• BPR Full Show 12/23: December Ask the Governor
    Dec 23 2025
    BPR Full Show 12/23: December Ask the Governor
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    2 hrs and 43 mins
  • BPR Full Show 12/22: Holiday Fruitcake
    Dec 22 2025
    BPR Full Show 12/22: Holiday Fruitcake
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    2 hrs and 42 mins
  • Best Of BPR 12/19: On *That* Vanity Fair Piece & Live Music With Atikin Rose
    Dec 19 2025

    Today:

    Juliette Kayyem and Andrea Cabral fill in for Jim and Margery.

    GBH political reporter Adam Reilly and Bay State Banner publisher Ron Mitchell join for our media analysis segment Press Play.

    And, Atikin Rose joins for Live Music Friday, accompanied on piano by Hawk of "God-Tier Entertainment" and joined in the studio by the CEO of PUTINWORK Rob Kelley-Morgan.

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    34 mins
  • BPR Full Show 12/19: Headline Escapism
    Dec 19 2025

    GBH's Adam Reilly and The Bay State Banner's Ron Mitchell join for Press Play media analysis. This week, they talk about media reaction to Trump’s White House address, Brian McGrory returning to the Globe and a profile of the photographer who captured Trump staff for the Susie Wiles Vanity Fair profile.

    Boston Medical Center's Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett on the CDC reversing its position on Hepatitis B vaccines for infants, cutting funding for the American Academy of Pediatrics, RFK Jr.’s move to ban gender affirming care for young people, and the so-called "Christmas Coronary effect."

    Atikin Rose is an up-and-coming R&B singer songwriter with a new EP due out next year. She joins for Live Music Friday alongside talent manager Rob Kelley-Morgan.

    Tony Williams and Peter Gwiazda celebrate 25 years of the Urban Nutcracker. Tony is the show’s founder and creative visionary. Peter is a dancer with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

    NBC10 Boston media maven Sue O’Connell talks Epstein files, Brian Walshe, and a NYTimes profile of the woman caught in that Coldplay kiss-cam last summer.

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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • BPR Full Show 12/18: A Christmas Story.... 24/7
    Dec 18 2025
    BPR Full Show 12/18: A Christmas Story.... 24/7
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    2 hrs and 41 mins
  • Best Of BPR 12/17: International Human Rights Groups Are In 'Survival Mode'
    Dec 17 2025

    Today:

    Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, discusses the organization's work.

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    22 mins
  • BPR Full Show 12/17: Merry Moldy Chestnuts
    Dec 17 2025

    Volker Türk is the United Nations High Commissioner on human rights. We talk to him about the agency’s continued campaign against human rights violations worldwide, despite the U.S. pulling back support.

    Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest in the Brown University shooting investigation, as detectives scramble for footage of a possible suspect. Plus her thoughts on that Susie Wiles Vanity Fair article.

    Step aside vinyl, CDs and DVDs are BACK — at least for Gen-Z. We talk to The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen about that, plus the mythology of Hamnet and its connection to the Bard’s most famous soliloquy.

    While State auditor Diana DiZoglio’s effort to audit the legislature still hasn’t happened, despite the voters’ will, she’s launching a new ballot question that would subject both the Legislature and the governor's office to the state public records law. She joins us.

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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • BPR Full Show 12/16: Ask The Mayor | White Stadium
    Dec 16 2025

    CNN's John King on the latest national political headlines

    NBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey joins in person to discuss outrageous ticket prices for the World Cup and John Cena's retirement

    Food policy analyst Corby Kummer zooms in to discuss the Market Basket family back in court today

    Mahsa Khanbabai, attorney for Rumeysa Ozturk, zooms in to discuss her client's case

    Boston Mayor Michelle Wu answered listener questions for Ask The Mayor 1-2.

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    2 hrs and 41 mins