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Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call/text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join us live at our Boston Public Library studio every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. We stream every day on YouTube.com/GBHNews.

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Tuesday on BPR, live from the BPL:

CNN's John King
Boston Medical Center palliative care expert Dr. Vicki Jackson and family medicine physician Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett
Boston climate officer Brian Swett, UMass Boston Katherine Dafforn, and Stone Living Lab's Joe Christo
Boston Landmarks Orchestra music director Christopher Wilkins

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Economist Jon Gruber Highlights 'Nightmare' Situation For Nation’s Nursing Homes

The MIT economist proposed creating a “care corps” program to bring more workers to the nation’s sorely under-staffed nursing homes.

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When COVID-19 was ramping up in America, the United States sent millions of masks to China.

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Charlie Sennott On The 'Heroic Streak' Of Women In The Time Of Coronavirus

The GroundTruth CEO commended the work of female leaders and healthcare workers abroad and at home.

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Bob Thompson Reviews 'One World: Together At Home' Simulcast

The simulcast provided some of the best entertainment in the age of coronavirus, Thompson said.

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Director Miles O'Brien Talks New Frontline Documentary 'Coronavirus Pandemic'

The new documentary looks at the different political response rates to the coronavirus pandemic.

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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.

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Jim Braude

Jim Braude

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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