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Wednesday on BPR:
The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem
Boston Globe Love Letter’s columnist Meredith Goldstei
GBH's Jennifer Moore, WCAI's Gilda Geist and NEPM's Karen Brown on the Connecting the Commonwealth series Unraveling Immunity
Recent segments
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Juliette Kayyem: America Won't Start Feeling 'Normal' Until Late 2021
Rates of infections will increase until a vaccine or a change in leadership arrives, Kayyem said. -
Nia Grace Discusses Boston Black Restaurant Month
The initiative to encourage diners to visit Black-owned restaurants is being led by the Boston Black Hospitality Coalition. -
Sue O'Connell On Trump's Statement That Biden Is 'Against God'
O'Connell is NECN's political commentator and explainer-in-chief. -
Emily Rooney On Schools' Reopening Plans
Most schools are taking very thoughtful approaches to their reopening plans, Rooney says. -
Corby Kummer On Prisoner-organized Memorial Lunch For George Floyd
In their own way, inmates at the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan honored George Floyd. -
Callie Crossley: Trader Joe’s Not Rebranding Food Packaging Is 'Tone Deaf'
The “Under the Radar” host said the packaging is problematic because of power dynamics between a white-owned company and the nonwhite cultures they profit off of.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 04/04: Boston Lyric Opera's Carousel
The Boston Lyric Opera's 80th anniversary production of "Carousel" starts tonight, and brings the beloved show back to its beginnings at the historic Colonial Theater – in 1945.We speak with Boston Lyric Opera CEO Bradley Vernatter, director and visionary Anne Bogart, and Boston Foundation's Lee Pelton, making his theatrical debut. Plus, performances from Chelsea Basler, Brendan Shapiro, and Mary Kray. -
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Best Of BPR 4/03: ICE Agents Obstruct Justice To Take Custody Of A Man Mid-Trial & Federal Education Funds Withdrawn From Massachusetts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.