryland and Megan Markle’s new jelly endeavor.
D…
02:34:17 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/23: Don't Say Please & Thank You
BPR Full Show 4/23: Don't Say Please & Thank You
02:40:43 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/23: A Joyful Revolution & Comedians In Shorts
Today:
Embrace Boston’s Imari Paris Jeffries and Jenee Osterheldt of the Globe’s “A Beautiful Resistance” series and Everyone 250 join ahead of a major rally happening this Saturday to protest raci…
00:39:35 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/22: Wesleyan President On Trump's Anti-Americanism & 'Divine Intervention'
Today:
Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan College, was one of the first university presidents to stand up to federal pressure from the Trump Administration. We discuss the growing chorus followin…
00:38:29 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/22: Did MAGA Make Meat Great Again?
Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, discusses his 'case against cowardice' in the face of Trump's attacks on higher education.
Brian McGrory, head of BU journalism, discusses the local…
02:41:02 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/17: Holding The Trump Administration In Contempt & Higher Ed's 'Demographic Cliff'
Today:
Former Massachusetts public safety secretary Andrea Cabral discusses a federal judge holding the Trump administration in contempt over its defiance – The administration refuses to return a ma…
00:32:46 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/17: Give Up The Dial
Local woman Sue O'Connell hosts with Margery while Jim slithers somewhere in Cambridge.
Political analyst and podcaster Chuck Todd is back for his Thursday D.C. news roundup.
Former Suffolk County…
02:33:07 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/16: 'Show Me Proof Of Life' For Abrego Garcia & Trump Says He Won't Defund Harvard-Affiliated Hospitals
Today:
National security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the normalization of political violence; and calls for the Trump administration to show proof of life for the man wrongly deported to an El…
00:36:22 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/16: ICE Agents & Smashed Windows
Michael Curry joins via zoom to discuss the federal funding freeze impacts on medical research and healthcare in Mass, and Healey's budget request for cuts to mental health.
Juliette Kayyem discus…
02:40:48 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/15: Black Business Owners Warn Of Recession & Ken Burns On The American Revolution
Today:
We check back in with local Black entrepreneurs Rose Staram and Ricardo Pierre Louis on today's environment for BIPOC-owned businesses -- both had secured major contracts two years ago when B…
00:41:01 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/15: Harvard Will Not Comply
Filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein join to discuss their American Revolution series, premiering later this year.
We check back in with Rose Staram (RoseMark Production) and Ricardo Pierre Lou…
02:41:58 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/14: Another Oval Office Stunt & Harvard Says They Will Not Comply
Today:
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner discusses the Trump administration’s defiance of a court order to return the wrongfully deported Abrego Garcia – still locked up in a mega prison in El Sal…
00:28:06 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/14: We Have New Music
Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses the hollowing out of middle-class restaurant and how local restaurants are grappling with tariffs.
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner discusses the legal …
02:33:16 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/11: We Love A Terrier
It's Live Music Friday with the Music Inclusion Ensemble, ahead of their year-end show at the Berklee Performance Center. We talk with founder Adrian Anantawan, singer/songwriter/disability rights ad…
02:30:27 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/10: AITA For Not Sharing My Location?
BPR Full Show 4/10: AITA For Not Sharing My Location?
02:39:36 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/09: Juliette Kayyem's Risk Assessment For Travel Abroad & Auditor DiZoglio Is Still Singing Her Tune
Today:
National security expert Juliette Kayyem offers a risk assessment for international college students – and anyone planning on traveling outside the country – as the Trump administration ramp…
00:31:13 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/09: Primitive Lemon Squeezers
GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses "It's A Motherf**king Pleasure" at ArtsEmerson and "Don't Eat The Mangos" at the Huntington.
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discuss…
02:31:37 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/08: Ask The Mayor with Michelle Wu
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins for Ask The Mayor.
Then NBC Sports Boston anchor/reporter Trenni Casey discusses an NCAA $2.8 billion settlement, the Red Sox Mookie Betts trade getting Trump's attent…
02:32:28 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/7: Budget Meals In This Economy
Anand Giridharadas of The Ink newsletter discusses national politics & this weekend's protests across the country
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner discusses Trump's third term talk and the latest…
02:40:09 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/07: Fiona Hill On Trump, Putin And Threats To Democracy Worldwide
Today:
Fiona Hill has spent decades studying Putin and Russia – both as a scholar and as a US intelligence official – serving in George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump administrations. She d…
00:30:03 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
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