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Boston Public Radio Podcast

Boston Public Radio Podcast

Written by: GBH News
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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. We feature our favorite conversation from each show. To hear the full show, please visit wgbhnews.org/bpr To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call or text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11AM-2PM Monday through Friday.

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Episodes
  • BPR Full Show 1/23: ICE And Ice Dams
    Jan 23 2026

    For our weekly media analysis segment “Press Play," GBH’s Callie Crossley and The Bay State Banner’s Ron Mitchell talk about press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisting Trump never mixed up Greenland with Iceland ... and Bari Weiss' retribution campaign against 60 Minutes reporters.

    The Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism found that antisemitism is on the upswing in the state. We talk to commission members David Friedman and State Rep. Simon Cataldo about the latest report and their recommendations.

    For Live Music Friday, the new ‘You Can't Beat Boston' initiative unveils its original song, written and performed by Berklee College of Music students. We talk to two CEOs behind the initiative: Tom Hayes, CEO of Ocean Spray and Boathouse CEO John Connors. Plus, Berklee dean Rodney Alejandro.

    And, because everyone’s talking about this weekend's whopper winter storm, we talk to GBH meteorologist David Epstein.

    NBC10 Boston's media maven Sue O'Connell on the 32% of Americans who think the country is better off under Trump, and what’s behind the constant Band-Aid and makeup on Trump's hand.

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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • BPR Full Show 1/22: Applying To Join ICE
    Jan 22 2026

    Political analyst and podcaster Chuck Todd

    Food policy analyst Corby Kummer

    Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler

    Slate journalist Laura Jedeed who was offered a job at ICE after “minimal vetting

    Former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral


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    2 hrs and 41 mins
  • BPR Full Show 1/21: Bridging The Divide Through Service
    Jan 21 2026

    The Culture Show's Jared Bowen on the death of fashion designer Valentino and Boston's Winteractive art installations.

    Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on President Trump's continued threats against Greenland that are sowing chaos among European allies at Davos.

    Singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield performs for Live Music Friday. Her new album is called “Lightning Might Strike.”

    Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and her son Joe Kearns Goodwin join for a panel discussion on whether public service, civil or military, could bridge our country’s political divide.

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    2 hrs and 31 mins
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