Boston Public Radio Podcast

Today on Boston Public Radio : Sen. Elizabeth Warren called in to talk about student loan forgiveness and what is coming ahead for Democrats in the midterms. Warren has been representing Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate since 2013. We opened our lines to ask listeners: What is motivating you to cast your ballot on Nov. 8? Juliette Kayeem discussed the purchase of conservative social media app Parl...

Dunkin’ Donuts has devalued reward points and removed free birthday drinks as part of their new rewards program — and brand loyalists are not happy. Award-winning food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio to share his thoughts on the backlash on Tuesday. “The whole idea is, this worked for them, and it created loyalty,” Kummer told hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan. “It’s dumb to take s...

Today on Boston Public Radio : We began the show by talking with listeners about new polling that puts the economy and inflation at the top of mind for voters just three weeks out from the midterm elections. Trenni Casey talked about Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s marriage to Dana Blumberg. Casey is a reporter and anchor for NBC Sports Boston, and a weekly Boston Public Radio contributor. Jim Alois...

Today on Boston Public Radio : Maggie Haberman joined us to talk about her new book on former President Donald Trump titled, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.” Haberman is a senior political reporter at The New York Times and CNN analyst. Then, we opened our lines to ask: Are American politics irreparably warped? What does it say about us that we can’t stop t...

Writer George Saunders received a MacArthur fellowship in 2006, and his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” published in 2017, won the Booker Prize. His latest collection of short stories, “Liberation Day,” is scheduled for release on October 18. Ahead of Saunders’ upcoming appearance at Harvard Bookstore (October 25) GBH’s Arts and Culture reporter James Bennett II interviewed Saunders about the...

Today on  Boston Public Radio : We began the show by asking listeners for their thoughts on the death penalty, after a jury sentenced the Parkland school shooter to life in prison. Shirley Leung talked about her latest piece on Massachusetts Question 1 aka "the millionaire's tax," the return of the looming eviction wave, and the Boston Pops clarinet player who went on to make $100 milllion for Bos...

Today on Boston Public Radio : Chuck Todd updated us on the latest political headlines, focusing on today’s Jan. 6 hearing. Todd is the moderator of “Meet The Press” on NBC, host of “Meet The Press Daily” on MSNBC and the political director for NBC News. Next, we opened the phone lines, talking with listeners about the January 6th House Select Committee hearings. Andrea Cabral discussed a Connecti...

Jim and Margery opened the show by taking your calls about a study from the University of Utah which found that 42 percent of Americans lied or misrepresented their adherence to Covid-19 protocols. Medical Ethicist Art Caplan discussed a new experiment out of Japan where researchers implanted transmitters into cockroaches, allowing them to be controlled remotely. Researchers say the technology can...

Today on Boston Public Radio: Five years ago, the New York Times and the New Yorker posted allegations against Harvey Weinstein regarding sexual assault. This week Weinstein is beginning another trial now in Los Angeles. With this in mind we wanted to open our lines to ask: in your day to day life, have your lives changed five years on after #MeToo? Is workplace harassment less tolerable or has it...

Speak of the deviled. On Monday, food and policy writer Corby Kummer returned to Boston Public Radio to herald a resurgence in popularity for deviled eggs, per the staff writers over at Bon Appetit Magazine. It’s not your standard deviled eggs that are getting all this attention, though. “Fancy” eggs, with ingredients like Kewpie mayonnaise, miso, and caviar are apparently the hors d’oeuvre célèbr...

Today on Boston Public Radio : We began the show by opening phone lines, asking listeners about the large number of people in their 20s and 30s moving back in with their parents amid rising costs of living. Michelle Singletary shared her advice off of her latest personal finance columns, focusing on the looming deadline for public service loan forgiveness. Singletary is a personal finance columnis...

Today on Boston Public Radio: With the pardon given by the Biden Administration regarding federal marijuana charges, we opened our lines to ask: Are you happy by this move? Did it go far enough or did it go too far? Tech author Andy Ihnatko joined us on the show and discussed the most recent technological developments, from the “Made by Google” keynote event to an AI James Earl Jones’ voice as Dar...

