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Katie Nolan hosts "Casuals," a SiriusXM podcast that takes a breezy, comedic look at sports news. She spoke with WBUR about how her Massachusetts roots have shaped her career.

Ben Abercrombie suffered a severe spinal cord injury in his first Harvard football game. He has worked hard in the following 8 years to finish his degree. Abercrombie joins WBUR's All Things Considered to share how it feels to finally be a Harvard graduate.

WBUR's All Things Considered talks with Massachusetts-based audio producer Samantha Broun about her Small True Things audio project and what she's hearing from students in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

In a new and totally LIVE episode of The Big Fib, recorded at The Mega Awesome Super Huge Wicked Fun Podcast Playdate, WBUR's podcast festival for kids in Boston, we find out if a human child contestant can spot which adult is lying about BUTTER. How long has butter been around? In what year did the United States eat the most butter? When was the first butter sculpture made? Play along and see if you can guess who is telling the truth on The Big Fib gameshow. For more great shows for kids and families visit GZMshows.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent ICE enforcement activity has made headlines across the region. This week, federal immigration agents arrested 17 people at a manufacturer in Kent. And The Seattle Times reports ICE officers appeared to arrest at least 3 people at a Seattle immigration court. But if you're stopped by ICE, everyone is entitled to certain rights and protections by law, no matter what your legal status is. In case you could use help knowing what those rights are, we speak to one Seattle immigration attorney about your rights if ICE shows up at your door, what not to do if you're pulled over by ICE, bystander rights and more. Guest Henry Hwang, one of the directing attorneys for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project Related Links NPR: What basic rights do people have if ICE stops them? A lawyer explains WBUR and NPR: 'Never seen anything like this': An immigration attorney on the arrest of a Tufts student The Seattle Times: Here’s what advocates are telling WA immigrants about ICE raids Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brian Shortsleeve, a Republican candidate for governor, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss his vision for the state and his track record as a top administrator at the MBTA under former Gov. Charlie Baker.

Self-driving taxi company Waymo is beginning to map Boston's streets. Scott Kirsner, a columnist with WBUR's editorial partner MassLive, says there's a long road ahead to make the vehicles work here.

Bernadette Jordan, the Canadian consul general in Boston, joins WBUR's Morning Edition.

An ICE arrest in Worcester has raised tensions in the city after one woman was taken into federal custody and local police arrested two others. WBUR's Simón Rios spoke with people who have starkly different versions of how the events unfolded.

This week Team Common is bringing you a story from WBUR arts and culture reporter Amelia Mason. It's a story about one of hip-hop's greatest wordsmiths Lupe Fiasco. Lupe, a visiting scholar at M.I.T., has been writing new music using the artwork on campus, and Amelia got the opportunity to talk to him about it. Greater Boston's weekly podcast where news and culture meet.

Boston Globe correspondent Bob Ryan joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the future of the Boston Celtics.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey joins WBUR's Morning Edition to react to U.S. House Republicans' proposal to slash hundreds of billions in Medicaid funding.

Columnist Scott Kirsner, with WBUR's editorial partner MassLive, talks about how AI is affecting the job market .

Lisa Sowle Cahill, a professor of theology at Boston College, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how the new pope's American background could inform his perspective and priorities.

Diocese of Worcester Bishop Robert McManus joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss what the election of Pope Leo XIV means for the Catholics in Massachusetts.

Jessie Rossman, attorney and legal director with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, was in the courtroom to represent Rümeysa Öztürk and spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins after the hearing.

WBUR's Simon Rios takes a look at the secrecy and lack of information that often follow immigration enforcement.

