Boston Public Radio Podcast

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, March 1st, 2019. We spoke with legal analyst Michael Zeldin about Michael Cohen’s testimony in front of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday. We opened up the lines to ask our listeners if they think they could unplug themselves from technology for 24 hours. Tech writer, blogger and podcaster Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko on Twitter) joined us to discuss MobiCom 2019, the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Interim editorial page editor for the Boston Globe, Shirley Leung joined us to discuss the controversy surrounding the licensing of the Encore Casino in Everett. We spoke with Under the Radar host Callie Crossley about allegations that North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows is racist. Chef Tiffani Faison and her wife and business partner Kelly Walsh joined us for our weekly news quiz.  

Food critic Corby Kummer joined BPR to talk about why American's aren't eating as many Kraft singles as they used to and the overall decline of processed cheese consumption.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 28th, 2019.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, February 26th, 2019. Art Caplan, the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, discussed Trump's proposal for dealing with drug dealers and the future of tackle football. Caplan is also a Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty chair and the co-host of the *Everyday Ethics *podcast. Boston Globe Columnist, Alex Beam, whose latest book is “The Feud: Vladimir Nabakov, Edmund Wilson and the End of a Beautiful Friendship,” was joined by syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail Reverend Irene Monroe, to talk about the "Autobiography of Malcom X" for this month's BPR book club. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution from a message parlor in Jupiter, Florida. We opened the lines to hear how these charges will impact your opinion of the Patriots and of Kraft. Attorney General Maura Healey joined us to take our questions

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, February 25th, 2019. Jennifer Nassour, former chairman of the MassGOP and COO of ReflectUS, and Steve Kerrigan, president and co-founder of the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund and former CEO of the DNC, joined us to talk about the latest political headlines and preview Michael Cohen testimony on Wednesday. Charlie Sennott, WGBH news analyst and the founder of the GroundTruth Project, discussed President Trump's peace summit with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un in Vietnam this week. Roger McNamee, the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners, talked about his new book, * Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe* Keith Lockhart, Boston POPS Conductor, previewed the upcoming season of the POPS. Irene Monroe,syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University School of Theology, and Emme

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, February 22nd, 2019. Rep. Ayanna Pressley joined us to talk about how she is fighting against Trump’s emergency declaration. President of the Boston Public Library David Leonard and the founder of the internet archive Brewster Kahle talked about their joint effort to digitize the library’s record collection. The host of WGBH’s Beat The Press Emily Rooney talked about the owner of the Patriots Robert Kraft being charged with soliciting prostitutes. Michael Norton, a Harold M. Brierley professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, talked about his most recent study that shows hostile moderators are more effective than kind ones. His latest book is* Happy Money, the Science of Happier Spending.* Shirley Leung, interim editorial page editor for the* Boston Globe,* discussed the latest news about the Wynn casino. Callie Crossley, the host of *Under The Radar *on WGBH, discussed the recent privacy violations and Facebook posts about

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 21st, 2019. Chuck Todd, the moderator of Meet the Press, called in to talk about the latest developments in the Mueller investigation. You can catch Meet the Press Sunday mornings at 10:30 on NBC Boston, that’s channel 10 on most providers. Todd is also the host of Meet the Press Daily on MSNBC, and the political director for NBC news. Congressman Stephen Lynch, chairman of the House of Representatives’ National Security Subcommittee, was in the studio to discuss immigration, among other national issues. Lynch represents the 8th district. Andrea Cabral, the CEO of Ascend, former Suffolk County sheriff and secretary of public safety, joined us to discuss the latest developments regarding actor Jussie Smollett's fabricated hate crime. Geoff Edgers, the national arts reporter for The Washington Post, *joined us to talk about his new book, *Walk This way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song that changed American Music forever Paul Reville, former sta

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, February 20th, 2019. Former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe told Anderson Cooper last night that it is possible President Trump is a Russian asset. We opened the lines to hear your thoughts about McCabe’s comments and if you feel numb by onslaught of dramatic news? Robert Kuttner, co-editor of the The American Prospect, joined us to talk about his recent article on rise of radicalism in America. Boston Globe Cannabis Reporter Dan Adams discussed all the latest news regarded Massachusetts budding marijuana industry. WGBH Arts Editor and the host of Open Studios Jared Bowen talked about the hot plays and movies to see this week. Shirin Jafaari, a reporter at PRI’s The World, discussed her recent travels throughout Saudi Arabia and how the country is changing. Journalist, Naturalist and BPR contributor Sy Montgomery gave us her thoughts on the latest stories throughout the animal kingdom. Her latest book is How to Be A Good Creature: A Memoir

Food critic Corby Kummer joined BPR to talk about the future of genetically produced meat.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has announced he's running for president again. We opened the lines to ask our listeners: Are you in? If you voted for Sanders in 2016, are you going to give him another try? Now that there are other candidates who also bring a progressive voice to the race, has his outsider’s edge worn off? Anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Boston Trenni Kusnierek joined us from Florida, where she’s covering the Boston Red Sox spring training. Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, joined us to discuss his latest book, "There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration." Corby Kummer, a senior editor at The Atlantic, an award winning food writer and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy, joined us to discuss pay-what-you-can cafes. Are they a noble business venture or failed from the start? Michael Zeldin, a resident fellow in the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy Scho

