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Coming up Tuesday on BPR, live at the BPL:
PBS documentarian Ken Burns
Farming panel with Ken Rapoport of Azuluna Foods and Christopher Grallert, Green City Growers
NBC Sports Boston’s Trenni Casey
GBH President & CEO Susan Goldberg
Ask The Mayor with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, 1-2pm
Recent segments
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How to plan work around your life, not the other way around
Charlie Warzel, an author and Atlantic newsletter writer, talks about the issues with modern work -
Top 5 Boston Public Radio segments from 2021
Listen to the top five Boston Public Radio conversations from 2021. -
The secret to happiness is more in your hands than you think, according to Arthur Brooks
Here are his tips on how to find happiness in an increasingly unhappy world -
Is Gen Z less religious? Not necessarily, say the Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III
“They're bringing their parents’ tradition, but revising it in a way that is far more inclusive,” Monroe explained. -
A puppy as a present? MSPCA director explains the do's and don'ts of holiday pet adoption
The most important factor is that pets are not gifted to someone who did not ask for one or who is not expecting a pet. -
Proposed Peabody 'peaker' plant 'misguided,' Environmental League of Massachusetts president says
Critics of the plant worry about the high levels of pollutants it will emit.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 2/18: "If You're Not At The Table, You're On The Menu"
Today: Federal funding cuts are threatening community healthcare, and equity across every industry. NAACP’s Michael Curry minces no words about DEI rollbacks, and the fragility of our healthcare system -- nationally and here in Massachusetts.And, CNN’s John King joins to talk about the fracturing of the media as Trump bans the Associated Press from the Oval Office & Air Force One. -
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Best Of BPR 2/13: Elon Musk Gave MIT Economist Jon Gruber Whiplash & Democracy When?
Today:Jon Gruber, head of MIT's economics department, joins to discuss Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.And, we open the lines as Donald Trump reopens communication with Russia's Vladimir Putin -- before Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy -- as the war in Ukraine enters three years of sustained bloodshed. -
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BPR Full Show 02/12: Losing Our Marbles
We start the show with "Ask the Mayor" with Michelle Wu. Harvard national security analyst Juliette Kayyem discusses President Trump's posturing on Gaza and attempts within the government to shield itself from DOGE.Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, on the Trump administration's assault on science and health research. Naturalist Sy Montgomery says its the season of love --- and not just for humans. New England foxes, skunks, coyotes, racoons, mink, and barred owls are getting hot and heavy around Valentine's Day.
