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Coming up Thursday on BPR:
Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung
Former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral
Environmentalist Bill McKibben
GBH’s Jared Bowen
Recent segments
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Rep. Lynch On Why He's Supporting Biden: 'We Need A Return To Normalcy'
On Tuesday, Lynch urged voters to back the former vice president. -
John King: Warren Has 'A Lot To Prove' Today, On Super Tuesday
If Senator Elizabeth Warren doesn't earn many delegates today, her presidential campaign will have to rethink its future, King said. -
New Documentary Shows The Discriminatory History Of Public Housing
A new PBS documentary details the discrimination that minority people faced living in public housing. -
Bob Thompson On 'Love Is Blind,' Hillary's New Hulu Documentary, And Other TV Headlines
Is love really blind? Thompson walks us through Netflix's latest reality TV show. -
All Rev'd Up: The NAACP's Denial Of Boston's Proposed Slave Monument
The Boston branch of the NAACP wanted there to be a process surrounding the artwork, since it would've been placed in a public space. -
BU Epidemiologist Sandro Galea Talks Coronavirus
Galea said Americans shouldn’t panic, but should practice “the basic hygiene that we should always be doing."
Listen to previous shows
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BPR Full Show 7/25: Beaches and Burgers
Local woman, coyote wrangler and NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell guest hosts with Jim.Julie Millican, Vice President of Media Matters, joins for this week’s edition of Press Play media analysis. Irish folk band Solas performs ahead of this weekend's Lowell Folk Festival. We also talk with festival founders Seamus Eagan and Winnie Hogan, plus executive director Lee Viliesis.GBH's Callie Crossley discusses a protest on Nantucket against Vice President JD Vance, WBZ layoffs, Trump’s latest push to prevent “woke AI," new Obama conspiracy theories and reflections on the death of Hulk Hogan and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Rep. Jake Auchincloss and MIT economist Jon Gruber join to talk about their recent essay called “The Case for New Cities." -
Best Of BPR 7/24: Genocide Scholar On Gaza & GBH CEO On Rescission
Today:Omer Bartov is the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He joins us to discuss his view that Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza constitute genocide.Then GBH CEO Susan Goldberg stops by studio 3 to update us on the impacts of losing federal funding. -
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Best Of BPR 7/23: Fired Market Basket Execs Allege Hostile Takeover & La Saison's Road From Tehran To Boston
Today:Market Basket executives Tom Gordon and Joe Schmidt join Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to discuss their firings, in the wake of speaking out against the company's latest. And, husband-and-wife owners of La Saison bakery, Soheil Fathi & Sarah Moridpour discuss their journey from Tehran to the Boston area. -
BPR Full Show 7/23: Have We No Shame?
GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discusses the Labubu craze and 200 years of American Art on display at the PEM.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses Israel's expanded attacks in central Gaza, the growing daily deaths at food and humanitarian sites operated by the IDF, and France's media organization calling for the removal of its freelancers who remain in Gaza, citing starvation.Market Basket employees -- Joe Schmidt and Tom Gordon -- were fired hours after Schmidt appeared on our show yesterday. We check back in with them on the latest in the Market Basket family feud. Ariel Foxman is the VP of brand and experience for the Boston Seaport and Brandon Cardet-Hernandez is a Boston School Committee and member of the Mass council for Latino Empowerment. They are married, and join for our "How Do You Two Know Each Other?" segment.Soheil Fathi and Sarah Moridpour of La Saison Bakery join to discuss their journey from Tehran to Boston.