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Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
"Press Play" media analysis with Media Matters VP Julie Millican
Live Music Friday: Irish rockers Solas
GBH’s Callie Crossley
Congressman Jake Auchincloss and MIT’s Jon Gruber
Recent segments
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The Revs Talk Biden Catholicism, Debate Praise of Faith In Politics
During the "Boston Public Radio" interview, Rev. Monroe said she worries touting the President-elect's Catholicism would create a political double-standard, calling it "a slippery slope." -
Juliette Kayyem: Expect Widespread Immunity to COVID By Summer Of 2021
The national security analyst and CNN contributor said Americans have "every reason to be happy,” even if we have to hunker down for a while longer. -
Revs: 'We Should Be Able to Tell the Truth' This Thanksgiving Season
Irene Monroe and Emmett Price talked about the whitewashed legacy of British colonists. -
AG Healey: Trump's Efforts To Subvert Michigan Election May Violate Civil Rights Laws
'We're watching very closely.' -
Andrea Cabral: Legal Efforts to Overturn 2020 Results Are 'Incredibly Dangerous'
The frequent Boston Public Radio contributor said she's confident that GOP litigation won't hold up in court, but warned that the wider effort to call election results into question may well bring "catastrophic" harm to U.S. democratic integrity. -
Shirley Leung: Despite COVID Surge, Lockdown Prospects Are Slim Without More Federal Aid
The Boston Globe business columnist said economic approaches in some European countries have made it easier for people to stay at home than here in the U.S.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 4/03: ICE Agents Obstruct Justice To Take Custody Of A Man Mid-Trial & Federal Education Funds Withdrawn From Massachusetts
Today:We talk with lawyer, former Suffolk County Sheriff, Andrea Cabral about the administration’s attack on law firms … Plus, the unprecedented detention of a defendant mid-trial.And, former education secretary Paul Reville discusses the Trump administration clawing back $106 million in unspent COVID funds to Mass. schools. -
Best Of BPR 4/02: Trump's Tariff Policies Take Us 'Off The Cliff' & Spiders Weave Noise Cancellation Into Their Webs
Today:Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses Trump's tariff plan; and the CEO response to this presidential administration.And, naturalist and author Sy Montgomery brings us the latest headlines from the non-human world: Urban spiders weaving noise cancellation into their webs, and octopuses escaping sharks by hitching a ride on their heads. -
BPR Full Show 4/02: Let Me Be Your Avocado
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the launch of the first US professional women's 15s rugby league and a controversy surrounding influencers and hot yoga. Harvard security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the justice department seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione and the results of Tuesday's supreme court election in Wisconsin.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale School of Management discusses Trump's "liberation day" tariffs and the response (or lack-thereof) by CEOs to the Trump administration.Naturalist Sy Montgomery explains how urban spiders build soundproofing into their webs and why an octopus hitched a ride on a shark. -
Best Of BPR 4/01: Former Denmark Ambassador On Trump's Greenland Land Grab & The ACLU Against Tyranny
Today:Rufus Gifford, former ambassador to Denmark under Barack Obama -- who more recently worked on the Biden/Harris and Harris/Walz campaigns -- discusses Donald Trump's rhetoric about Greenland.Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, discusses their organization joining onto the legal team in defense of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk.