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Coming up Thursday on BPR:
Political analyst Chuck Todd
Former Massachusetts public safety secretary Andrea Cabral
Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung
GBH’s Jared Bowen
Recent segments
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Emily Rooney On Bloomberg News' Coverage of Michael Bloomberg
The billionaire has told staff at Bloomberg News not to do investigations into any Democrat running for president. -
Ask The Superintendent: Dec. 6, 2019
Superintendent Brenda Cassellius joined Boston Public Radio to discuss the state of Boston Public Schools. -
Don Quixote Takes The BPR News Quiz
On Friday, actors Emilio Delgado and Gisela Chipe, who are starring in "Quixote Nuevo," joined Boston Public Radio for their weekly news quiz. -
Andrea Cabral Questions Bristol Sheriff’s Emails To Stephen Miller
The former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety called the emails from Sheriff Hodgson "cringeworthy and obsequious." -
Massachusetts Passed A New Education Funding Plan. Now What?
Paul Reville: The state legislature did its job. Now it's up to local school districts to do theirs. -
Change To SNAP Requirements Is 'One Of The Worst Outrages' Committed By Trump Administration, Says Corby Kummer
About 688,000 people will be affected by the new requirements to receive food stamps.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 5/20: Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis & Boston Pops' Keith Lockhart Finally Gives Us A Scoop
Today:Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of Boston Medical Center discusses Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis.And, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart calls in with July 4 news. -
BPR Full Show 5/20: Fifty Years Of Shark Mania
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the Celtics out of the playoffs and breaking news about Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson.Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis and new COVID-19 vaccine guidelines from the FDA.Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson joins for a summer movie preview and reflects on 50 years since Jaws premiered. CNN's John King joins remotely to discuss the opposition to Trump's big, beautiful tax bill. -
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BPR Full Show 5/16: Five Second Rule
Carbon Leaf joins for Live Music Friday, head of a performance at the Spire in Plymouth.Dan Primack is the business editor for Axios. He joins to talk about Trump’s business deals in the Middle East, Walmart’s tariff price hikes and HBO’s big re-re-re-brand to HBO Max.Director Gene Tempest & American Experience EP Cameo George talk about their latest project, “Mr. Polaroid,” a new documentary about the invention of the Polaroid camera (which started in Cambridge). Armani Thomas is a local artist who makes mini-paintings of Boston scenes and leaves the canvases up around the city. He chronicles his work on TikTok as @armoneythomas. Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner discusses yesterday's SCOTUS arguments on the 14th Amendment, along with other contested Trump executive orders and the sense that "rule of law" is ending in America. -
BPR Full Show 5/15: Full Of Baloney
Political analyst Chuck Todd with his weekly D.C. rundown.Rep. Ayanna Pressley talks about the return of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk. And, her new bill to stop the garnishment of wages for people with student loans in default. Dr. Sarah Fortune leads a tuberculosis research team at Harvard whose NIH funding was just cut by the Trump administration. She talks about the importance of scientific research and the future of her lab.MIT economist Jon Gruber explains how cuts to higher education will impact the biotech, medical and education economy in Massachusetts.