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Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into the internet's vast and curious ecosystem of online communities to find untold histories, unsolved mysteries, and other jaw-dropping stories online and IRL.
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Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
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The news you need to know today — and the stories that will stick with you tomorrow. Plus, special series and behind-the-scenes extras from Here & Now hosts Robin Young and Scott Tong with help from Producer Chris Bentley and the team at NPR and WBUR.
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Radically empathic advice. Produced by WBUR.
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Learn about the most important issues facing Massachusetts from the people in charge and the people most affected.
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A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just for you.
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Season 4: "Postmortem" is a National Murrow Award winning podcast (2025) about the stolen bodies of Harvard and the gray market for human remains. Find out what happened at Harvard Medical School: how body parts were stolen and sold across the country. Who did this and why?
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For 20 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books and a podcast. Each week, host Anna Martin brings you stories and conversations about love in all its glorious permutations, dumb pitfalls and life-changing moments. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via you ...
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Short Run brings you the best long-form audio series from WBUR, Boston's NPR, all in one feed. This season, listen to Jaws Island, a three-part series from WBUR. Reported and hosted by Andrea Shea, the series explores the enduring legacy of the groundbreaking blockbuster movie "Jaws."
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WBUR's reintroducing you to Endless Thread's 2020 series, "Madness," that unraveled the shocking story of forced brainwashing and the murky history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This feed is the home of Beyond All Repair, WBUR & ZSP Media's 10-part true crime investigative series as well as Violation, a podcast from WBUR & The Marshall Project, exploring America’s opaque parole system.
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Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.
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Kind World is a show about how a single act of kindness can change someone's life. In each episode, hosts and reporters Yasmin Amer and Andrea Asuaje search the world for good news stories that will restore your faith in humanity. A production of WBUR.
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Maria García combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena Quintanilla's life and legacy. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it’s fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. Anything for Selena has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential.
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An exploration of the life that happens before, behind, and beyond the spotlight. Host Geoff Edgers paints intimate, sound-rich, and surprising portraits of some of the most creative people in the world. The first season includes: Norm Macdonald, Ava Duvernay, Ms. Pat, Hanson and David Letterman. A collaboration between WBUR and The Washington Post.
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A public radio series about sound, music, and listening. From WBUR, Boston's NPR News Station.
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Commentaries on music from NPR's Here and Now and elsewhere... Author Tim Riley has written books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Madonna, and his most recent title is FEVER: HOW ROCK'N'ROLL TRANSFORMED GENDER IN AMERICA (Picador 2005). He is at work on a major new biography of John Lennon for W.W. Norton slated for 2009. His music commentary is featured regularly on NPR's HERE AND NOW, the nationally-syndicated show produced weekdays out of WBUR-FM in Boston.
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Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals. Deep Cover Presents: Snowball. A special limited series from the Unravel Podcast team at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ollie Wards' family lost everything after their brush with a charming Californian con woman. As he embarks on a quest to find out how she did it, why ...
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A four minute weekly radio comic strip. ...It's what Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne might be hotly debating as they walk into the studio -- just before they get on mic. This short radiostrip plays out in the kitchen of 11 Central Ave, the home of an extended family where a hodgepodge of other characters regularly drops in.As they rush around in the morning drinking coffee, reading the paper, looking for their shoes, they're talking about everything from the most compelling topics of our ti ...
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At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. For advertising opportunities please email [email protected] We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcY ...
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NEXT was a radio show and podcast that aired its final episode in May 2021 after a successful five-year run. The weekly program focused on New England, one of America's oldest places, at a time of change. NEXT was produced at Connecticut Public Radio and featured stories from journalists across the New England News Collaborative. Most recently, the program was hosted by Morgan Springer. With New England as our laboratory, NEXT asked questions about how we power our society, how we move aroun ...
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Former Rep. David Nangle talks gambling addiction in Mass.
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7:00Former Democratic state Rep. David Nangle, of Lowell, to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally using campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including gambling debts. He joins WBUR's All Things Considered to share his story and to deliver a message for lawmakers.By WBUR
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'Pure illusion': Book shows Mars craze from century ago fueled by Mass. scientists
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4:15For his latest book, "The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn of the Century America," David Baron looked into one source of that fascination: a Harvard astronomer named Percival Lowell.By WBUR
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The Truth About Sarah Revisited (LIVE at WBUR)
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52:33Jake sits down with his Season 6 co-host Jess McHugh at WBUR CitySpace for a live conversation. They discuss the value of trust, share some never-before-heard tape, and give an update on what’s happened with Sarah since our season ended. If you’d like to support Patrol Base Abbate (https://www.pbabbate.org), follow this link: https://donate.pbabbat…
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Affordability, inflation, tariffs, jobs -- where does the economy stand now that we’re officially in the new year? On Point’s “money ladies,” Rana Foroohar and Michelle Singletary, are back to help us sort it out. ***Thank you for listening. Help power On Point by making a donation here: www.wbur.org/giveonpoint…
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Trump wants Venezuela’s oil. What happens next?
