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“Press Play” with GBH’s Adam Reilly and Callie Crossley
Live Music Friday with “Tunes on the Charles"
NBC10 Boston's Sue O’Connell
Boston Globe reporter and filmmaker David Abel
Recent segments
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Ayanna Pressley: Criminal Justice Reform Won't Happen By 'Tinkering At The Edges'
The congresswoman is out with a "radical" decarceration initiative. -
Callie Crossley On Lack Of Diversity In The 2020 Oscars
When Oscar nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards were announced, many took grievance with the fact that the nominees in major categories were predominantly white and male. -
Shirley Leung On MIT Chairman Robert Millard: 'He Should Also Quit'
The Globe business columnist continued to press for accountability in the wake of the Jeffery Epstein donation scandal. -
Andrea Cabral Hopes Harvard Grads 'Rush Into The Breach' With Trump Judges
Cabral said she understands why Harvard Law grads might not be interested in serving Trump-appointed judges. -
Ask The Treasurer: January 16, 2020
On Thursday, state treasurer Deb Goldberg joined Boston Public Radio for the first edition of Ask the Treasurer -
Boston Public Schools Didn't Intend For Student Information To End Up With ICE, Says Paul Reville
Reville believes the Mayor and school district had no inclination to pass along student incident reports to
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 4/01: Former Denmark Ambassador On Trump's Greenland Land Grab & The ACLU Against Tyranny
Today:Rufus Gifford, former ambassador to Denmark under Barack Obama -- who more recently worked on the Biden/Harris and Harris/Walz campaigns -- discusses Donald Trump's rhetoric about Greenland.Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, discusses their organization joining onto the legal team in defense of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk. -
BPR Full Show 4/01: Rumeysa Ozturk Case
ACLUM executive director Carol Rose discusses the local ACLU chapter joining on to legal filings in support of Rümeysa ÖztürkCorby Kummer on Trump's immigration impacts on farm workers and unions.Rufus Gifford, former Ambassador to Denmark parses through the Trump administration's rhetoric around Greenland.CNN's John King on national political headlines & Wisconsin election. -
BPR Full Show 3/27: Detained Tufts Student
Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung recaps Mayor Wu's appearance on The Daily Show, Canadians upset over U.S. annexation talk and the latest on the White Stadium development. Former secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral discusses Cambridge City Counselor Paul Toner's refusal to resign over the brothel scandal, and law firms refusing to represent Trump opponents. Andrew Natsios used to chair the Mass GOP and served as USAID administrator under George W. Bush. He reacts to the recent dismantling of the aid agency. Vulture podcast critic Nick Quah shares some of his picks for the best podcasts of the year so far, including GBH News' own "Scratch & Win." -
Best Of BPR 3/31: Inside The Notorious Mega Prison Trump Sent More Than 200 Migrants With Photojournalist Philip Holsinger
Photojournalist Philip Holsinger was on the tarmac documenting the arrival of Venezuelan migrants detained here in the U.S. and sent abroad to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison. He joins to discuss what he saw. -
BPR Full Show 3/31: May We Take Your Order?
Randi Weingarten, of the American Federation of Teachers, discusses Trump's efforts to dismantle the Education Department, and other education headlines.Philip Holsinger is a photojournalist who gained access to the El Salvador prison where Trump sent Venezuelan deportees from the US. He zooms in to discuss what he saw.Reporters Brendan McCarthy and Andrew Ryan of the Boston Globe join to discuss "Snitch City," the paper's new podcast and investigative series looking into local police's use of confidential informants.Michael Curry of the Mass League of Community Health Centers discusses the health equity lessons learned during COVID that we're unlearning under Trump. And, a growing gender gap at HBCUs.