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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 bpr@wgbh.org or call or text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11AM-2PM Monday through Friday.
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BPR Full Show 4/17: Attorney General Answers Audience Questions
Why does speaking up for the Palestinian people prompt such backlash? And more broadly, should colleges and schools cancel speakers just because some disagree with their perspectives? We opened the lines to discuss.
Jim Aloisi & Stacy Thompson return for our monthly transit panel. Their list of topics included slow-and-steady financial progress for the MBTA, and record funding from Beacon Hill Democrats.
Corby Kummer zooms in from Greece to talk about a NYTimes piece on the best restaurants in Boston
Robert Stoner from the MIT Energy Initiative joins to talk about the potential for clean hydrogen power in getting us out of the climate crisis.
Andrea Campbell joined for “Ask the AG”. She spoke about news on AI, her new initiative to address youth gambling, and more. -
Best Of BPR: How To Exit Boring Conversations & More
Today on the podcast, hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan hear from The GoundTruth Project’s Charlie Sennott on the latest on the Middle East, and if a paywall in journalism is needed to pay the bills. Then they talk with the audience, asking... have you ever been trapped in a conversation that seems to never end? How do you gracefully exit a conversation?
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BPR Full Show 4/16: Marathon Recap
It's day two of Trump's hush money trial and finding potential jurors proves difficult. We opened the lines to discuss.
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey with a marathon recap, the Celtic's honoring Mike Gorman and rumors that Rory McIlroy is in talks with Saudi-backed LIV.
GroundTruth's Charlie Sennott on Iran's weekend attack on Israel and how to rebuild the pipeline for local news.
NYU medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed why providers should barter with patients to settle medical bills, why Americans are sleeping less, and new information that connects the US bird flu outbreak to chicken waste fed to cattle.
CNN's John King with the latest political headlines.
Former education secretary Paul Reville discussed Mass. reading reform, why the cost of college keeps rising and a Gobe Magazine-Emerson College poll finding that conservatives think the value of college is declining.
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BPR Full Show 4/15: 128th Boston Marathon
We opened the show by discussing the 128th Boston Marathon
Retired Federal Judge Nancy Gertner on the start of Trump's criminal trial in NY
2018 marathon winner Des Linden, on her memoir "Choosing to Run"
Former police commissioner and prolific marathoner Bill Evans
Journalist Susan Zalkind on "The Waltham Murders"
Bobbi Gibb, on her historic 1966 marathon
Sy Montgomery & Matt Patterson, on their book "Of Time and Turtles" – because life's a marathon, not a sprint, and we could learn a thing or two from the way turtles experience time. -
Best Of BPR 4/15: Day One - Trump's New York Criminal Trial
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Retired Judge Nancy Gertner walks us through day one of the first ever criminal trial against a former president – Donald Trump facing criminal charges for “hush money” payments to the adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels. -
BPR Full Show 4/12: Using A Porta-Potty
MBTA general manager Phillip Eng joined for "Ask The GM"
Callie Crossley discussed the death of OJ Simpson and backlash against a Black Romeo & Juliet co-star.
For Live Music Friday, Winkler, an Allston-based indie pop group performed.
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discussed spiking rates of anxiety and depression among young people, and how worried should we really be about bird flu.
Corby Kummer discussed France going the way of the all-you-can-eat buffet, and a new EPA rule aimed at curbing PFAs in drinking water.
We ended the show this week by discussing a Porta-Potty report by one of our own producers - the great Hannah Loss.