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BPR will be back live on Monday, July 6 with:
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Princeton University's Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Transportation panel: Chris Dempsey and Bill Strauss
Recent segments
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Oh, How The Tables Have Turned: Jim Braude & Margery Eagan Take Their Own Friday New Quiz
Oh, how the tables have turned. High School Quiz Show host Billy Costa put Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on the other side of the answer sheet this week… -
Outrage In Jordan Over Gruesome Murder Could Drastically Change Country's Fight Against ISIS
After ISIS released video of the brutal murder of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, the reaction of the pilot’s home country was swift. By dawn, two… -
Should Your Kids Know How Much You Make?
It doesn’t take a close reading of Emily Post’s Etiquette handbook to know that there are three topics that should never be discussed in polite company:… -
Nacho Average Super Bowl Spread: Ground Rules For The Game Day Food Derby
If there’s one thing that can bring together Americans of all ages and stripes, it’s the promise of consuming obscene amounts of cheese and hot sauce… -
Dateline Saudia Arabia: Was Bare-Headed Michelle Obama Staging A Protest?
While Twitter feeds around the Northeast this week were clogged with photos of snowdrifts and intrepid New Englanders skiing cavalierly down major… -
Will Greece's Election End In Crisis For the European Union?
Greece’s new prime minister, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, is the youngest leader that country has seen in over a century.But Tsipras brings with him a…
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Best Of BPR 4/03: ICE Agents Obstruct Justice To Take Custody Of A Man Mid-Trial & Federal Education Funds Withdrawn From Massachusetts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. -
BPR Full Show 4/02: Let Me Be Your Avocado
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the launch of the first US professional women's 15s rugby league and a controversy surrounding influencers and hot yoga. Harvard security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses the justice department seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione and the results of Tuesday's supreme court election in Wisconsin.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale School of Management discusses Trump's "liberation day" tariffs and the response (or lack-thereof) by CEOs to the Trump administration.Naturalist Sy Montgomery explains how urban spiders build soundproofing into their webs and why an octopus hitched a ride on a shark.
