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Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Under the Radar's Callie Crossley
Live Music Friday with rapper and illustrator Nick Shea
Chocolate sommelier Victoria Kichuk
NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell
Recent segments
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                    Move Over Organic Food, The Next Restaurant Trend Is Restorative DiningFine dining restaurants are serving up climate-minded meals.
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                    Local Coach Dies In Helicopter Crash Alongside Kobe BryantFormer Brewster Whitecaps coach John Altobelli was among those killed in the crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
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                    BPR Politics Round Table: Will Republicans Call John Bolton To Testify In Impeachment Trial?On Sunday, revelations surfaced that in an unpublished manuscript former national security advisor John Bolton was ordered to withhold aid to Ukraine.
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                    Journalists Nick Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn Talk 'Tightrope'The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists called for more empathy towards the nation’s poorest.
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                    Trenni Kusnierek On Kobe Bryant: We Lost A 'Basketball Star' And A 'Cultural Icon'Bryant died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. He was 41 years old.
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                    All Rev'd Up: 'Hair Is A Political Statement'The reverends discuss the power of Ayanna Pressley going public about her alopecia.
Listen to previous shows
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                    BPR Full Show 1/27: January Ask the MayorBrian McGrory, head of journalism at BU, on the first week of the Trump Era.Mayor Michelle Wu took listener questions and talked about her new opponent.We re-aired our conversation with Globe writer Billy Baker about the importance of maintaining friendships as you age.Corby Kummer discussed the fear in the restaurant industry as Trump comes into power and threatens deportations; and bird flu in Mass.
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                    Best Of BPR 1/27: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu On Immigration Raids, Tax Rates, And Josh KraftToday: Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung fills in for Margery.She and Jim talk with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu for an abbreviated Ask The Mayor on January 27, 2025.
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                    BPR Full Show 1/24: Man, Just Use Your Fine China!Kat Wallace, singer/songwriter, performed in honor of her debut album “Grand Design” coming out.Callie Crossley weighed in on the GOP’s DEI witch hunt, and new fear over ICE agents at school bus stopsNancy Gertner on how SCOTUS is likely to rule on new Trump ordersIrene Li & Tracy Chang discussed some Lunar New Year goings-on next week for their award-winning restaurants Mei Mei Dumplings and Pagu.
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                    BPR Full Show 1/23: Executive OrdersChuck Todd on Sean Hannity's interview with Trump.Andrea Cabral on the role of the DOJ in carrying out Trump’s first-round of executive orders, and reaction from police groups to his pardoning of J6 rioters.Phillip Martin & Denise Jillson on a billionaire’s grip on real estate in Harvard Square, off of Phillip’s recent reporting. Denise is Executive Director at the Harvard Square Business Association.Jon Gruber talked about what’s (likely) to come for Medicaid, Inflation Reduction Act funding and more
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                    Best Of BPR 1/22: Immigration Raids In Schools And Churches & Bug PainToday:National security analyst Juliette Kayyem discusses the Trump administration saying they will target schools and churches for immigration raids.And, naturalist Sy Montgomery discusses the changing science around insects' ability to feel pain.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
