Best of BPR (9/7-9/11 2026): R.F. Kuang, Beth Noveck &

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Boston Public Radio Podcast

About The Episode

Welcome to our new rendition of the Best of BPR Podcast! In this new version, we will be publishing the week's top segments. In case you're missing us over the weekend... now you have something to listen to!

On today's Show:

We’ll speak with best-selling author R.F. Kuang, ahead of the launch of her latest “Taipei Story,” and her event at The Wilbur

We’ll speak with Northeastern professor Beth Simone Noveck on her new book “Reboot: AI And The Race To Save Democracy.”

We’ll hear from Polina Mirzad and her husband Suleiman on their new documentary theater project “What We Carry,”

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’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 WGBH in 2013.

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the 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.

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