The Boston Floating Hospital was a children’s hospital that operated on a boat in Boston Harbor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Research: Berkeley Temple. “Threescore years and ten, 1827-1897: Pine Street Church ; Berkeley Street Church ; Berkley Temple.” Boston : Press of Samuel Usher, 1897. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008416560 Boston Floating Hospital. “A brief history of the Boston Floating Hospital.” 1906. https://archive.org/details/101725502.nlm.nih.gov/ Boston Floating Hospital. “Historical sketch of the origin and development of the Boston Floating Hospital.” 1903. https://archive.org/details/101727275.nlm.nih.gov Egan, Sarah A. “A Reply from the Boston Floating Hospital.” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Mar., 1911). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3405022 Friends of the Boston Harborwalk. “Precious Cargo On Board.” https://boshw.us/sign/precious-cargo-on-board/?lang=english Gilson, Grace. “Babies on a boat: When a floating hospital helped cure Boston’s children.” Boston Globe. 1/20/2022. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/20/metro/hospital-sea-that-once-cured-bostons-children/ Golden, Janet. “From Wet Nurse Directory to Milk Bank: Delivery of Human Milk in Boston, 1909-1927.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Vol. 62, No. 4. Winter 1988. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44443092 Halberstadt, Josephine. “The Boston Floating Hospital, Season of 1906.” The American Journal of Nursing , Feb., 1907, Vol. 7, No. 5 (Feb., 1907). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3403608 Hall, Mary I. “The Boston Floating Hospital.” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Jan., 1911). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3404922 Hastings, Robert W. “The Boston Floating Hospital.” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 3, No. 7 (Apr., 1903).” Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3401681 Hastings, Robert W. “The Boston Floating Hospital.” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 6, No. 7 (Apr., 1906). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3402905 Jimison, Robert. “Who’s the mystery child in this 103-year-old Floating Hospital photo?” CNN. 2/14/2017. https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/floating-hospital-1914-mystery-photo-history/index.html Keeling, Arlene. “Nursing On Board the Boston Floating Hospital.” Windows in Time. Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. October 2015. Kulig, John. “12 Things You Didn't Know About The History Of Boston's Floating Hospital For Children.” WBUR. 10/3/2014. https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2014/10/01/boston-floating-kulig NavSource Online: Identification Numbered Vessel Photo Archive. Boston Floating Hospital (ID 2366) https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/172366.htm “A History of the Boston Floating Hospital.” Vol. 19. No. 4. 1957. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.19.4.629 Perry, Charlotte Mandeville. “Our Floating Hospitals.” The American Journal of Nursing, Nov., 1900, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Nov., 1900). Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/3402614 Prinz, Lucie with Jacoba Van Schaik. “The Boston Floating Hospital: How a Boston Harbor Barge Changed the Course of Pediatric Medicine.” Tufts Medical Center. 2014. Tufts Archival Research Center. “Boston Floating Hospital.” https://archives.tufts.edu/agents/corporate_entities/9474?&page=13 Tufts CHSP. “End of an Era: The Closing of Tufts Children’s Hospital, Putting Inpatient Pediatric Care in Context.” 4/8/2022. https://sites.tufts.edu/chsp/2022/04/08/end-of-an-era-the-closing-of-tufts-childrens-hospital-putting-inpatient-pediatric-care-in-context/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Abby Chin, Celtics reporter for NBC Sports Boston, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to preview game two of the Eastern Conference semifinals and what the Celtics need to do to pull out a win.

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect back on his three decades leading the orchestral body.

Steve Biondolillo, organizer of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, and Bill Littlefield, a former WBUR host who will read poetry at Polar Park in Worcester this weekend, say there's plenty poetic about the the national pastime.

Susan Shaw joins WBUR's All Things Considered to offer advice for family and friends processing grief. 

WBUR's Candice Springer shares three awesome, local events that will get you outside in May. Check them out: Big Queer Food Fest Boston Public Art Triennial WBUR Festival Greater Boston's weekly podcast where news and culture meet.

Travis Ahern, the new executive director of the state's Cannabis Control Commission, joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss. 

Sports reporter Khari Thompson joins WBUR's Morning Edition to break down the quirky — but high-stakes — situation for the Patriots in the NFL draft.

