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Friday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Under the Radar's Callie Crossley
Live Music Friday with rapper and illustrator Nick Shea
Chocolate sommelier Victoria Kichuk
NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell
Recent segments
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                    Williamstown Theatre Festival Cancels Summer Season Amidst Coronavirus ConcernsThe season will, however, be available online to listen to on Audible.
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                    Stimulus Package For Healthcare System 'Won't Be Enough,' Says Jonathan GruberThe coronavirus stimulus package funds dedicated towards healthcare could be billions of dollars short in aid.
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                    Art Caplan: Rationing Guidelines Reflect Inequities Of Healthcare System, But Are 'What You've Got To Do'Massachusetts' new guidelines for rationing medical resources prioritize young and otherwise healthy people.
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                    Chris Muther And Cat Mrs. Davenport Review Freeze-Dried Meals For Social DistancingThe travel writer gave highest marks to the freeze-dried beef stroganoff
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                    D’Amato Says Food Bank Supplies Are OK, Despite 50% Demand IncreaseThe Greater Boston Food Bank president said she’s mostly concerned with keeping workers safe from COVID-19.
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                    Carol Rose: The ACLU Is Calling For An Equitable Response To The Coronavirus PandemicMassachusetts should release racial data for COVID-19 response, says civil liberties union.
Listen to previous shows
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                    Best Of BPR 11/07: AITA Trump Bumper StickersToday:We asked listeners about what you want to hear from us in the wake of Trump’s election? And you answered: All politics all the time is not what matters to you. So … Am I The A-Hole is back … When a Trump-supporting step-dad offers to let his son’s fiancée use his car – but it’s all MAGA’d out with bumper stickers – and she refuses to drive it … Is she the jerk, or is the grown man playing a prank on a teenage girl the a hole?
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                    BPR Full Show 11/7: It's ChickenNBC political director Chuck Todd joins with his reaction to Tuesday’s election.Then, we open up the phone lines to ask how Democrats can move forward after this national shift to the right and ask Trump voters why the Dems just weren't connecting with them.Former secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral talks about the implications of a GOP-controlled Senate (and possibly House) under a second Trump term. She also discusses whether Biden should pardon Trump and the future of Jack Smith’s investigation into 2020 election subversion. Former secretary of education Paul Reville reacts to Ballot Question 2, which scrapped the MCAS graduation requirement. Reville had a key role in the original implementation of MCAS, nearly 20 years ago. We then take your mind off politics by talking about chickens for five minutes. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung discusses her latest stories on women voter turnout and her interview with Katherine Clark. It's "Am I the A-hole" day. We ask about a dad who "pranked" his kids by covering their car with Trump bumper stickers.
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                    BPR Full Show 11/6: The 47th PresidentHistorian Doris Kearns Goodwin discussed the election, historic precedence for non-consecutive terms and moreNational security analyst Juliette Kayyem on threats to this election from other nations, and internally; and how the rest of the world is respondingMichael Curry of the NAACP spent election day in Michigan poll-watching. He talked about his experience and the election results generally.
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                    Best Of BPR 11/06: Doris Kearns Goodwin & Michael CurryToday:Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks us through a stunning Trump victory last night – an overperformance from the right, and a failure from the Democrats to rally voters behind Harris.And we talk with Michael Curry, of the NAACP, about the generational shift this election in terms of race and equity.
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                    BPR Full Show 11/5: Election Day Is HereElection Day has arrived. We had numerous local political figures call into our show. Senator Elizabeth Warren, GOP candidate John Deaton, Governor Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and representatives from each ballot question.We took listeners calls throughout the show to get first hand stories on what election day is looking like.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
