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Boston Public Radio hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude.

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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. To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call/text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join us live at our Boston Public Library studio every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. We stream every day on YouTube.com/GBHNews.

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Princeton University's Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Axios business editor Dan Primack
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner

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Local Coach Dies In Helicopter Crash Alongside Kobe Bryant

Former Brewster Whitecaps coach John Altobelli was among those killed in the crash that killed Kobe Bryant.

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BPR Politics Round Table: Will Republicans Call John Bolton To Testify In Impeachment Trial?

On Sunday, revelations surfaced that in an unpublished manuscript former national security advisor John Bolton was ordered to withhold aid to Ukraine.

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The reverends discuss the power of Ayanna Pressley going public about her alopecia.

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Emily Rooney Defends Lack Of Impeachment Coverage On Fox News

The "Beat the Press” host stuck to her guns when pressed by Jim and Margery.

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Best Of BPR 8/15: Imari Paris Jeffries On Hope & JG Wentworth On Your Mind

Today:Andrea Cabral fills in for Margery. We talk with Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston about the politics of hope, and a need to fundamentally change our political habits – if you want to start eating better, you’ve got to stop buying potato chips.And, we subject you all to the New England jingles that live rent free in our brains. Who even gets those cars for kids? And what about Wachusett?

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BPR Full Show 8/13: How To Load A Dishwasher... Without Making Enemies

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Best Of BPR 8/13: Parental Advisory: Regret & Queen Of Versailles

Best Of BPR 8/13: Parental Advisory: Regret & Queen Of Versailles

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013.

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Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the co-host of Boston Public Radio.During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.

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