Boston Public Radio Podcast

BPR Full Show 8/26: Mayor Wu Preparing For Potential National Guard Deployment

Margery hosts with 'local woman' Sue O'Connell.  CNN's John King joins with the latest national headlines. NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the bid to move the Connecticut Sun team to Boston and its implications for the WNBA. Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses the tricky business of running community-owned groceries and a warning from the Dorchester Food Co-op that it may close....

Local woman, NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell, hosts with Harvard national security expert (and yacht rock fan) Juliette Kayyem.  GBH reporters Adam Reilly and Phillip Martin are our guests for Press Play media analysis. We talk with Phillip about his recent reporting on “pink slime" journalism. Plus, journalist deaths in Gaza, MSNBC’s rebrand and House Democrats’ probe into the Paramount / Skydance m...

Nancy Gertner weighs in on legal fights against Trump's D.C. takeover Khalil Gibran Muhammad offers thoughts on Trump meddling with the Smithsonian Bill McKibben says the sun is “having a moment,” 4.6 billion years on. He’ll join to discuss the future for solar energy, in light of his new book “Here Comes the Sun.” Voices from Ukraine is a new original musical that's touring New England, with a ca...

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley on the Democrats' strategy on the Epstein files, gerrymandering, and more. National security expert Juliette Kayyem on discuss Trump's push to eliminate mail-in voting, and the coastal threats from Hurricane Erin. Former transit secretary Jim Aloisi joins with former Transportation4Mass director Chris Dempsey for a transit panel. Max Rome of Charles River Watershed As...

BPR Full Show 8/19: Ozempic Jealously

NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Margery while Jim is still out on vacation. Businesses are seeing workforce disruptions with ICE disruptions. We talk to Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans about that, plus, about a new study on how language barriers affect your internet experience. It's still summer movie season. Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson is back with his unabashed reviews o...

For this week's media analysis segment “Press Play," BU Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies Joan Donovan discusses how mainstream media headlines fail to capture the real story, and how the White House is losing control over Epstein conspiracy theories. Then, it's Live Music Friday with Boston-based rapper and music coach RedShaydez, who is leading a new artist development program c...

Chuck Todd on latest political headlines Andrea Cabral weighs in on Jim Acosta “interviewing” an AI avatar of a Parkland shooting survivor Paul Reville on private school vouchers, high absenteeism in Mass. classrooms, the bill on banning cell phones in classrooms, and more Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel on the impacts of cuts to Medicaid, ICE getting a hold of Medicaid data, and some of his recent columns...

The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen gives his arts and culture reviews around the region – from Christine Baranski in Newport and more. On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin traces the steps that have weakened the legislation over time…right up to Texas’ planned gerrymandered maps. State Auditor Diana DiZoglio still hasn’t audited the legislature,...

CNN's John King with the latest political headlines from Washington.  ACLU of Mass Carol Rose on an update on their first birthright citizenship case in federal appeals court Lydia Coverdale-Perez and Whitney Edwards, two of the women behind Watch With Us Boston, the group that just purchased rights to open a Boston franchise of The Sports Bra, a sports bar dedicated to women’s sports.  NBC Sports...

NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Jim.  NAACP's Michael Curry on how Trump is replacing "woke" with his own version of diversity, plus a mini-lesson on the history of white supremacy, in today’s context.  Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung on whether Mayor Wu has paid enough attention to the city center and the Connecticut Sun WNBA team potentially moving to Boston. Boston M...

GBH's Callie Crossley and The Bay State Banner's Yawu Miller join for this week’s round of Press Play media analysis. They discuss media coverage of Epstein developments, an incident where two Boston Globe reporters were attacked at Mass & Cass., WEEI host Mike Felger’s outsized influence in Boston media and what Margaret Sullivan has dubbed  “the media capitulation index.” John Davidson once...

Dan Primack, business editor with Axios, talks about the state of the Fed, Trump tariffs and global trade. Andrea Cabral on DOJ chair Tulsi Gabbard winning over Trump with claims about Obama engaging in criminal conspiracy. James Jacoby joins to talk about his latest film for FRONTLINE, “Remaking the Middle East: Israel vs. Iran.”

Today: Naturalist Sy Montgomery zooms in to discuss her trip with producer Zoe Mathews to a puffin colony in Maine. And, Marty Martinez is the new CEO and President of United Way of Massachusetts Bay. He joins to discuss the nonprofit and social services.

GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses AI-fueled video games and the mayoral forum on the arts. Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the latest on the gunman in New York, tsunami warnings after last night's earthquake, and new FEMA grants set to go out to states to build migrant detention facilities. Marty Martinez, President and CEO of United Way of Massachusetts Ba...

Congresswoman Katherine Clark discusses what she’s called “six months of chaos under Republican leadership,” the Democratic strategy to get the Epstein files released, and the future of an unpopular party. NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey on the New York City gunman who apparently targeted NFL offices; the Fenway Aramark concession strike; and the MLB’s newest star affectionately known as "Big Dum...

Today: Retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner discusses a Department of Justice gone rogue, as top department officials suggest ignoring court orders. And, Michael Curry of the Mass League of Community Health Centers and NAACP discusses the impacts of conservative attacks on diversity.

Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner on a growing number of whistleblowers claiming top DOJ officials said the department could ignore numerous court orders. Is this the new normal under President Trump, and what does it say about our courts’ ability to check the powers of the executive?  Former Boston Globe editor, now head of BU Journalism, Brian McGrory on more news of Steward Health CEO Ralph d...

Today: We’ll start with Live Music Friday, from Irish folk band Solas performing for us ahead of the Lowell Folk Festival. And, Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins us with MIT economist Jon Gruber – making the case for new cities -- as in, we need to build a lot of housing, and quickly, if we’re going to get ourselves out of the housing crisis.  

Local woman, coyote wrangler and NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Jim. Julie Millican, Vice President of Media Matters, joins for this week’s edition of Press Play media analysis.  Irish folk band Solas performs ahead of this weekend's Lowell Folk Festival. We also talk with festival founders Seamus Eagan and Winnie Hogan, plus executive director Lee Viliesis. GBH's Callie Crossley di...

Today: Omer Bartov is the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He joins us to discuss his view that Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza constitute genocide. Then GBH CEO Susan Goldberg stops by studio 3 to update us on the impacts of losing federal funding. 

BPR Full Show 7/24: The Towel Wasting Family

Today: Market Basket executives Tom Gordon and Joe Schmidt join Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to discuss their firings, in the wake of speaking out against the company's latest.  And, husband-and-wife owners of La Saison bakery,  Soheil Fathi & Sarah Moridpour discuss their journey from Tehran to the Boston area.

GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses the Labubu craze and 200 years of American Art on display at the PEM. Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses Israel's expanded attacks in central Gaza, the growing daily deaths at food and humanitarian sites operated by the IDF, and France's media organization calling for the removal of its freelancers who remain in Gaza, citing s...