WBUR Up Next

We focus on the present and future of Boston's innovation economy with the Boston Globe's Scott Kirsner.

Plus, we take listener calls with Jewish, Catholic and Muslim faith leaders.

Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch joins us to talk about Governor Baker's reopening plan, yet another unplanned gas release from the Weymouth compressor, and the ongoing debate over MBTA service levels.

We take listener calls with members of the Jewish, Catholic and Muslim faith communities.

Plus, we answer your questions about vaccines and variants in another edition of "Ask The Docs," and speak with the director of PBS's "Hemingway," and the Hemingway scholar at the JFK Presidential Library who consulted on the documentary.

The rich store of Hemingway's handwritten letters, typed manuscript drafts, photos, and scraps of his intellectual life at the JFK Presidential Library helped directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tell a newer, more nuanced story about the author.

We take listener questions with Dr. Cassandra Pierre and Dr. Philip Landrigan.

As part of our ongoing series of interviews about life during the pandemic, we speak with Jessie Stettin, a "Big" for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts.

How do we make sense of these competing milestones? BU's Dr. Davidson Hamer helps us out.

Sometimes, events far away have such deep repercussions, or hit us in such a personal way, that they feel like they are happening to us.