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FAQs about WBUR Up Next:How many episodes does WBUR Up Next have?The podcast currently has 5,567 episodes available.
March 24, 2021How The Pandemic Has Tipped The Balance Between Work And MotherhoodWe take listener calls and talk with two working mothers about how their lives have been affected this past year....more20minPlay
March 24, 2021Jeff Immelt Unravels His Controversial Tenure At General ElectricPlus, Kim Janey is sworn in as Boston's first Black and first woman mayor....more48minPlay
March 23, 2021A New Mayor In BostonPlus, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins says she will review tens of thousands criminal cases tied to a mismanaged state drug lab....more49minPlay
March 23, 2021Supreme Court To Consider Reimposing Tsarnaev Death PenaltyThe Supreme Court says the justices will consider an appeal of the First Circuit's decision last summer to overturn Tsarnaev's death sentence....more8minPlay
March 23, 2021How Has The Pandemic Changed Our Relationships With Others, And Ourselves?We take listener calls and discuss how we're navigating relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members. We also take a look at how the pandemic has changed our relationship with ourselves....more28minPlay
March 23, 2021What A New Mayor Means For BostonFor the first time in almost two hundred years, Boston has a mayor that is not a white man. Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey is now acting Mayor of Boston, after former Mayor Marty Walsh was confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of Labor on Monday....more12minPlay
March 23, 2021DA Rollins Moves To Vacate Thousands More Convictions Related To Drug Lab ScandalSuffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins says her office will vacate up to tens of thousands more criminal convictions that were based on drug evidence tested at the now-closed Hinton lab....more9minPlay
March 22, 2021Theaters Are Open, But When Will Audiences Return?With Boston moving into the next phase of reopening, indoor theaters and performance venues can begin to open. But will they? Joining us is Catherine Peterson, the Executive Director of Arts Boston, to discuss when audiences will feel comfortable enjoying performances in-person....more9minPlay
March 22, 2021How Are The Atlanta Shootings Reverberating Among AAPIs In The Commonwealth?We take listener calls and talk about a year marked by a spike in anti-Asian American xenophobia, discrimination and hate....more20minPlay
March 22, 2021Phase 4, The "New Normal," Begins TodayPlus, reviving a 200-year-old abolitionist newspaper....more49minPlay
FAQs about WBUR Up Next:How many episodes does WBUR Up Next have?The podcast currently has 5,567 episodes available.