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During Martha Coakley's concession speech this morning at her campaign's headquarters in Somerville, one subject in particular made her visibly emotional:…

One of the most exclusive clubs in the city became even more exclusive yesterday after the death of Tom Menino: the club of Boston mayors. Today, there…

Nancy Koehn never thought she would get cancer, and she sure as hell never thought she would get it twice. Her second diagnosis came over the phone. She…

Feeling a little hungry right now? You will be after this week's News Quiz, where top-notch chefs Jody Adams of Rialto and Trade and Steve DiFillippo of…

Get in the Halloween spirit with Boston Public Radio's Friday News Quiz! This week, Chuck Lechien, Jr., founder and creative director of the Boston Circus…

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, July 16th, 2018. We took on the Putin-Trump press conference in Helsinki and other political headlines with Jessica Tocco, senior vice president at Rasky Partners, and Philip Johnston, president and CEO of Johnston Associates and former chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Despite the Russia indictments, nothing has gotten in the way of the Trump and Putin powwow. Washington Post columnist and Tufts Fletcher School professor Daniel Drezner joins us for that and more. At the Republican State Convention three months ago, Governor Charlie Baker told delegates that he backs the death penalty for people who kill police officers. The fatal shooting of a Weymouth police officer and a bystander yesterday opened that debate once again: should Massachusetts reinstate capital punishment for people who kill cops? We opened the lines to ask you. TV authority Bob Thompson joined us for his take on the Emmy nominations, Sacha Baron Cohen’s return to TV and more. In another installment of All Revved Up, Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III join us to take on the moral dilemmas of the day, including the reopening of the Emmett Till case. Then, it's another edition of Village Voice, where we discuss poetry and how it can help us to better understand our lives and our times, with presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco. We opened up the lines one more time to ask you about the latest in the state trooper scandal.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, July 13th, 2018. We opened up the lines to you about the future of baseball — has America's pastime been relegated to the past by long games, expensive beer and an emphasis on home runs? Emily Rooney joined us for her famous list of fixations and fulminations. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh joined BPR for our monthly installment of "Ask The Mayor." Business columnist Shirley Leung gave us her take on equal pay at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Under The Radar's Callie Crossley explained how Doug Jones might vote for President Trump's Supreme Court pick. Actor Faran Tahir and the Director Steven Maler joined us for a Commonwealth Shakespeare Company news quiz.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, June 26th, 2018. Boston City Council President Andrea Campbell came in to talk about her proposal to let non-citizens vote in city elections. We took your calls about the effect that chain stores have on Boston neighborhoods. Andrea Cabral talked about what Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination means for the death penalty. WGBH's Science Correspondent Heather Goldstone explained how Scott Pruitt's short tenure at the EPA could have lasting consequences. We opened up the lines to you about the fact that the Thai cave rescue is about to get two adaptations on the silver screen. What movies got historical events right, and which ones didn't? We continued our coverage of the Massachusetts primaries with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Massie. Jonathan Alsop of the Boston Wine School explained what makes a Bordeaux and what makes a Bor-don't — in other words, why a global movement is demanding that a wine's birthplace is printed on the bottle.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, July 11th, 2018

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, July 10th, 2018