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BPR Full Show: Quiz day!
Publisher |
WGBH
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Feb 04, 2022
Episode Duration |
02:44:00

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We begin the show by asking listeners their thoughts on whether it’s time for workers to return to the office.

Shirley Leung argues that businesses need to bring workers back in person, and discusses self-driving cars doing poorly in Southie. Leung is a business columnist for the Boston Globe.

Billy Costa quizzes Jim and Margery on trivia questions, until they turn the tables and quiz Costa himself. Costa co-hosts Kiss 108’s Matty in the Morning,  Dining Playbook on NESN and the host of GBH’s High School Quiz Show – season 13 of which will premiere on GBH 2 tomorrow at 6 PM.

Andy Ihnatko weighs in on the Spotify controversy with Joe Rogan and Neil Young and other streaming options, and worries about the growing threat of deepfakes. Ihnatko is a tech writer and blogger, posting at Ihnatko.com.

Melinda Lopez and Maurice Emmanuel Parent preview their one-man show about an actor who begins working as a teacher. Emmanuel Parent is an actor and the star of the fabulous one-man show Mr. Parent and a teacher at Tufts. Lopez is a playwright, actress and the writer of Mr. Parent. She also teaches theater and playwriting at Boston University and Northeastern University, in addition to being the inaugural Mellon Foundation playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company.

Sue O'Connell talks about former CNN president Jeff Zucker’s ousting over a secret office relationship, and Whoopi Goldberg’s misinformed comments on the Holocaust that led to her suspension from the View. O’Connell is the co-publisher of Bay Windows and the South End News, as well as NECN's political commentator and explainer-in-chief.

We end the show by asking listeners their thoughts on office relationships following Zucker’s resignation from CNN.

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