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This week on Boston Public Radio’s Friday News Quiz, actors and husband-and-wife duo David DeBeck and Shannon Lee Jones faced off. You may recognize him…

Does anyone look cool in a turtleneck?That’s the question posed by writer Troy Patterson is his latest article for the New York Times: “Can The Turtleneck…

At 10 in the morning on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey registered a 5.1 magnitude seismic event in the northern region of perhaps the most reclusive…

On Saturday, protestors in the Iranian capital of Tehran stormed the Saudi Arabian embassy, raiding it and setting it on fire.They were protesting Saudi…

Is ISIS really using videos of Donald Trump for recruitment?That’s the claim Hillary Clinton made in a Democratic debate last Saturday, saying: “He is…

Amid the circus of the 2016 political primaries, President George H. W. Bush—the careful, soft-spoken Senator who hated talking about himself—seems almost…

Listen to the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, May 1. (Happy May Day!) Featuring: sports reporter Trenni Kusnierick, ACLU Massachusetts director Carol Rose and ACLU lawyer Laura Rotolo, food writer and editor Corby Kummer, CNN host John King, and historian Nancy Koehn.

The full episode of Boston Public Radio from Monday, April 30, 2018. Featuring: a political roundtable with former Social Security Commissioner Mike Astrue and Suffolk University's John Nucci, Charles Sennott of The GroundTruth Project, television expert Bob Thompson, Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price, and medical ethicist Arthur Caplan.

This is the full episode of Boston Public Radio from Friday, April 27, 2018. Featuring: poet Kevin Young, "Beat the Press" host Emily Rooney, Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung, Harvard social psychologist Mike Norton, and a bird-themed news quiz featuring Mass Audubon.

The full episode of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, April 26, 2018. Featuring: NBC host Chuck Todd, Edgar B. Herwick III of WGBH's Curiosity Desk, author Robert Kuttner, Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, and Boston Globe columnist and noted local curmudgeon Alex Beam.

The full episode of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Featuring: WGBH arts editor Jared Bowen, homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem, Boston Globe consumer protections reporter Sean Murphy, medical ethicist Arthur Caplan, and Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Paul Reville.