Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, August 20, 2026 @GBHNews
Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, August 20, 2026  @GBHNews
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
00:00 – Boston Public Radio 11am
2:00:00 – The Curiosity Desk 1pm
3:00:00 – The Culture Show 2 pm

Today on Boston Public Radio: The Guardian Columnist Margaret Sullivan, and former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral. We’ll speak with Matthew Miller, co-writer and producer of the new Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony.” Then we’ll listen back to Jim and Margery’s 2017 interview with Bourdain. 

Today on The Curiosity Desk: We’re interviewing Thursday's winner of the annual Massachusetts Tomato Contest. Then, misinformation researcher Joan Donovan returns for another round of The Glitch Report. We’ll also air a field piece from producer Hannah Loss, where Tufts Professor Justin Hollander tours Worcester and explains how an urban design researcher looks at a city.

Today on The Culture Show: Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Larkin McPhee discusses I’ll See You in My Dreams, her memoir about her brother and losing him to ALS; then Pedro Alonzo returns for “AI: Actual Intelligence” with dispatches from his recent trip to Oaxaca; and Melissa Errico joins us ahead of The Streisand Effect in Provincetown, her tribute to Barbra Streisand, with pianist Billy Stritch.


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