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April 6, 2026
By Boston Public Radio
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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Monday April 6, 2026
Today on Boston Public Radio: Ricardo Pierre-Louis and Rose Staram, about their luck getting city contracts. MIT economist Jon Gruber on the long-term economic impacts of a War in Iran. Mitchell Garabedian, renowned Catholic Sex scandal victims’ attorney and advocate, joins with a survivor of the Catholic Sex Scandal, Dr. Herbert Brennan, to discuss a new report out of Rhode Island. GBH’s Jared Bowen on arts and culture news.
Today on The Curiosity Desk: Boston influencer Maddie GW and creator economy expert Lia Haberman pull back the curtain on how creators make a living. Edgar talks with Nina Sankovitch about her book on America’s most radical 18th-century revolutionary. Plus, Harvard’s John Holdren explains what makes enriched uranium so special. T
oday on The Culture Show: The former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino joins us to talk about her recent essay for Air Mail, recounting her 1982 interview with Ali Khamenei and what it reveals now about Iran, power, and history; then, Tony Award-winning actor Matt Doyle joins us to discuss When Playwrights Kill, now at the Huntington through April 18; and playwright Adam Rapp joins us to talk about writing the book for The Outsiders, the Tony Award-winning musical now at Citizens Opera House through April 12 by way of Broadway in Boston.