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Host Mitra Kaboli and executive producer Ben Riskin share the process behind the podcast.

“It's really a tremendously fragile time for our democracy," said Carol Rose

Forager Tyler Akabane's Somerville store, The Mushroom Shop, is a mycophile's dream come true.

Nancy Gertner tells Boston Public Radio about the lawyers fighting for reproductive healthcare.

Porter Square Books' Katharine Nazzaro and Frugal Bookstore’s Clarrissa Cropper list their favorites.

With the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, many fear restrictions on IVF.

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin celebrates 20 years since Team of Rivals was published, the one book Barack Obama said he’d want on a desert island. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins for “Ask the Mayor.” We talk to her about Mass & Cass, whether she’ll insert herself into the Markey/Moulton Senate race, new pushback from Boston’s business community, and Trump’s suggestion this month about pulling the World Cup from Foxboro. Rasa Quartet performs for Live Music Friday. They’re on tour across New England with a Halloween-themed show called Soundtrack to a Nightmare.

Today: Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J-Street, discusses the cautious hope many are feeling in the days after a ceasefire took hold in Gaza, and how American Jews are responding to this political moment.

BPR Full Show 10/23: AITA For Tearing Down White House?

The Culture Show's Jared Bowen discusses the Louvre heist, and ballroom demolition at the White House and an Indigenous art at the ICA.NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey on the Shakespearean trajectory of Bill Belichicks career, Shohei Ohtani's run for GOAT of baseball, and a women's pro baseball league coming to Boston.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest Trump effort to send national guard troops to Portland, Oregon. Plus, Virginia Giuffre's memoir.Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery zooms in to discuss how poison in dolphin brains near Miami might be a warning for Alzheimer's in humans. And, she'll reflect on the loss of one of her own idols through life, Jane Goodall.

Today:We hear from listeners about the sticking issue of the government shutdown: healthcare costs.