Scott Harshbargar, former state attorney general,  joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how extraordinary this moment is for the legal profession.

Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard Law School professor, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Phil Eng, General Manager of the MBTA, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss what tariffs and Trump's reshaping of the federal government mean for the T.

UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences appointed by Pope Francis. He joins WBUR's All Things Considered to share his thoughts on the late Pope's legacy.

Congressman Jake Auchincloss is a Harvard University alumnus who has criticized the school in the past for its approach to protests over the war in Gaza. He joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the Trump administration's stripping of billions of dollars in federal funding from the school.

Sen. Ed Markey joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect on the life of Pope Francis. He died Monday at the age of 88.

Boston College theology professor Tom Groome joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the late pope's ties to Boston.

The 129th Boston marathon will be held Monday. Over the weekend, runners were flocking into the city ahead of the race. WBUR's marathon reporter Alex Ashlock joined us for a preview.

Live from WBUR Cityspace, this is the 2025 version of Des and Kara from Boston. In this episode, you get all of the normal, fun banter plus a section-by-section rundown of the Boston course from their experiences. If you are racing on Monday, then this is a must-listen before you toe the line for plenty of inspiration and some great course intel. For everyone else, there is plenty of humor and fun anecdotes to go around. Thank you to WBUR for hosting and to Brooks Running for their title sponsorship of the podcast!  

Stand-up comedian Joe List joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect on his Massachusetts roots ahead of a Saturday show at the Wilbur Theatre.

From playing shows to being recognized by WBUR, the Boston trio Falsely Accused has been on the move, and with their new EP, “Unbroken,” they pack a lot into five songs. Band members Mike Azzolino, Matt Tavano and Mark Young talk about the new elements from their last release, “Compression,” and how their music has grown since the 2021 album. We go into the different places the band has played at and what's on their musical bucket list. Mike, Matt and Mark give us the band's history, and their time working with Kennedy Studios in Burlington, Massachusetts. We talk about being on WBUR's “14 NE musicians to listen to this winter” list, how they've grown the band since they first formed and what we can expect down the road. Closing out this episode is “Witches” from the new EP, and you should definitely check it out.

WBUR's Lynn Jolicoeur joined Rodgers along the marathon route and spoke with him about Boston's role in his storied running career.

Julian Fray, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, joins WBUR's Morning Edition.

Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, has been talking to local entrepreneurs. He's joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share how local entrepreneurs say they are running their businesses in the face of volatility.

John Quackenbush, chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss what the freeze means for his work.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton joins WBUR's Morning Edition.

More than 3 billion people rely on seafood as a primary source of animal protein. But waters are warming, and fish are moving. Are those fish, and the communities that have relied on them for centuries, in trouble? We go around the world, from the rocky shores of New England to the picturesque island of Niue, to investigate how three popular fish are doing. Along the way, we meet people who are protecting and regrowing these fish populations in different ways and learn about their challenges and successes. This episode features reporting by Barbara Moran at WBUR, which was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center's StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. Columbia University's Duy Linh Tu contributed to the reporting.   Guests:  Tessa M. Hill, Oceanographer and Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis Mona Ainu'u, Minister for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Niue Jenn Caselle, Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara Climate One is hosting a series of live conversations as part of SF Climate Week 2025! Tickets for all four of our events, featuring leaders such as Jenny Odell, San José Mayor Matt Mahan, Rep. Jared Huffman, Abby Reyes, Margaret Gordon and two of this year's Goldman Prize winners are on sale now through the official SF Climate Week event calendar. Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you'll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today. For show notes and related links, visit our website. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The deadline to get a Real ID is May 7. After that, U.S. residents will need a Real ID, a passport or other approved identification to travel domestically and enter federal buildings. Georgia Commissioner of Driver Services Spencer Moore joins us. And, author and chef Eric Adjepong talks about his newest cookbook, "Ghana to the World." Then, Grammy-nominated composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol fuses traditional Turkish music with other styles on a custom electric oud. WBUR's Andrea Shea shares more about his work.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

