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Sixteen months of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear future are about to draw to a close at the end of March. Then, all eyes will be on Secretary of State…

After the women’s roller derby league Derby Dames graced the hallowed halls of Studio Three for News Quiz in January, we knew we couldn’t resist having on…

Attorney General Maura Healey joined Boston Public Radio for her inaugural edition of “Ask the AG,” where she tackled the issues of new regulations for…

American troops could remain in Afghanistan well into 2016, according to U.S. officials—a reversal of strategy from the Obama Administration’s original…

For their day jobs, they run two Massachusetts cities—Salem and Somerville—but occasionally Boston Public Radio can convince Kim Driscoll and Joseph…

You already know the story of what happened to the Titanic. But what about another famed ocean liner, the Lusitania?Erik Larson, author of The Devil in…

Today:Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin joins Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to reflect on lessons in leadership from her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, released 20 years ago this week.

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin celebrates 20 years since Team of Rivals was published, the one book Barack Obama said he’d want on a desert island. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins for “Ask the Mayor.” We talk to her about Mass & Cass, whether she’ll insert herself into the Markey/Moulton Senate race, new pushback from Boston’s business community, and Trump’s suggestion this month about pulling the World Cup from Foxboro. Rasa Quartet performs for Live Music Friday. They’re on tour across New England with a Halloween-themed show called Soundtrack to a Nightmare.

Today: Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J-Street, discusses the cautious hope many are feeling in the days after a ceasefire took hold in Gaza, and how American Jews are responding to this political moment.

BPR Full Show 10/23: AITA For Tearing Down White House?

The Culture Show's Jared Bowen discusses the Louvre heist, and ballroom demolition at the White House and an Indigenous art at the ICA.NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey on the Shakespearean trajectory of Bill Belichicks career, Shohei Ohtani's run for GOAT of baseball, and a women's pro baseball league coming to Boston.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest Trump effort to send national guard troops to Portland, Oregon. Plus, Virginia Giuffre's memoir.Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery zooms in to discuss how poison in dolphin brains near Miami might be a warning for Alzheimer's in humans. And, she'll reflect on the loss of one of her own idols through life, Jane Goodall.