Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, June 18, 2026 @GBHNews
Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, June 18, 2026  @GBHNews
Uploaded June 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: Political commentator Chuck Todd, and former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral, Boston Globe Love Letter’s columnist Meredith Goldstein, and we’ll check back in with Brendan Patrick Hughes on his recent Peabody Award. 

Today on The Curiosity Desk: Joan Donovan from the Critical Internet Studies Institute on implications of A.I. deepfake videos. Neuroscientists Bob Datta and David Brann explain their research mapping out how our brains register smell. Martha Barnette & Grant Barrett from A Way With Words to answer some listener-submitted curiosity questions.

Today on The Culture Show: Noelle Trent, President and CEO of the Museum of African American History, joins us to talk about their Juneteenth programing; Mary Grant is back for AI: Actual Intelligence, reflecting on a commencement season shaped by controversy, politics and the question of what graduates need to hear right now; and Catherine T. Morris of BAMS Fest joins us to talk about MOMENTUM, a five-day celebration of Black art, music, culture and enterprise across Greater Boston. She’s joined by Isaiah Thelwell of Greater Brockton Young Professionals, one of the partners bringing MOMENTUM to Brockton through Fuller After Dark.

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, June 18, 2026

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