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Coming up Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein
Live Music Friday with TEATEA
Press Play media analysis with NBC10 Boston's Sue O’Connell and the Globe’s Emily Sweeney
James Beard Award-winning chef Jody Adams and Billy Shore, founder and executive chair of “Share Our Strength," ahead of their Chefs Cycle 2026 ride
Recent segments
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All Rev'd Up: White Nationalists Are 'Part Of Our Police Force'
The reverends discuss the danger that black people feel and face from the police force. -
Charlie Sennott: Turkish Attacks Against Kurds May Amount To Ethnic Cleansing
WGBH News Analyst Charlie Sennott said that President Trump’s pulling out from Syria is both a strategic and moral failure. -
Bob Thompson: What To Watch This Week In TV
"Modern Love" is TV expert Bob Thompson's best show this week. -
BPR News Quiz: The Winter Pack
WGBH News Reporter Edgar B. Herwick III and Pledgemaster Andy Hicks peddled some WGBH wares during pledge. -
Rep. Elijah Cummings Was 'The Embodiment Of Integrity,' Says Callie Crossley
Crossley spoke about Cummings' life and legacy. -
Gail Collins On Women Who Have Had The Audacity To Age
The New York Times columnist joined the show to discuss her latest book, a social history of American women and aging.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 04/04: Boston Lyric Opera's Carousel
The Boston Lyric Opera's 80th anniversary production of "Carousel" starts tonight, and brings the beloved show back to its beginnings at the historic Colonial Theater – in 1945.We speak with Boston Lyric Opera CEO Bradley Vernatter, director and visionary Anne Bogart, and Boston Foundation's Lee Pelton, making his theatrical debut. Plus, performances from Chelsea Basler, Brendan Shapiro, and Mary Kray. -
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Best Of BPR 4/03: ICE Agents Obstruct Justice To Take Custody Of A Man Mid-Trial & Federal Education Funds Withdrawn From Massachusetts
Today:We talk with lawyer, former Suffolk County Sheriff, Andrea Cabral about the administration’s attack on law firms … Plus, the unprecedented detention of a defendant mid-trial.And, former education secretary Paul Reville discusses the Trump administration clawing back $106 million in unspent COVID funds to Mass. schools. -
Best Of BPR 4/02: Trump's Tariff Policies Take Us 'Off The Cliff' & Spiders Weave Noise Cancellation Into Their Webs
Today:Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses Trump's tariff plan; and the CEO response to this presidential administration.And, naturalist and author Sy Montgomery brings us the latest headlines from the non-human world: Urban spiders weaving noise cancellation into their webs, and octopuses escaping sharks by hitching a ride on their heads.
