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Coming up
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Marathon Monday on BPR:
NAACP’s Michael Curry
Charlie Sennott from the Ground Truth Project
2018 Boston Marathon champion Des Linden
The Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III
PBS travel guru Rick Steves
Latest from Boston Public Radio
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April 14, 2023 03:47 PMHealey says Clarence Thomas ‘should go’
Gov. Maura Healey voices support for online lottery, marking her first 100 days in office with a Boston Public Radio interview. -
April 12, 2023 06:16 PMVermont’s new cartoonist laureate talks the wonder of comics
Tillie Walden will become the youngest cartoonist laureate for the Green Mountain state. -
April 10, 2023 08:18 PMOn Eng’s first day, transit advocates hope new MBTA general manager can turn the agency around
Hiring, more funding and dealing with diversions like slow zones need to be immediate priorities, says LivableStreets Alliance’s Stacy Thompson. -
April 7, 2023 04:57 PMPao Arts Center’s ‘Asian Glow’ showcases an ‘unapologetic diaspora’ of local Asian performers
“We want to be that connecting dot, honoring cultural heritage but also recognizing that culture is not static and continues to be created.” -
April 6, 2023 05:14 PMMoms Demand Action says requiring gun trainings is ‘common sense’ in Mass.
There’s still legislative work to do on guns in Massachusetts, says the co-leader of Massachusetts’ Moms Demand Action chapter. -
April 5, 2023 11:07 AMLee Pelton on Success Boston and the importance of higher education
President and CEO of The Boston Foundation shares updates on Success Boston, a college completion initiative.
Meet the Hosts
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Margery EaganMargery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 GBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to GBH in 2013.
Eagan was the Catholic spirituality columnist for the Boston Globe’s website, Cruxnow. In 2015 Margery Eagan won first place for excellence in religion commentary at the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia. She has written for her hometown paper, The Fall River Herald News, as well as the Standard Times of New Bedford, Boston Globe, Burlington Vermont Free Press, Boston Magazine, and the Boston Herald, where she wrote a column for 27 years. -
Jim BraudeJim Braude is the host of Greater Boston and co-host of Boston Public Radio.
During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.
GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library
Our BPL studio is much more than a broadcast studio. It's another home for us in our community. It's a place for us to hear the voices in our community and discover the stories that matter to them, all in a setting that inspires curiosity and engagement with knowledge.