Charlie Chieppo, principal of Chieppo Strategies and senior fellow at both the Governing and Pioneer Institutes, and Shannon O’Brien, former state treasurer and Democratic nominee for governor, joined us to discuss the latest political headlines. TV guru Bob Thompson told us what to check out in the world of television. Thompson is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a trustee professor of television and popular culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse. Darla Shine, the wife of President Trump’s deputy chief of staff for communications, took to Twitter last week to promote anti-vaxxer dogma in response to a recent measles outbreak in Washington state. She suggested that diseases such as measles “keep you healthy and fight cancer.” Medical ethicist Art Caplan joined us to explore this and more. Caplan is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty chair and director of the division of medical ethics at the NYU Langone Medical Center.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, February 15th, 2019. Amid financial setbacks, General Electric decided to scale back its plans for a headquarters by selling its Seaport District property and doing away with most of the jobs that would come with it. Did Massachusetts get duped? Or is it a win that the state will be reimbursed the $87 million of tax incentives we gave them to move to Boston? Shirley Leung, the Boston Globe’s interim editorial page editor and a WGBH contributor, joined us for that and more. Then, on top of GE pulling out of Boston, Amazon bailed on New York, rescinding its plans to develop another headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. We opened the lines to ask you, is it time we bail out on corporate America? As she does every Friday, Emily Rooney joined us for her famous list of fixations and fulminations, and more. Rooney is the host of Beat The Press on WGBH and a Boston Public Radio contributor. We review the latest headlines at the intersection of tech, policy

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 14th, 2019. It is the one year anniversary of the Parkland shooting where 17 students were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. We opened the lines to hear our listeners' thoughts about the state of gun control a year after this tragedy. Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam talked about how humans are living longer, but not necessarily better. Beam's latest book is "The Feud. Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson and the end of a Beautiful Friendship." Andrea Cabral, former Suffolk County Sheriff Secretary, discussed the Supreme Court's decision to allow Alabama to execute a Muslim inmate without an Imam at his side. Andris Nelsons, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Mark Volpe, Eunice and Julian Cohen President and chief executive officer of the BSO, discussed their recent Grammy win and the new Tanglewood Learning Institute. Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn talked about how tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon are all th

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, February 13th, 2019. We spoke with Sen. Ed Markey about the Green New Deal. Carolyn Beeler, the environment reporter for The World, called us from Antarctica, where she’s embedded with the research vessel the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which is on expedition to Thwaites Glacier. We spoke with economist Jonathan Gruber about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax on people with assets in excess of $50 million. National security expert Juliette Kayyem discussed the controversy between billionaire Jeff Bezos and The National Enquirer. We discussed a new bill in Oregon that could eliminate vaccine exemptions for parents after an outbreak of measles in the state. We asked Sue O’Connell, host of NECN’s “The Takeaway,” whether America will elect a bachelor, like Sen. Cory Booker, to the White House. In the aftermath of the Westminster Dog Show, we asked our listeners how they felt about the practice of “clipping” dogs' nails, tails and ears, which is prevale

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, February 12th, 2018. The MBTA is considering fare hikes, which by their own projections would result in ridership declines, which could force more people to rely on cars or rideshare programs. We kicked off the show by opening the lines and asking our listeners: What’s the solution here? And where is the urgency? Bob Costas spoke out about the dangers of the NFL. Did it cost him his job? Trenni Kusnierek joined us for that and more. Kusnierek is an anchor and reporter for NBC sports Boston and a BPR contributor. Five years after sending text messages to her suicidal boyfriend encouraging him to kill himself, Michelle Carter is going to jail. ACLU Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose joined us to discuss the potential implications of this case on free speech. A collaboration between FRONTLINE and The Wall Street Journal investigates how a pediatrician got away with preying on his patients for years. We spoke with reporter Christopher Weaver about

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Monday, February 11th, 2019. We went over the latest headlines with our political roundtable, featuring Jennifer Braceras and Michael Curry. Braceras is a political columnist, senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, and a former Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; Curry is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Mass League of Community Health Centers and a member of the National NAACP Board of Directors. Television expert Bob Thompson shared his picks for the best and worst TV of the week. Thompson is founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse. Charles Sennott, founder of The GroundTruth Project and a WGBH News analyst, explained the deepening crisis in Venezuela. In 2020 coverage so far, we've read about how Kirsten Gillibrand eats chicken and Elizabeth Warren drinks beer

On today's episode of Boston Public Radio: Democrats have unveiled an ambitious new proposal for fighting climate change, the "Green New Deal." Joining us on the line to explain the proposal was Congressman Bill Keating of the 9th district of Massachusetts. Keating is on the House Foreign Affairs Committees, where he serves as chairman of the Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment Subcommittee. We opened up the lines and asked you: Do you think the Green New Deal could work? Do you support it? Emily Rooney, host of "Beat the Press," shared her famous list of observations and frustrations. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh took our questions and yours on "Ask the Mayor." Have the latest revelations about Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry doomed her shot at beating Trump? We asked Shirley Leung, interim editorial page editor for the Boston Globe. Callie Crossley, host of "Under the Radar with Callie Crossley," looked at the ways former First Lady Michelle Obama reinvented the book tour while promoting

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Thursday, February 7th, 2019

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Wednesday, February 6th, 2018. We spoke with Washington Post reporter Annie Linskey about the 2020 presidential race. We opened up the lines to hear what our listeners thought about President Donald Trump’s third State of the Union address. Congressman Seth Moulton joined us to give us his take on President Trump’s State of the Union address. We spoke with national security expert Juliette Kayyem about the latest developments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Harvard Law School professor Susan Crawford joined us to discuss her new book, “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and Why America Might Miss It.” Medical ethicist Art Caplan gave us his analysis on Trump’s third State of the Union Address. We opened up the lines and asked our listeners to share their memories of gym class in school, and whether they think physical education should be reformed or not. WGBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen joined us to talk about Bedlam’s production of “Pyg

Corby Kummer, senior editor at The Atlantic, award winning food writer, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy joined Boston Public Radio to talk about the growing movement of using food as medicine.