EXPLORE MORE
Coming up Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Media maven Sue O’Connell
Live Music Friday with Debo Ray
Tech journalist Joanna Stern on her new book “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything,”
Two parents of the Croft School in the South End – who are organizing to save their school community after news the school would close due to financial mismanagement
Recent segments
-
Michael Cutone: Police Can Foster 'Laboratory Of Innovation' To Help Communities
Can a policing strategy adapted from the military be part of a reformists' toolkit? -
Martin Smith On America's Deferred COVID-19 Response
83 percent of U.S. deaths would have been prevented if we had acted faster, Smith says, referring to a Columbia University study. -
The Revs Talk Intersectionality Following Monday's Supreme Court Ruling On LGBT Discrimination
Irene Monroe also spoke about her experience witnessing the Stonewall riots at a teenager in 1969. -
Bob Thompson: Black 'Bachelor,' 'Better Late Than Never'
Matt James was announced to be the upcoming 'Bachelor' last Friday, the first black 'Bachelor' in the show's 18 years on air. -
Bill Buford: America's 'New Respect For Food' Post-Pandemic
Buford discussing his latest book about French cooking, and talks about restaurants in America, post-pandemic. -
As Massachusetts Reopens, Will Boston Reclaim Its Worst Traffic In The Nation Status?
As the city and state moves forward with reopening, will Boston once again be the most congested region in the country?
Listen to previous shows
-
BPR Full Show 2/18: Cheating To Win
We remember documentarian Frederick Wiseman and actor Robert Duvall with The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen. And he reviews the new Wuthering Heights movie.Boston Globe technology writer Hiawatha Bray discusses why more people are turning to AI for health-related questions (and what it means for their health). Plus, why Healey's social media regulation plan faces an uphill battle.NBC Sports Boston’s Trenni Casey gives us a dispatch from the winter Olympics: on how a cheating scandal is upheaving the friendly sport of curling, and how, per usual, the Olympic Village has already run out of condoms. -
-
BPR Full Show 2/13: A Glass Case Of Emotion
NBC10 Sue O'Connell joins to discuss NYC officials re-raising the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, after the Trump administration ordered it removed. Will Nelson Jr. and Loren Benn perform for Live Music Friday, ahead of a Valentine's Day show at Coquette.Boston University researcher Joan Donovan joins for Press Play media analysis, discussing the misinformation stemming from the DOJ's release of the Epstein files, and the internet sleuths claiming they're able to un-redact them.Boston Globe Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein unveils the new Love Letters "Telebooth" at the Boston Public Library, where people can leave a message in a giant phone booth. Then, Meredith sticks around to help answer your love questions ahead of Valentine's Day. -
-
BPR Full Show 2/11: Hi, My Name Is
Ian Coss of the Big Dig and John Bullard, former New Bedford mayor and Sustainable Development director at NOAA, discuss season three of the podcast, "Catching the Codfather."Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on security at the Olympics and the Super Bowl, plus the crypto currency grift within the Trump family.Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery zooms in to discuss inter-species communication between dogs and the humans who give them buttons. Plus, the Indigenous-led declaration recognizing whales as legal persons.And, Joe Hanson, host of High School Quiz Show, checks in ahead of the new season.
