Boston Public Radio Podcast

MIT's Jon Gruber discusses 20 years of Romneycare, of which he was a key architect. ACLU of Mass' Carol Rose discusses their lawsuit challenging Trump's efforts to get unredacted voter rolls in the state. Marc Morial of the National Urban League and Rahsaan Hall of Urban League of Eastern Mass join to discuss their organization's support of "clean slate" legislation — criminal justice reform that...

NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey gives a Marathon recap and updates us with the latest on the Pat's coach Mike Vrabel drama. Rich Davey, CEO of Massport, discusses how the war with Iran is impacting local travel costs around jet fuel and flight prices. CNN's John King joins us for the latest national political headlines, including Senate primaries and Kash Patel suing The Atlantic for an article a...

BPL president David Leonard, Jay Moschella, manager of rare books and manuscripts, and Garrett Dash Nelson, curator of the Leventhal Map Center, discuss the library's exhibit of rare printings of the Declaration of Independence. Tracy Bonham joins with a string quartet for Live Music Friday ahead of a show this weekend at the Burren. Abdallah Fayyad of the Boston Globe and NBC10's Sue O'Connell jo...

BPR Full Show 4/16: Pilots Just Wanna Have Fun

Cannabis Control Commission chair Shannon O'Brien discusses the state of the marijuana industry in Mass. Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Mass joins for a discussion about protest safety and data privacy in our surveillance era. Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses Viktor Orban's defeat in Hungary and lessons against illiberalism more broadly. Plus, thoughts on Hegseth's Holy Wa...

CNN's John King zooming in to discuss national political headlines. Michael Alosco, co-director of clinical research at the BU CTE Center, discusses his work researching biomarker development for CTE and long-term effectives of repetitive head impacts. Michael Prysner leads the Center on Conscience & War, he zooms in to discuss the massive uptick in military personnel reaching out to his organ...

Imran Riza is UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon. He zooms in from Beirut to discuss a growing humanitarian crisis there, ahead of negotiations between Lebanese and Israeli officials this week. Paul Reville, former MA education secretary, on the ' Mississippi Miracle ' and cuts to Boston Public Schools and other districts across the state. Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory discusses the preva...

Cuban journalist Daniel Montero Zooms in from Havana to talk about the humanitarian crisis there. At the library, we talk with Sylvia Rozwadowska-Shah, the owner of Colibri travel company which leads tours to Cuba, and Michelle Wojcik, Owner of Galeria Cubana, Provincetown, MA. And, it’s Live Music Friday – the Handel and Haydn society perform some of Handel’s Water Music, ahead of two shows this...

John Kerry, former secretary of state, negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, joins us in Studio 3 to discuss the current state of play in Iran/ the Middle East. Marathon bombing survivors Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky join to discuss the legacy of their therapy dog, Rescue, who died last September at age 13. Jared Bowen discusses the new documentary on Thoreau.

Tufts International Politics professor Daniel Drezner discusses the latest developments in Iran, after President Trump announced last night there would be a two-week cease fire. Naturalist Sy Montgomery explains how New Hampshire's new turtle tunnels are reducing amphibian and reptile road mortality rates. Lyndia Downie, executive director at Pine Street Inn, discusses how they've been expanding t...

BPR Full Show 4/7: Trump Threatens Iran

We check back in with two Boston-based Black business owners to about the reality of doing business with the city and the Commonwealth: Ricardo Pierre Louis, the Founder & CEO of Privé Parking, and Rose Staram, owner and founder of RoseMark Production. MIT economist Jon Gruber discusses the long-term economic impacts of a war in Iran. Mitchell Garabedian, renowned Catholic Sex scandal victims'...

Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the NYT, zooms in for Press Play. Poet Robert Pinsky performs for Live Music Friday. NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell discusses SCOTUS' ruling against a conversion therapy ban. And Boston Globe travel writer Christopher Muther zooms in to praise Peeps marshmallows.

BPR Full Show 4/2: AITA For Asking What's For Lunch?

Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung and business reporter Jon Chesto join to discuss their recent stories at the paper: income tax cuts, Mass Pike rest stops, and the likelihood Boston will truly be a women's sports town. National security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the communities fighting against ICE's expanding detention footprint, and the recent IDF action against a CNN crew in...

BPR Full Show 3/31: Gas Prices And Travel

Princeton University professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, discusses the Trump admin's newest investigations into Harvard. And we check in on the broader higher ed crackdown. Tufts food policy expert Corby Kummer explains how the war in Iran is impacting your grocery bill, and how Big Food continues to push back against the MAHA food policy agenda.  Reti...

Gov. Maura Healey joins for "Ask the Governor," answering our questions and yours.  Then, it's Live Music Friday with bassist Oscar Stagnaro and the band Triad. Finally, Rebecca Winter of 50501 previews the Boston No Kings rally this weekend.

BPR Full Show 3/26: DHS Shutdown & TSA Lines

Attorney General Andrea Campbell joins for "Ask the AG." Salt Lick Incubator artists Dani Offline and Claire Ernst perform ahead of a show in Concord. Dropkick Murphy's Ken Casey stops by to discuss the band's political legacy and playing at the No Kings protests this weekend.

Michael Curry discusses the growing life expectancy gap between Black residents and other Bostonians — the gap has doubled over the past decade. John King discusses the latest national political headlines. Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses the rise in sepsis cases in Mass., and the rise in IV drip bars in Boston Bobbi Gibb in person discusses her legacy as the first woman to run Boston Marath...

Amherst College's Ilan Stavans discusses the sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez. Comedian and The View host Joy Behar zooms in ahead of her "My First Ex-Husband" performance at the Huntington. Evan Horowitz of Tufts Center for State Policy Analysis walks us through his reports on rent control and income tax ballot questions. GBH's Jared Bowen joins us briefly to discuss "the unmasking o...

GBH News politics reporter Adam Reilly and Under The Radar 's Callie Crossley join for 'Press Play' media analysis.  For Live Music Friday, Puerto Rican singer, drummer, and composer David Rivera performs ahead of a show at Regattabar. Phil Eng, MBTA General Manager and interim secretary of transportation, joins for 'Ask the GM,' to answer our questions and yours.

BPR Full Show 3/19: Who Wants To Bring Back Dueling?

Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on war in the Middle East and the resignation of Joe Kent, the now-former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Chris Dempsey and Bill Straus join for a transit panel, focusing on plans for White Stadium, the Everett stadium for the Revs and World Cup plans at Gillette. Linda Bilmes, co-author of "The Three Trillion Dollar War" and Harva...