Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Tuesday, August 18, 2026 @GBHNews
Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Tuesday, August 18, 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: We’ll speak with Paul Heslop, the program manager for mine action at the United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine, Dan Primack, Axios business editor, and we’ll hear from CNN’s John King. 

Today on The Curiosity Desk: MIT researcher and author Amos Winter on the challenges of desalination. GBH's Gal Tziperman Lotan, back with Four Things to Know. Mass. General Brigham’s Dr. Ashwini Nadkarni explains why we can still experience seasonal affective disorder in the summertime.

Today on The Culture Show: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo joins us to talk about his new novel, Under the Falls and his event at the Cambridge Public Library tonight; then James Beard Award-winning chef Barbara Lynch joins us after hosting a pair of intimate dinners at her Manchester-by-the-Sea studio; and Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston , is back for another episode of AI: Actual Intelligence.

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Tuesday, August 18, 2026

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