BPR Full Show: Welcome to the Working Week
Publisher |
WGBH
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Feb 18, 2022
Episode Duration |
02:41:01

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We open the show by asking listeners about their anxiety over climate change.

Interim DA Kevin Hayden discusses his intention to revisit the conviction of Charles Bogues in the 1993 murder of Louis Chéry, and his agenda as interim DA. Hayden is the interim District Attorney for Suffolk County, and he’s running for election for a full term as DA this fall.

Jared Bowen talks about the “Immersive Frida Kahlo” exhibit in Boston, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s recent 2022 Moby-Dick Marathon. Bowen is GBH’s executive arts editor and the host of Open Studio.

Andy Ihnatko updates us on the latest tech headlines, focusing on China’s use of bots and fake Twitter accounts to push against controversy ahead of the Olympic games. Ihnatko is a tech writer and blogger, posting at Ihnatko.com.

Callie Crossley discusses Prince Andrew’s settlement with Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, and the dismissal of Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. Crossley hosts GBH’s Under the Radar and Basic Black.

Sue O’Connell talks about a judge ordering former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr., to sit for deposition in the New York investigation into his family business' financial statements. 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 then ask listeners whether they’d take a four-day work week, if they had the choice.

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