Full Broadcast 7/27/18

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, June 27th, 2018.

With construction booming, illuminated cranes becoming a substitute for public art and a glut of high rises creating concrete canyons, rents are getting higher, generations of families and small businesses are getting priced out of the city and neighborhoods are fighting off gentrification in a fight for their souls. We opened the lines to ask you: is this happening where you live?

Then, the food industry is going loco for Necco workers who have been laid off. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung explains.

Did Fox And Friends get outfoxed by local lawmaker Barbara L’Italien? Beat the Press host Emily Rooney joins us for that and more.

In the hit musical Hamilton, Aaron Burr makes a big point about how he’s going to “wait for it.” Now Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox are now in a bidding war to make Hamilton a movie… are you willing to “wait for it?” Instead of paying up to a thousand dollars to see it, it could cost you $12. We opened the lines to ask you: does seeing the real thing in real time matter?

Then, another edition of Better Call Sean. If you’ve been scammed, ripped off or bamboozled, Boston Globe’s Sean Murphy is on it. He’s a Boston Globe reporter and the man behind The Fine Print column, which takes on some of the toughest consumer predicaments and solves them. He joins us to talk through his latest cases.

Under The Radar host Callie Crossley is here to talk about her area of expertise, Hamilton and Omarosa.

Then we’re floating head first into a gravity-defying news quiz with the folks behind the Museum of Science’s SPACE exhibit.