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Coming up Monday on BPR:
Fuquan McGee, The Harriet Tubman Project, and Jacqueline Fonseca of the New England Innocence Project
Tufts political scientist Daniel Drezner
Joanna Lydgate, States United Democracy Center
Recent segments
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Jared Bowen On How Netflix Enabled 'The Irishman'
Film is changing as Amazon and Netflix break into production. -
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The Revs Weigh In On 'The Evangelical Bubble'
Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III discussed the widespread support for President Trump within America's evangelical circles. -
BPR Politics Roundtable: New Round Of Impeachment Hearings To Begin This Week, Led By Rep. Jerry Nadler
Some Democrats are concerned that Nadler won't be as effective as Adam Schiff in leading the hearings. -
Economist Jonathan Gruber Breaks Down Democratic Candidates' Proposed Wealth Tax
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want to increase taxes on the rich. -
Bob Thompson: Limited Theater Releases Like 'The Irishman' Are Changing How We Watch Movies
The latest film from Martin Scorsese is distributed by Netflix.
Listen to previous shows
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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. -
Best Of BPR 5/15: Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Describes Inhumane Conditions In For-Profit Louisiana Detention Center
Today:Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tells of her visit to constituent Rumeysa Ozturk in a Louisiana detention center, of the fight to get her released, and how Democrats are fighting back against the Trump administration.And, Dr. Sarah Fortune, chair of the department of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses how a surprise philanthropic donation is keeping her scientific research alive – despite cuts from the Trump administration. -
Best Of BPR 5/14: The Security Risk Of Qatar's Gifted Airplane & Tick Season Is Getting Worse
Today:National security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the amount of work that will have to go into retro-fitting the Qatari airplane to suit Trump's presidential needs.And, naturalist Sy Montgomery discusses warming climate's impact on ticks and the humans who get bit by them.