Today on Boston Public Radio : Kristen Welker discusses the impact of Hurricane Ian on Floridians, and the Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker allegedly paying his girlfriend to get an abortion despite his pro-life stance. Welker is the Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and Co-Anchor of Weekend Today. She also co-hosts Meet the Press Now alongside Chuck Todd on NBC Now. We then...

Today on Boston Public Radio : Art Caplan weighs in on the health benefits of coffee versus tea, and discusses the ethics of using data from experiments that cause suffering. Caplan is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine in New York City. We then continue our conversation on coffee versus tea with li...

Today on Boston Public Radio : Shirley Leung talks about her recent experience biking 8.5 miles through Boston to work, and the sentencing of former eBay executive Jim Baugh to nearly five years in prison for running a scheme to harass a Natick couple. Leung is a business columnist for the Boston Globe. We then ask listeners about their experiences biking through the city. Lee Pelton explains the...

Award-winning food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio on Monday to share the story of food scientist Maria Orosa, the Filipino inventor of banana ketchup. Orosa was born in Taal, Philippines, in 1893, and became a U.S. government-sponsored scholar at 23, traveling to the U.S. to earn her bachelor’s and master’s in chemistry and pharmaceutical science at the University of Washington at...

Today on Boston Public Radio: The midterms are now 36 days away. We opened the lines and asked our listeners: What does an increase in political violence in America say about us? We opened our lines again for another installment of Ask the Doctor with Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of Boston Medical Center. She joined us on the show to answer listeners' questions from COVID to the upcoming flu seaso...

Today on Boston Public Radio: Hurricane Ian has left a trail of devastation. We opened the lines to listeners to ask: Has climate change won? Is it too late for some spots on the coast line, like Florida and Cape Cod? Lauren Friel and Andrew Brady from Cambridge restaurant Dear Annie discussed their recent success including reviews from the New York Times and Bon Appetit. Callie Crosley joined us...

Today on Boston Public Radio: Chuck Todd talked about the political impacts of climate change-induced severe weather, Ron DeSantis’ upcoming governor race, the latest in the Brett Favre welfare scandal. Todd is the moderator of “Meet The Press” on NBC, host of “Meet The Press Daily” on MSNBC and the political director for NBC News. Then, we asked listeners if they’ve become more judgmental post-CO...

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened the show by hearing from listeners about Hurricane Ian baring down on Florida's gulf coast, and how climate change is making storms more extreme. Medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed medical transparency for people seeking political office, Biogen's results from a clinical trial of a drug they're developing that aims to slow the progression of Alzheimer's d...

Today on  Boston Public Radio: We started the show by hearing our listener's reactions to the news that NASA had successfully launched a satellite into an asteroid to test its ability to redirect the paths of objects in space. Trenni Casey  discussed how Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka’s year-long suspension for having an inappropriate relationship with a female staff member impacted the official l...

The last time a Presidential administration held a summit on hunger, Richard Nixon was president – giving way to the federal food stamp program we know today. On Wednesday, President Biden will hold his own hunger summit in DC, aiming to bring food and nutrition into the practice of medicine and healthcare. “It took years of work to get the White House to consider having its own conference, which...

Today on Boston Public Radio: We started the show by hearing from listeners about what their ideal work week would look like, as more and more people seek alternatives to the traditional 9 to 5. Michael Curry discussed the latest COVID-19 numbers in Massachusetts, the Mass Black Expo aiming to foster community for Black entrepreneurs, and the latest on diversity in state contracts. Michael Curry i...

Today on Boston Public Radio: We began the show by asking listeners about the year-long suspension of Celtics coach Ime Udoka. Juliette Kayyem talked about the latest from the Alex Jones trial, Former President Donald Trump’s recent spring of bad headlines, including his seeming support for QAnon and the fraud lawsuit against him and some of his children. Kayyem was the assistant secretary for Hom...

Today on Boston Public Radio: We began the show asking listeners whether the recent headlines about Former President Trump will affect the public’s perception of him. Susan Zalkind gave some insight into her years of investigating a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Mass., which despite its brutality and connections to the Boston Marathon bombing, remains unsolved; and its recent adaptation into a...