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Monday on BPR:
NBC Sports Boston’s Trenni Casey
Food authority Corby Kummer
Boston Medical Center’s Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett
Michael Curry of the Mass. League of Community Health Centers
BPR is on tape for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We'll be back live on Monday, Dec. 1.
Recent segments
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BPR's Ballot Debates: Question One, Gas Tax
On Monday, Boston Public Radio hosted a debate about the first question on the state's November ballot: changing the state's gas tax law so it's not… -
BPR: The Columbus Day Edition
Should Columbus Day be nixed and renamed Indigenous People's Day? We took your calls.Columnists Joan Venocchi of the Boston Globe and Peter Gelzinis of… -
Emily's List: The Bucket List Edition
Everybody's got a Bucket List of things they really, really want to do. What's on Greater Boston host Emily Rooney's? -
BPR: Deval Patrick Takes Your Questions!
300,00 people signed a petition to try to save Excalibur, the dog of the Spanish Ebola patient. Did you? Why are so many people so passionate about saving… -
BPR: Politics— New Hampshire to Capitol Hill and SCOTUS
Congressman Stephen Lynch (9th district) checks in with us from Iraq to talk about ISIS, boots on the ground, and Turkey's role. We talk to you to see… -
Emily's List: Never Will I Ever
Greater Boston host, Emily Rooney, joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan this week for another installment of her weekly list of obsessions and…
Listen to previous shows
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Patti Smith On Her New Book 'Devotion'
Patti Smith joined us in the studio to talk about her new book, Devotion. Plus, Attorney General Maura Healey joined us to take our questions and yours, Andrea Cabral, and we opened the lines to get your thoughts on the passing of Hugh Hefner. (Full Show 9/28/17) -
Cinema Classic Challenge: 'Easy Rider'
Film critic Garen Daily joined us to discuss this month's cinema classic challenge, Easy Rider. Plus, Juliette Kayyem on the crisis in Puerto Rico, Shirley Leung on Amazon's new headquarters, and Art Caplan on bringing vegetative patients out of their brain-dead state. (Full Show 9/27/17) -
Ken Burns On The Vietnam War
Ken Bruns and Lynn Novick joined us to talk about their new documentary series, The Vietnam War. Plus, John Gruber on the newest health care news, Nancy Koehn on the bids for Amazon's new home city, Corby Kummer on smart fridges, and CNN's John King. (Full Show 9/26/17) -
Fire That SOB
We went to the phones and asked you about your thoughts on Trump's comments calling for NFL owners to fire "the son of a bitch," who kneels for the national anthem. Plus, All Revved Up on Trump's comments, Charlie Chieppo and Shannon O'Brien on local and national politics, Bob Thompson on the best and worst of TV, Richard Blanco for out weekly poetry reading, and Charlie Sennott on the situation in North Korea. (Full Show 9/24/17)
