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Coming up Wednesday on BPR, live from the BPL:
Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem
Brandeis University President Arthur Levine about his new book "From Upheaval to Action: What Works in Changing Higher Ed,”
Summer camp segment with Jeanne Sherlock from Metro West YMCA and Chris Smith from After School and Beyond
The Ellie Fund's executive director Meredith Mendelson
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Independents Day: Evan Falchuk and Jeff McCormick On Boston Public Radio
Independent candidates Evan Falchuk and Jeff McCormick joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on Boston Public Radio. Highlights include:Evan FalchukJeff… -
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Future of Market Basket
Three weeks have now passed since protests began at the grocery store chain Market Basket. If the latest news out of the company -- that it is drastically… -
Regulation Will Not Kill Airbnb, Says Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn
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Could Your Wrinkles Raise Your Insurance Premium?
Recent developments in facial recognition technology have made it possible to measure a person’s lifespan based on facial appearance, and insurance… -
O.J. Simpson Trial Legacy Gets A Reality Check From Bob Thompson
Celebrities, murder, sex, drugs and one unusually slow car chase. The O.J. Simpson trial had all of the elements needed to make it one of the 1990s’…
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BPR Full Show 4/08: Ask The Mayor with Michelle Wu
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins for Ask The Mayor.Then NBC Sports Boston anchor/reporter Trenni Casey discusses an NCAA $2.8 billion settlement, the Red Sox Mookie Betts trade getting Trump's attention and the Women's Final Four. CNN's John King zooms in for the latest national political headlines.Plus, Andris Nelsons & Chad Smith of the Boston Symphony Orchestra join ahead of a Friday Yo-Yo Ma performance of the works of Shostakovich. -
BPR Full Show 4/7: Budget Meals In This Economy
Anand Giridharadas of The Ink newsletter discusses national politics & this weekend's protests across the countryRetired federal judge Nancy Gertner discusses Trump's third term talk and the latest on cases before the Supreme Court.Fiona Hill, senior fellow at Brookings and was the senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council during Trump's first administration on what has/hasn't changed.Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price discuss the decline of empathy as a valued trait in certain faith communities -
Best Of BPR 4/07: Fiona Hill On Trump, Putin And Threats To Democracy Worldwide
Today:Fiona Hill has spent decades studying Putin and Russia – both as a scholar and as a US intelligence official – serving in George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump administrations. She discusses the shift in foreign policy agenda in the first few weeks of Trump's second administration, and threats to Democracy worldwide. -
Best Of BPR 04/04: Boston Lyric Opera's Carousel
The Boston Lyric Opera's 80th anniversary production of "Carousel" starts tonight, and brings the beloved show back to its beginnings at the historic Colonial Theater – in 1945.We speak with Boston Lyric Opera CEO Bradley Vernatter, director and visionary Anne Bogart, and Boston Foundation's Lee Pelton, making his theatrical debut. Plus, performances from Chelsea Basler, Brendan Shapiro, and Mary Kray. -
