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BPR is on tape for our annual summer break. We'll be back live on Monday, Aug. 31 with:
Katie Theoharides of the Trustees of Reservations
Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner,
Susan Mathison of Common Man for Ukraine
Recent segments
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Jon Gruber: Rent Control Isn't The Way To More Affordable Housing
Boston just needs more units, not regulated ones. -
Jeff Bezos Commits 'Extraordinary Amount' To Combat Climate Change, Says Nancy Koehn
The Bezos Earth Fund will fund programs that fight to reverse climate change. -
Shirley Leung Talks Fraud Allegations Against Mass. Rep. David Nangle
The Boston Globe columnist reflected on the charges against Nangle, who stepped down Tuesday afternoon. -
Bob Thompson Discusses Launch Of The Black News Channel
The Black News Channel is available to Spectrum TV subscribers and is currently offered in 15 cities, including Boston. -
Trenni Kusnierek On Mookie Betts Leaving The Red Sox
In a move that stunned Red Sox fans, announced in early February that they intended to trade right fielder Markus “Mookie” Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers. -
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 12/19: On *That* Vanity Fair Piece & Live Music With Atikin Rose
Today:Juliette Kayyem and Andrea Cabral fill in for Jim and Margery.GBH political reporter Adam Reilly and Bay State Banner publisher Ron Mitchell join for our media analysis segment Press Play.And, Atikin Rose joins for Live Music Friday, accompanied on piano by Hawk of "God-Tier Entertainment" and joined in the studio by the CEO of PUTINWORK Rob Kelley-Morgan. -
BPR Full Show 12/19: Headline Escapism
GBH's Adam Reilly and The Bay State Banner's Ron Mitchell join for Press Play media analysis. This week, they talk about media reaction to Trump’s White House address, Brian McGrory returning to the Globe and a profile of the photographer who captured Trump staff for the Susie Wiles Vanity Fair profile. Boston Medical Center's Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett on the CDC reversing its position on Hepatitis B vaccines for infants, cutting funding for the American Academy of Pediatrics, RFK Jr.’s move to ban gender affirming care for young people, and the so-called "Christmas Coronary effect." Atikin Rose is an up-and-coming R&B singer songwriter with a new EP due out next year. She joins for Live Music Friday alongside talent manager Rob Kelley-Morgan.Tony Williams and Peter Gwiazda celebrate 25 years of the Urban Nutcracker. Tony is the show’s founder and creative visionary. Peter is a dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.NBC10 Boston media maven Sue O’Connell talks Epstein files, Brian Walshe, and a NYTimes profile of the woman caught in that Coldplay kiss-cam last summer. -
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Best Of BPR 12/17: International Human Rights Groups Are In 'Survival Mode'
Today:Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, discusses the organization's work. -
BPR Full Show 12/17: Merry Moldy Chestnuts
Volker Türk is the United Nations High Commissioner on human rights. We talk to him about the agency’s continued campaign against human rights violations worldwide, despite the U.S. pulling back support.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest in the Brown University shooting investigation, as detectives scramble for footage of a possible suspect. Plus her thoughts on that Susie Wiles Vanity Fair article.Step aside vinyl, CDs and DVDs are BACK — at least for Gen-Z. We talk to The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen about that, plus the mythology of Hamnet and its connection to the Bard’s most famous soliloquy.While State auditor Diana DiZoglio’s effort to audit the legislature still hasn’t happened, despite the voters’ will, she’s launching a new ballot question that would subject both the Legislature and the governor's office to the state public records law. She joins us.