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Boston Public Radio hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude.

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Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call/text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join us live at our Boston Public Library studio every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. We stream every day on YouTube.com/GBHNews.

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Chef Lidia Bastianich shares four generations of family recipes

The Italian American chef talks about her new cookbook and celebrating 25 years on public television.

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'Antisocial' or 'fun'? Shoppers are split on the value of self-checkout kiosks.

"The machines are enormously expensive to install. And ... they're very glitchy, and you constantly have to rescan things."

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'Just a lot of weirdness': Paranormal expert recounts local legends

This Halloween, paranormal expert Jeff Belanger talks ghosts, hauntings and history.

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BU professor Joan Donovan explains the meteoric rise of misogyny on social media

She said creators like Andrew Tate have figured out how to "play the algorithms."

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Former Mass. public safety secretary explains the purpose of shelter in place orders

Three Maine towns were ordered to shelter in place after the Lewiston mass shootings.

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013.

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Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the co-host of Boston Public Radio.During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.

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