BPR Full Show 6/8/26: FIFA World Cup and "Looksmaxxing"

Boston Public Radio Podcast

About The Episode

Ian Coss and Stephanie Pollack join us to discuss "the Highway Teardown tour"

Boston Globe travel writer Chris Muther discusses Boston's first nonstop flight to Belize, and how the ultrarich are doing the World Cup.

Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses the World Cup from a public health lens, and the rise in young people getting colon cancer.

Corby Kummer discusses the push to incorporate green crabs into our food system, so they don't destroy the ecosystem.

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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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