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King called in to Boston Public Radio for his weekly national politics roundup.

Will sweeping police reforms make it through the legislature by the end of session?

Baseball is back, amid the pandemic, and Dr. Anthony Fauci will be throwing the first pitch on Opening Day.

How have agricultural workers, many of them immigrants, been impacted by the coronavirus?

Massachusetts is at a "significant disadvantage" when all its delegates to Congress are Democrats, O'Connor says.

Thompson gives a roundup of the latest television, media, and entertainment news.

Today:Fiona Hill has spent decades studying Putin and Russia – both as a scholar and as a US intelligence official – serving in George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump administrations. She discusses the shift in foreign policy agenda in the first few weeks of Trump's second administration, and threats to Democracy worldwide.

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.

BPR Full Show 4/4: Look At Those Tariffs!

BPR Full Show 4/3: The Horror Of The Whistle

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.