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Nothing says “the holidays” like bagpipe music! To that end, drummer Brian Morgan and piper Graeme Blackman of the Stuart Highlanders Pipe Band…

While mere mortals may spend the evening queuing around the block for tickets to see the new Star Wars film “The Force Awakens,” WGBH’s own Jared Bowen is…

After last winter, does the very thought of ice dams give you the chills? Richard Trethewey and Tom Silva of Ask This Old House are here to the rescue…

Mayor Marty Walsh supports the concept of a “just cause eviction” petition circulated by housing activists and is working with his staff on ways it could…

Late Saturday night, delegates from 195 countries around the world attending the COP21 conference agreed to a historic climate deal to reduce greenhouse…

Security on “soft” targets—a term used to describe targets with historically low security, like schools, office buildings, and other public spaces—has…

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, July 13th, 2018. We opened up the lines to you about the future of baseball — has America's pastime been relegated to the past by long games, expensive beer and an emphasis on home runs? Emily Rooney joined us for her famous list of fixations and fulminations. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh joined BPR for our monthly installment of "Ask The Mayor." Business columnist Shirley Leung gave us her take on equal pay at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Under The Radar's Callie Crossley explained how Doug Jones might vote for President Trump's Supreme Court pick. Actor Faran Tahir and the Director Steven Maler joined us for a Commonwealth Shakespeare Company news quiz.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, June 26th, 2018. Boston City Council President Andrea Campbell came in to talk about her proposal to let non-citizens vote in city elections. We took your calls about the effect that chain stores have on Boston neighborhoods. Andrea Cabral talked about what Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination means for the death penalty. WGBH's Science Correspondent Heather Goldstone explained how Scott Pruitt's short tenure at the EPA could have lasting consequences. We opened up the lines to you about the fact that the Thai cave rescue is about to get two adaptations on the silver screen. What movies got historical events right, and which ones didn't? We continued our coverage of the Massachusetts primaries with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Massie. Jonathan Alsop of the Boston Wine School explained what makes a Bordeaux and what makes a Bor-don't — in other words, why a global movement is demanding that a wine's birthplace is printed on the bottle.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, July 11th, 2018

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, July 10th, 2018

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, July 9th, 2018