Is Friday afternoon too early for a party? Not for us –– so you're invited to our BPL Studios, where The Curiosity Desk will be broadcasting LIVE every Friday from 1-2pm along with Boston Public Radio and The Culture Show!
3 favs in 1 spot. Listen at the BPL or on @gbhnews.bsky.social's YouTube ⬇️
Jeopardy clue on March 31, 2026: "Some donors to this organization get a "Passport" to a library that includes "NOVA" & "ANTIQUES ROADSHOW"
"'TV Guidance' for $200 please, Ken."
A black Jeep with a Bob Ross spare tire cover is parked. Photo courtesy: Chris Rattey/GBH.
Happiest little spare on planet Earth.
A black Jeep with a Bob Ross spare tire cover is parked. Photo courtesy: Chris Rattey/GBH.
Happiest little spare on planet Earth.
“We live in a world now where we’re sort of post-fact, post-truth, and I don’t accept that. And I think public broadcasting doesn’t accept that and most people out there aren’t going to say the sky is green when it’s blue.”
— Ken Burns
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Catch Ken Burns’s full interview with host Jared Bowen of @gbhnews.bsky.social’s The Culture Show here: www.youtube.com/live/iYrju5V...
Burns is the EP for “Henry David Thoreau,” a new film that tells the deeply human life of a complex, influential and deeply flawed figure who helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance.
The three-part PBS docuseries premieres 3/30 & 3/31 at 9pm on GBH-2 + the PBS app.
“We live in a world now where we’re sort of post-fact, post-truth, and I don’t accept that. And I think public broadcasting doesn’t accept that and most people out there aren’t going to say the sky is green when it’s blue.”
— Ken Burns
Ken's full segment on BPR!
Apologies for the tech issues @trainsbikesbus.bsky.social!
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Thanks for watching!
Today is:
Mister Rogers' birthday ✅
Big Bird's birthday ✅
The first day of spring ✅
What a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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O'Neill to @gbhnews.bsky.social: "What has kept me so engaged and made me love the sport, I always say, is the combination of the physical and the mental — the strategic piece, and particularly the strategic angle, trying to think through an end, think through a shot, really plan out a game."
Sean O'Neill trains with the U.S. wheelchair curling team ahead of the Milan Cortina Paralympics in March. Photo courtesy: Meghan Smith/GBH News.
Similar to able-bodied curling, wheelchair curling players slide stones into what is called a "house" across the ice, aiming to get as close to the center of the target as possible.
The biggest difference? There is no sweeping. Instead, wheelchair curlers throw using a delivery stick.
Sean O'Neill training with Team USA at Cape Cod Curling Club on Jan. 24, 2026. Photo courtesy: Meghan Smith/GBH News.
We're not going to tell you who to root for at this month's Milano Cortina Paralympics... but we kind of are. Meet Sean O'Neill. The Falmouth resident is one of seven athletes getting ready to represent the U.S. in wheelchair curling at this year's Games, which begin Friday.
Thank you, Paddy. 🙏
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Mirsky to @gbhnews.bsky.social: "I think about my children, my grandchildren, the children in Iran and children everywhere that deserve to have a future."
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Newton resident Susan Mirsky holds a sign that had been made by her late mother when she was in her 90s, at a rally against US and Israeli military strikes on Iran. Photo courtesy: Liz Neisloss/GBH News.
Holding a sign that had been made by her late mother in her 90s, Newton resident Susan Mirsky joined hundreds of protestors on the Boston Common this past weekend to condemn the joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday.
Trump launches US strikes against Iran with the goal of regime change. Iran has retaliated by launching missiles at Israel and a US naval base. https://bit.ly/4s8YsnU
New "Catching The Codfather" episodes release weekly on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcasts. A video version of the pod is also available on the @gbhnews.bsky.social YouTube channel! 🐟
"There are people who hate his guts and people who admire him. There are people who think he got everything he deserved and people who think he was wrongfully prosecuted."
READ: A below-the-docks Q&A with "Catching The Codfather" podcast host @iancoss.bsky.social!
(Illustration: Jesse Ledina/AndrogynArt.)
A Joanne and Fred Rogers in memoriam illustration. Photo courtesy: Jesse Ledina.
We lost the kindest neighbor on this day 23 years ago. Thanks for always keeping your door open, Fred. 🙏
Episodic images of Dragon Tales and Arthur are accompanied by the quote from Senior VP of PBS KIDS Sara DeWitt: "We didn't create media to keep kids watching. We created it to help kids grow."
Every parent should listen to the latest Big Little Feelings podcast with PBS KIDS Senior VP and GM Sara DeWitt.
Co-host Kristin Gallant: "It made me feel even stronger that we need to protect PBS KIDS at all costs."
Poster for Catching the Codfather
🐟As Somerville’s foremost elected podcast reviewer, I truly cannot believe how good the latest is from the team that brought us THE BIG DIG and SCRATCH AND WIN (secret history of the MA lottery): CATCHING THE CODFATHER. So friggin good @iancoss.bsky.social
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A graphic image of the purple GBH logo encircled by a pink heart is above the text: "First Valentine's Day post breakup? Us too." The image is featured on the GBH digital mural in Boston, Mass., on February 14, 2026.
The mural was in a Mass Pike kind of mood.
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