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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner
Tufts food policy analyst Corby Kummer
Boston Globe Camberville reporter Spencer Buell
Recent segments
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Are E-Cigarettes Just As Dangerous As The Real Thing?
Are e-cigarettes a safer alternative to lure kids away from real cigarettes? Probably not, a new study suggests. That study, conducted at the University… -
Martin O'Malley: DNC Is Rigging Primaries By Limiting Number Of Debates
Presidential candidate and former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for Boston Public Radio. Highlights from the… -
Are Psychologists Taking A 'Hypocritical' Oath By Fudging Data?
Next time you read a psychology study that makes you scratch your head, trust your instincts. A new yearlong effort to reproduce 100 studies from 3… -
Why THIS Harvard Law School Professor Wants To Be President: The Larry Lessig Story
Lawrence Lessig wants to be president. But when he gets there, he only wants to do one thing: enact a law called the Citizen Equality Act. Then he’ll… -
What Lessons Can Presidential Candidates Learn About Leadership From Ernest Shackleton?
“For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on… -
Europe's Migration Challenge Is Reaching A Crisis Point
This weekend, Hungarian police made a fifth arrest connected to the death of the 71 migrant workers whose corpses were found in a truck abandoned in…
Listen to previous shows
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Best Of BPR 5/20: Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis & Boston Pops' Keith Lockhart Finally Gives Us A Scoop
Today:Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett of Boston Medical Center discusses Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis.And, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart calls in with July 4 news. -
BPR Full Show 5/20: Fifty Years Of Shark Mania
NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey discusses the Celtics out of the playoffs and breaking news about Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson.Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett discusses Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis and new COVID-19 vaccine guidelines from the FDA.Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson joins for a summer movie preview and reflects on 50 years since Jaws premiered. CNN's John King joins remotely to discuss the opposition to Trump's big, beautiful tax bill. -
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BPR Full Show 5/16: Five Second Rule
Carbon Leaf joins for Live Music Friday, head of a performance at the Spire in Plymouth.Dan Primack is the business editor for Axios. He joins to talk about Trump’s business deals in the Middle East, Walmart’s tariff price hikes and HBO’s big re-re-re-brand to HBO Max.Director Gene Tempest & American Experience EP Cameo George talk about their latest project, “Mr. Polaroid,” a new documentary about the invention of the Polaroid camera (which started in Cambridge). Armani Thomas is a local artist who makes mini-paintings of Boston scenes and leaves the canvases up around the city. He chronicles his work on TikTok as @armoneythomas. Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner discusses yesterday's SCOTUS arguments on the 14th Amendment, along with other contested Trump executive orders and the sense that "rule of law" is ending in America. -
BPR Full Show 5/15: Full Of Baloney
Political analyst Chuck Todd with his weekly D.C. rundown.Rep. Ayanna Pressley talks about the return of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk. And, her new bill to stop the garnishment of wages for people with student loans in default. Dr. Sarah Fortune leads a tuberculosis research team at Harvard whose NIH funding was just cut by the Trump administration. She talks about the importance of scientific research and the future of her lab.MIT economist Jon Gruber explains how cuts to higher education will impact the biotech, medical and education economy in Massachusetts.