BPR Full Show 5/1/26: May Day With Guest Host Ken Casey

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Boston Public Radio Podcast

About The Episode

Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey co-hosts with Jim and Margery today. With guests:

Michael Patrick MacDonald, the author of "All Souls: Memoir of a Family From Southie."

Live Music Friday with local Americana, folk and rock singer-songwriter Jesse Ahern.

Michael Fanone is a former DC Metropolitan police officer who was injured in the J-6 attack on the Capitol. He joins us.

And on this May Day, Chrissy Lynch, head of the AFL-CIO of Massachusetts, talks about working class politics.

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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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