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Coming up Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Live Music Friday with three time Poet laureate Robert Pinsky
Former executive editor of the New York Times Jill Abramson
NBC 10 Boston media maven Sue O’Connell
Recent segments
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Politico's Stephanie Murray On Mass. Senate Race: 'It's Expensive, It's Ugly, And The Stakes Are Very High'
"The Massachusetts Playbook" author called in to Boston Public Radio to discuss the latest headlines in Mass. politics. -
Juliette Kayyem: America Won't Start Feeling 'Normal' Until Late 2021
Rates of infections will increase until a vaccine or a change in leadership arrives, Kayyem said. -
Nia Grace Discusses Boston Black Restaurant Month
The initiative to encourage diners to visit Black-owned restaurants is being led by the Boston Black Hospitality Coalition. -
Sue O'Connell On Trump's Statement That Biden Is 'Against God'
O'Connell is NECN's political commentator and explainer-in-chief. -
Emily Rooney On Schools' Reopening Plans
Most schools are taking very thoughtful approaches to their reopening plans, Rooney says. -
Corby Kummer On Prisoner-organized Memorial Lunch For George Floyd
In their own way, inmates at the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan honored George Floyd.
Listen to previous shows
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BPR Full Show 3/11: Popcorn And The Movies
Alan Khazei, founder of City Year, discusses the value of public service.Alex Green talks about his book A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled, which is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Senator Ed Markey zooms in to discuss the cost of war with Iran.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses AI-assisted warfare, and the bomb threat near Gracie Mansion in New York City. Then, Juliette sticks around for our conversation about popcorn. -
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BPR Full Show 3/09: Jim's Daylight Crusade
Emerald Necklace Conservancy President Karen Mauney-Brodek and NAACP Boston's Ed Burley join to discuss their group's opposition to Mayor Wu's White Stadium plan.NBC Sports Boston anchor-reporterTrenni Casey on the battle over security funding for the FIFA World Cup in Foxborough.Boston Medical Center's Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses a new study that finds Tylenol use in pregnant women declined after President Trump and RFK Jr.'s made unfounded claims last fall that the drug cases autism. GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen joins us to discuss the BSO declining to renew Andris Nelsons' contract. -
BPR Full Show 3/06: The Potato Heads
Anand Giridharadas of The.Ink Substack and MSNBC commentator joins for Press Play, our weekly media analysis segment, to discuss Pete Hegseth's Iran press conferences in front of a new, friendlier press corps this week.Flutist Jamie Baum joins us for Live Music Friday, ahead of a show at Scullers on Saturday. Steve Elman, former jazz host and one of Jamie's professional cheerleaders, also joins us in Studio 3.NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell discusses the bar owner facing sanctions for Patriots players' bad behavior, and a rise in homophobic bullying at school hockey programs across the state, in the wake of Heated Rivalry's popularity.