More than 3 billion people rely on seafood as a primary source of animal protein. But waters are warming, and fish are moving. Are those fish, and the communities that have relied on them for centuries, in trouble? We go around the world, from the rocky shores of New England to the picturesque island of Niue, to investigate how three popular fish are doing. Along the way, we meet people who are protecting and regrowing these fish populations in different ways and learn about their challenges and successes. This episode features reporting by Barbara Moran at WBUR, which was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center's StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. Columbia University's Duy Linh Tu contributed to the reporting.   Guests:  Tessa M. Hill, Oceanographer and Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis Mona Ainu'u, Minister for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Niue Jenn Caselle, Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara Climate One is hosting a series of live conversations as part of SF Climate Week 2025! Tickets for all four of our events, featuring leaders such as Jenny Odell, San José Mayor Matt Mahan, Rep. Jared Huffman, Abby Reyes, Margaret Gordon and two of this year's Goldman Prize winners are on sale now through the official SF Climate Week event calendar. Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you'll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Massachusetts Congresswoman Katherine Clark, the House minority whip, joins WBUR's Morning Edition.

Markey spoke with WBUR's Morning Edition about the future of social security benefits and the impacts of the new tariffs implemented by the Trump administration. 

The International Institute of New England is one of the region's largest resettlement agencies. The Institute's CEO Jeff Thielman spoke with WBUR's Morning Edition about the dozens of refugees his agency is waiting to resettle in the region, and how already resettled families are feeling right now in this time.

Evan Horowitz joins WBUR's Morning Edition to make the case that neither Wu's nor Kraft's rent control proposals are good ideas.

Well, the messaging app Signal has been in the news recently, thanks to a snafu in which prominent federal defense officials mistakenly added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a group chat in which they discussed military strikes in Yemen. This whole situation reminds us of another conversation we've been having as a team about how to responsibly leak information to the press, and if there is such a thing as a "secure line." To answer this question, we reached out to our WBUR colleague, investigative and data reporter Todd Wallack. If you have a story you would like to share with us in a secure way, you can reach us on Signal (yes, Signal) at 646-456-9095 or email us at wbursecuretips@proton.me

Join host Blake Howard and a handpicked team of film experts as they ambush John Frankenheimer's RONIN (1998). Over 12 episodes, they'll explore the mysteries of the briefcase MacGuffin, praise co-writer David Mamet's tough, balletic dialogue, and break down the film's iconic action and chase sequences. Tune in because, as Sam says, 'Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you.'All your concerns will be addressed before we (Sean Burns, Peter Avellino and I) leave.Scene 2: 9.21-15.22Sean BurnsSean Burns is a film critic for WBUR's Arts & Culture and a contributing writer at North Shore Movies and Crooked Marquee. He was Philadelphia Weekly's lead film critic from 1999 through 2013, and worked as a contributing editor at The Improper Bostonian from 2006 until 2014. His reviews, interviews and essays have also appeared in Metro, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Boston Herald, Nashville Scene, Time Out New York, Philadelphia City Paper and RogerEbert.com.A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Burns was a recurring guest on the late David Brudnoy's WBZ 1030 AM radio show, and in 2002 received an award for Excellence in Criticism from the Greater Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists. Currently a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Critics Choice Association, he's also “the most annoyingest person ever,” according to his niece.WEBSITE: splicedpersonality.comTWITTER: @SeanMBurnsPeter AvellinoI'm a writer. I live in Los Feliz. Sometimes I go to the movies. There's more to tell, but not just now.WEBSITE: https://mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/TWITTER: @PeterAPeelJoin our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclusive weekly podcast + access to the OHM discord here.ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONSWEBSITE: ONEHEATMINUTE.COMPATREON: ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONS PATREONTWITTER: @ONEBLAKEMINUTE & @KATIEWALSHSTX & @OHMPODSSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy