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Coming up Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Live Music Friday with Wompanoag singer/songwriter Thea Hopkins
GBH’s Callie Crossley
Chef Tracy Chang and local civil rights trailblazer Marvin Gilmore
Democratic strategist James Carville
Recent segments
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Billy Dean Thomas is ecstatic for their Boston Calling debut
The rapper and singer will perform at the Boston Calling musical festival on May 26. -
Justice who helped legalize same-sex marriage in Massachusetts reflects on 20th anniversary
Chief Justice Margaret Marshall reflects on 20th anniversary of first legal same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. -
Lidia Bastianich to be honored with Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award
The Italian cooking show host will be honored for 25 years of PBS programming. -
Restaurateurs Tiffani Faison and Will Gilson address post-pandemic customer concerns
Local restaurateurs Tiffani Faison and Will Gilson addressed the challenges faced by the restaurant industry in a post-pandemic world. Gilson, owner of Puritan Oyster Bar, used Instagram to gather feedback from his followers about their dining dislikes. -
Rufus Wainwright will 'play for the village' at City Winery
The singer-songwriter spoke to GBH News ahead of two performances at City Winery. -
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin 'transported back in time' with student protests
Renowned historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke about the ongoing encampment protests and how it echoes the protests of the 1960s.
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 10/14: Ballot Question 5 Debate - Tipped Wages
Today on the podcast: BPR hosts its first of five ballot question debates, starting with Question 5 - to eliminate the tipped minimum wage, and bring tipped workers up to the state minimum wage, currently $15 an hour. Alex Galimberti, organizer for One Fair Wage Massachusetts and a former restaurant worker, argues in favor of eliminating the tipped wage. Opposite Alex, is Doug Bacon, local restaurateur aligned with the Committee to Protect Tips, against changing the tipped wage model. -
BPR Full Show 10/14: Raise Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers?
Our first debate of the week on Question 5 - the minimum wage for tipped workers -- with Alex Galimberti, founder of the organization’s Mass. chapter of One Fair Wage and former restaurant worker representing YES, and Doug Bacon, head of Red Paint Hospitality, on behalf of the Committee to Protect Tips, representing NO.We then opened the lines to hear listener thoughts on Q5.Charlie Sennott of the GroundTruth Project discussed the latest news from the Middle East.Medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed Harris' medical report and Vance's high-risk pool health insurance plan.Brooks Tingle, CEO of John Hancock, discussed life insurance and longevity ahead of the second annual John Hancock Longevity SymposiumWe ended the show discussing the companionship of dogs -
Best Of BPR 10/11: Where Deplatformed YouTubers Go To Spew Hate + LMF Odyssey Opera
Today: GBH investigative reporter Phillip Martin, journalist Tim Biba and Megan Squire of the Southern Poverty Law Center tell us about Odysee, an alternative YouTube for the alt-right. And, Grammy-winner Gil Rose, baritone Aaron Engebreth and soprano Heather Buck, preview “Of Thee I Sing” and “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” tomorrow night at Jordan Hall with Odyssey Opera. -
BPR Full Show 10/11: Bucket Lists
Gil Rose is our guest for Live Music Friday. He's leading a first-of-its-kind opera production that fuses two political satires from songwriting legends George & Ira Gershwin at NEC’s Jordan Hall.GBH News investigative reporter Phillip Martin, Tim Biba & the SPLC’s Megan Squire join to talk about the proliferation of Odysee, LBRY and other online platforms catering to white supremacists. Leonard Glass is a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who is co-author of the 2017 book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals Assess a President." He’s joins to talk about Trump’s mental fitness & the limits of the Goldwater Rule.Filmmakers Ken and Sarah Burns join to talk about their new four-hour, two-part film for PBS: Leonardo da Vinci.Then, we opened up the phone lines to talk about the Northern Lights and bucket list activities. -
Best Of BPR 10/10: Barbara Lynch Closes Shop + AITA For Hiring A Maid
Today:Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses Boston restaurateur Barbara Lynch announcing she's closing all her locations.And, we open the lines for Am I The A-Hole. This week's prompt involves an exhausted new mother fed up with her husband not helping out around the house, so she cancels his streaming services and hires a maid with the extra cash.