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 04/04: Boston Lyric Opera's Carousel
The Boston Lyric Opera's 80th anniversary production of "Carousel" starts tonight, and brings the beloved show back to its beginnings at the historic Colonial Theater – in 1945.
We speak with Boston…
00:21:11 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/4: Look At Those Tariffs!
BPR Full Show 4/4: Look At Those Tariffs!
02:37:45 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/3: The Horror Of The Whistle
BPR Full Show 4/3: The Horror Of The Whistle
02:31:47 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/03: ICE Agents Obstruct Justice To Take Custody Of A Man Mid-Trial & Federal Education Funds Withdrawn From Massachusetts
Today:
We talk with lawyer, former Suffolk County Sheriff, Andrea Cabral about the administration’s attack on law firms … Plus, the unprecedented detention of a defendant mid-trial.
And, former edu…
00:29:43 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/02: Trump's Tariff Policies Take Us 'Off The Cliff' & Spiders Weave Noise Cancellation Into Their Webs
Today:
Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses Trump's tariff plan; and the CEO response to this presidential administration.
And, naturalist and author Sy Montgomery brings us the latest headlines fro…
00:35:33 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/02: Let Me Be Your Avocado
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the launch of the first US professional women's 15s rugby league and a controversy surrounding influencers and hot yoga.
Harvard security expert Juliette …
02:30:15 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 4/01: Former Denmark Ambassador On Trump's Greenland Land Grab & The ACLU Against Tyranny
Today:
Rufus Gifford, former ambassador to Denmark under Barack Obama -- who more recently worked on the Biden/Harris and Harris/Walz campaigns -- discusses Donald Trump's rhetoric about Greenland.
…
00:39:42 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 4/01: Rumeysa Ozturk Case
ACLUM executive director Carol Rose discusses the local ACLU chapter joining on to legal filings in support of Rümeysa Öztürk
Corby Kummer on Trump's immigration impacts on farm workers and unions.
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02:39:13 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
BPR Full Show 3/27: Detained Tufts Student
Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung recaps Mayor Wu's appearance on The Daily Show, Canadians upset over U.S. annexation talk and the latest on the White Stadium development.
Former secre…
02:38:36 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Best Of BPR 3/31: Inside The Notorious Mega Prison Trump Sent More Than 200 Migrants With Photojournalist Philip Holsinger
Photojournalist Philip Holsinger was on the tarmac documenting the arrival of Venezuelan migrants detained here in the U.S. and sent abroad to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to …
00:23:08 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
BPR Full Show 3/31: May We Take Your Order?
Randi Weingarten, of the American Federation of Teachers, discusses Trump's efforts to dismantle the Education Department, and other education headlines.
Philip Holsinger is a photojournalist who ga…
02:31:20 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Best Of BPR 3/28: Rep. Pressley Calls Trump Dictator Over Tufts Student Detention & Handel And Haydn For All
Today:
U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley calls into the show to discuss the detention of Tufts University grad student Rumeysa Ozturk.
And, the Handel and Haydn Society join ahead of a show celeb…
00:34:18 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
BPR Full Show 03/28: An 'Assault' On Free Speech
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley reacts to ICE officials detaining Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk. Pressley represents the district that contains Somerville, which is where Ozturk was arrested.
Live Musi…
02:31:44 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Best Of BPR 3/27: There Will Be No 'Liberal Joe Rogan' & In Defense Of USAID, From The Republican Who Used To Run It
Today:
Vulture podcast critic Nick Quah delves into the man-o-sphere.
And, Andrew Natsios - former leader of the Massachusetts Republican party who went on to lead USAID under George W. Bush - come…
00:38:27 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
BPR Full Show 3/26: Immigrations Raids In Boston
Jared Bowen discusses whether art can survive the climate crisis
Juliette Kayyem on "signalgate" and growing concerns about espionage with the firing of thousands of federal workers.
Jim Aloisi and…
02:38:36 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Best Of BPR 3/26: ICE's Collective Punishment In Boston & Who Needs Media Literacy Anyway?
Today:
Immigration officials announced the arrests of nearly 400 people around Boston this week, as well as the detention of a Turkish Tufts student. We speak with GBH reporter Sarah Betancourt, imm…
00:27:41 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
BPR Full Show 3/25: World Figure Skating Championships
Trenni Casey discusses the livestock competitions going viral thanks to one girl's intense stare
Doug Zeghibe, executive director of the Skating Club of Boston joins with Olympic skater Ashley Wagne…
02:38:15 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Best Of BPR 3/25: World Figure Skating Championships & Astronaut Sunita Williams' Recovery After 288 Days In Space
Today:
The U.S. will play host to the ISU World Figure Skating Championships, coming to TD Garden this week. We talk about the art and physicality behind the sport – and the tragic loss of friends …
00:38:00 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Best Of BPR 3/24: Lamentations Of An Aztec Philosopher-King & Can Ozempic Treat All Manner Of Addiction?
Today:
Amherst College's Ilan Stavans discusses his new book "Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems" - a re-telling of an Aztec king's writings, translated directly from the indigenous lang…
00:37:26 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
BPR Full Show 3/24: Jim Threatens To Sell His Tesla
Boston University journalism department head Brian McGrory discusses the release of the 'John' names in the brothel case, the CIA-related disclosures from JFK files and how media coverage of COVID-19…
02:32:39 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
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