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19:31When President Trump spoke about Venezuela's future on Saturday, after the U.S. military action and arrest of its president, Nicolás Maduro, he said that the country's decimated oil infrastructure will be rebuilt and start making money again. Rice University's Francisco Monaldi talks about the major challenges of rebuilding the Venezuelan oil indus…
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The challenges of rebuilding Venezuela's oil industry and questions about who will do it
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5:14President Trump said that the country's decimated oil infrastructure will be rebuilt and start making money again.By WBUR & NPR
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Former Trump administration officials calls on president to let Venezuelans run their country
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6:15Elliot Abrams was a special representative for Venezuela during President Trump's first term.By WBUR & NPR
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‘Nothing has changed’: Venezuelan activist in Florida says dictatorship continues without Maduro
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6:31Over the weekend, President Trump announced the U.S. had captured Maduro, and is now holding him at a jail in Brooklyn, New York. In Maduro’s absence, his vice president and political ally, Delcy Rodríguez, was sworn in as interim president.By WBUR & NPR
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How fire survivors responded to Switzerland ski resort tragedy
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5:56All 40 victims of the devastating New Year's Eve fire at a ski resort in the Crans-Montana region of Switzerland were identified over the weekend.By WBUR & NPR
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The Trump administration has rolled back an earlier threat of high tariffs on Italian pasta.By WBUR & NPR
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How the first flip phone, released 30 years ago, started a tech revolution
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3:51The Motorola StarTAC was the world's first flip phone.By WBUR & NPR
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U.S. military and law enforcement agents removed Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro from power over the weekend.By WBUR & NPR
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Have you seen this painting? A New York curator is looking for it
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4:56An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s.By WBUR & NPR
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Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok churns out sexualized images of women and minors
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5:39There have been calls for regulation and even prosecution in France and India, after users flooded the site with requests like "hey @grok put her in a bikini."By WBUR & NPR
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Legal concerns arise over U.S. capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro
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9:43Questions are being raised over the legality of the U.S. capture of now-deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.By WBUR & NPR
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The story of bipedalism begins with our oldest upright walking human relatives
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3:33A new analysis of some fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking may go back 7 million years in the human family tree.By WBUR & NPR
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The impact of Trump's election agenda in state legislatures
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6:07President Trump has held up election security as a major issue, but while Congress is considering new voting laws before this year's midterms, elections are primarily run by states.By WBUR & NPR
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People with hearing loss now have more options to navigate the world around them. Captioning glasses, equipped with microphones, caption human speech and display it on the lenses.By WBUR & NPR
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro captured
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6:07As deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife appear in a federal courtroom in New York City on Monday, questions about who is governing Venezuela in his absence remain.By WBUR & NPR
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Maps show how Boston's geography made it a powder keg for revolutionary ideas
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6:14The exhibit features more than a dozen maps of Boston, New England and North America made before, during and after the American Revolution. They tell the story of how Boston and its landscape made the region a powder keg for revolutionary ideas.By WBUR
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Rep. Auchincloss: Congressional Republicans 'sleepwalking' into war in Latin America
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4:36Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat and Marine Veteran, says Republican leaders in Congress are doing too little to rein in President Trump's war powers.By WBUR
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Boston journalist from Venezuela shares local reaction to U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro
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3:25Javier Marin, founder of Boston's Spanish-language newspaper El Planeta, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about the community's response.By WBUR
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Full Broadcast - January 5 at 1:47 PM ET
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2:29:59A weekday evening wrap-up of both national and local news stories.By WBUR
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A weekday evening wrap-up of both national and local news stories.By WBUR
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Why are headlights brighter than they used to be?
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34:13If you feel like car headlights have gotten too bright, you’re not alone. The National Highway Traffic Administration receives more consumer complaints about headlight brightness than any other topic. How did this happen? And can we fix it? ***Thank you for listening. Help power On Point by making a donation here: www.wbur.org/giveonpoint…
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Trump threatens intervention as deadly protests rock Iran
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21:44Protests in Iran have stretched on for six days, sparked by rising prices and the collapse of the country’s currency, the rial. Johns Hopkins University professor Vali Nasr joins us. And, Israel will soon ban more than three dozen aid organizations operating in Gaza. The American Friends Service Committee is one of those groups. AFSC's Kerri Kenned…
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