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Today on Boston Public Radio: We aired live audio from Friday's impeachment testimony, and opened our lines to hear impressions from callers.

Today on Boston Public Radio: MSNBC “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd discussed Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, and the addition of Deval Patrick to the 2020 presidential race. We opened our lines to callers to hear your thoughts on Wednesday’s impeachment hearing. Former Suffolk County Sheriff and Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral discussed efforts to save Rodney Reed, a Texas man currently facing the death penalty. Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigrant Forum, discussed the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on DACA, and its potential implications for the Trump presidency. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick phoned in to discuss his newly announced campaign for president. Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, spoke about gun violence in the shadow of Wednesday’s shooting at a Santa Clarita high school, as well as the looming $100,000 per year cost of college tuition. Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn discussed the failures of leadership at Boeing in the wake of a botched apology from the company’s CEO over malware that caused two plane crashes. Activist and folk singer Joan Baez, alongside Betsy Siggins, co-founder of Cambridge’s Club Passim, discussed the singer's career and the legacy of the famed folk venue on the eve of its 60th anniversary concert.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We aired live audio from Wednesday's public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened the lines to hear your thoughts on a potential 2020 presidential run by former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. Montana Governor Steve Bullock discussed his own 2020 run, and his views on the future of the Democratic Party. Former Secretary of Transportation James Aloisi and Chris Dempsey, Director of Transportation for Massachusetts, discussed mishaps on MBTA shuttle buses, and the ongoing debate over how aggressively to invest in Massachusetts transportation. Food writer Corby Kummer spoke about a surge of baguette vending machines in France, and a new study decrying the rise of hyper-palatable foods in the U.S. NBC Sports Boston Reporter Trenni Kusnierek discussed the New York Times opinion piece by runner Mary Cain, and the firing of former Bruins coach Bob Cherry from “Hockey Night” following his anti-immigrant comments. CNN’s John King broke down what to expect from the upcoming public impeachment hearings. Actor Marika Aubrey spoke about the musical “Come From Away,” which is playing at the Citizens Bank Opera House through November 17.

Hold tight to your baguettes - the French countryside is beginning to lose many of its bakeries. Food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio *on Tuesday to speak about why modern day consumerism is driving the death of rural bakeries and what this poses for communal camaraderie. "It's why we go to France - for the village bakery in every town," Kummer said. "We want it to be charming when we go to France but [the French] are living in the modern world, and the modern world is not good to artisan bakeries." The increased demand for instant delivery and detached shopping experiences is leading to the closure of many small town bakeries, Kummer said. "People are following the method of ordering Amazon delivery and going to malls because they want convenience - it's happening everywhere." The closing of bakeries also ends the breaking-of-bread camaraderie that community members share, Kummer added. "The bakery, in many of these villages, was the last place you could meet people - it's just a natural mingling place and community organizer as opposed to self-service super markets where you don't really talk to people," he said. "Mayors and various villagers have been trying to reconstitute these [bakeries] because they want a center when they see people in line and meet other villagers." *Kummer is a *senior editor at The Atlantic*, an award-winning food writer, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy.