Boston Public Radio Podcast

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez joined us to talk about the future of the Democratic party and their strategy for the 2018 midterms. We opened the lines to hear what you would like to see from the Democrats in the 2018 midterms. Ford Professor of Economics at MIT Jonathon Gruber joined us to talk about the R...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, April 10, 2018. A new Massachusetts law mandates that employers provide a designated space for nursing mothers. This means not having to turn a bathroom stall into a pumping station, or working in fear that someone could walk in on you while you turn your office into a temporary lactating room. We opened up the lines to ask you — what does ha...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, April 9th, 2018. Charlie Chieppo, principal of Chieppo Strategies, and Shannon O’Brien former, State Treasurer and Democratic nominee for Governor, gave us their take on the local and national headlines. The GroundTruth Project's Charlie Sennott joined us to discuss the recent chemical attack in Syria. With the 2018 midterms coming up, we aske...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, April 6th, 2018. A Video of a baby black bear in Montana struggling to wake up after a long hibernation has gone viral. This led us to ask you, what strategies do you have to help you out of bed in the morning? Are you the type the type of person to hit snooze or jump out of bed? Julia Vogl joined us to talk about her art installation for the...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, March 5th, 2018. Chuck Todd, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," joined us on the line with the latest news from Washington, D.C. We asked you about allegations of sexual misconduct against photographer Nicholas Nixon. If you were planning on seeing his exhibit at the ICA, will you miss it now? Can you separate the artist from the art? Major ref...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, April 4th, 2018. The Washington Post reported yesterday that during a meeting last month Robert Mueller told President Trump's lawyer that the president was currently not a criminal target in his investigation. We opened the lines to get your thoughts on this revelation. Novelist Meg Wolitzer joined us to talk about her latest novel, "The F...

The full Boston Public Radio broadcast from Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Researchers project that by 2030, we’ll have as many as 80,000 more vehicles clogging up our roadways. We opened up the lines to ask you: Would discouraging drivers from double parking be enough to solve our traffic problems? Is the real problem building beyond the city’s capacity? Would the threat of a big parking ticket discoura...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, April 4, 2018. Michael Curry, attorney, immediate past president of the Boston NAACP, and member of the National NAACP Board of Directors, and Jennifer Nassour, former chair of the Mass GOP, founder of Conservative Women for a Better Future, and counsel to Rubin and Rudman attorneys at law, joined us to discuss the latest political headlines.....

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, March 30, 2018. A California judge has ruled that coffee sellers in the state have to put a warning label on their coffee that will inform customers that the coffee roasting process produces cancer-causing chemicals. We opened the lines to hear if this will make you question your decision to have a morning coffee. Boston Globe columnist Meredi...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, March 29, 2018. This month, Utah reportedly became the first state to legalize "free-range parenting" with a law that prohibits parents from being charged with neglect if they let their children go to and from school alone, play outside unsupervised, or stay at home unattended. Are you on board? We opened up the lines and got your take. Poet...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, March 28th, 2018. We kicked off the show by opening the lines and asking you about spring cleaning: have you mastered the purge like a regular Marie Kondo, or are you a hoarder extaordinaire? Then, Mark Updegrove, who is the president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation in Austin and an author, journalist and historian, joined us to chat about hi...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, March 27th, 2018. We asked you about a string of recent controversies involving Massachusetts State Police, including an alleged overtime scam . Has the state's leadership done enough to keep the agency accountable? Sports reporter Trenni Kusnierick discussed a PSA created by the Sacramento Kings and the Boston Celtics about the killing of St...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, March 26, 2018. Jennifer Braceras, a conservative columnist for the Wall Street Journal and National Review, and Steve Kerrigan, former CEO of the National Democratic Convention, joined us to discuss the national and local political headlines. Saturday's March For Life was an impassioned call for sensible gun reform that was hard not to be swa...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, March 23, 2018. Chuck Todd of NBC's Meet The Press joined Boston Public Radio to give his predictions for what would happen in a fight between former Vice President Joe Biden and current POTUS Donald Trump. We took your calls about whether or not the salacious details coming out of the White House are too much. Are you overwhelmed by back-to-b...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, March 22, 2018. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has been making the news rounds this week after the revelation that Cambridge Analytica had used Facebook users' information to help the Trump campaign. We opened the lines to find out if you have forgiven Facebook or if you are leaving the social media platform. Poet Richard Blanco read the poems,...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, March 21, 2018. We asked you about the news that data firm Cambridge Analytica secretly harvested data from 50 million Facebook users. Does it make you think twice about what you "like" and "dislike" online? Are you considering deleting your social media profiles? Senator Harriette Chandler dropped by to share her vision and priorities for...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, March 20th, 2018. A new poll from Monmouth says that over 70 percent of Americans believe we are governed by a "deep state" of unelected officials. Are we becoming a nation of conspiracy theorists? We opened up the lines and asked you. The NFL has come under fire for delaying concussion settlement payments to former players. Trenni Krusnieric...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, We opened up the lines to you about the school walkouts to protest gun violence — should students be disciplined if they skip class to demonstrate? Brian O'Donovan and the members of Open The Door For Three joined us for a preview of this weekend's St. Patrick's Day Celtic Sojourn . Emily Rooney gave us her famous list of fixations and fulmina...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, March 15th, 2018. The Boston Red Sox are asking the city to change the name of "Yawkey Way" to "Jersey Street." Yawkey Way is named for former owner Tom Yawkey, who resisted racial integration of the team. We opened up the lines and asked you for your thoughts. Medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed a "right to try" bill in Congress that woul...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, March 14th, 2018. We began the show by asking you if you believe that politics should become more centrist. John Gruber joined us to talk about the latest economic and healthcare issues. National security expert Juliette Kayyem discussed the ousting of Rex Tillerson. Plus, NECN's Sue O'Connell, WGBH's Jared Bowen, and Nova's Rachel Connolly...

Sports writer Trenni Kusnierick joined Boston Public Radio to talk about the rumors that everyone in the sports world is talking about- will Tom Brady retire?

Food writer Corby Kummer joined us to discuss a new meal kit from Costco that is perfect for doomsday preppers.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, March 13th, 2018. We asked you about the snow! What's your blizzard strategy? If you're without power, how are you managing? With spring being so close, does this storm sting even more? Sports reporter Trenni Kusnierick discussed rumors that Tom Brady may retire. Do you go through the five stages of grief when your favorite restaurant closes?...

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, March 12th, 2018. We began the show by holding a political roundtable to cover the latest national and local headlines. We opened the lines to hear if you think Elizabeth Warren should take a DNA test to confirm that she actually does have Native American heritage. Charlie Sennott joined us to give us the latest on the negotiations with North...

The full broadcast from Boston Public Radio Friday, March 9th, 2018. Daylights savings is this Sunday, so we opened the lines for our biannual question. Do you like daylight savings or do you think we should get rid of it? Doug Rau, the founder of the Daily Table, joined us to talk about the status of the project and the second store they opened in Dudley Square. Robert Kuttner, the co-founder and...