Latest Wgbh Podcast Episodes
A Mashpee Wampanoag youth group works to protect a beloved fish
The Local Food Report - April 25, 2024 12:31 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Local Food Report can be heard every Thursday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. From farmers' markets to backyard gardens, wild forage to home kitchen recipes, the Local Food Report explores the Cape, Islands, and South Coast to fi...
Making bagels in the dawn kitchen
The Local Food Report - April 18, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThere aren’t many things that will get me out of bed at 5:30 in the morning. But bagels—or really just the prospect of learning how to make them—is one. Recently, I stood in Wellfleet’s Bagel Hound with owner Ellery Althaus, while the windows were still dark, staring a pile of dough.
Black garlic, a popular choice for home cooks and chefs
The Local Food Report - April 11, 2024 12:09 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBeau Valtz is standing in his Wellfleet kitchen in front of a giant pile of fresh garlic.He's wrapping heads of garlic tightly in tin foil.
Gwyneth Hughes, Mr Bates vs The Post Office | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - April 08, 2024 00:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsFor writer Gwyneth Hughes, Mr Bates vs The Post Office is the perfect culmination of her years of experience as a journalist, documentarian, and dramatist. This week, Gwyneth joins us to discuss how she adapted this true story for the screen, and the real-life impact of this drama serie...
Four trout varieties that are stocked in local waters
The Local Food Report - April 04, 2024 10:38 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRecently I made a visit to the Sandwich fish hatchery. That’s where the state raises trout for stocking in local ponds and rivers and I spoke with Mike Clark who helps breed four different trout varieties.
Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - April 01, 2024 00:40 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Nolly. Actor Helena Bonham Carter enjoys playing complex, dynamic roles. From Princess Margaret to Bellatrix Lestrange, she never shies away from complicated characters. This week, we talked with Helena about playing the trailblazing Noele Go...
One woman’s story of starting a food truck
The Local Food Report - March 28, 2024 12:18 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Local Food Report can be heard every Thursday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. From farmers' markets to backyard gardens, wild forage to home kitchen recipes, the Local Food Report explores the Cape, Islands, and South Coast to fi...
Blair Mowat, Nolly | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - March 25, 2024 00:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Nolly. Composer Blair Mowat has written music for a long list of film and TV productions, including Class, After The Flood, and recently, Russell T. Davies’ bittersweet love letter to the Queen of the Midlands, Nolly. This week, we talked wit...
A primer on Cape Cod clams
The Local Food Report - March 21, 2024 11:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA primer on Cape Cod clams—local species and how to handle each one in the kitchen.
Victor Levin, Alice & Jack | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - March 18, 2024 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Alice & Jack. For Alice & Jack writer and creator Victor Levin, love is a messy business worth fighting for. It often bypasses the rules of reason and logic and throws all kinds of emotional curve balls. But in the end, it’s the ...
Boeing's Fatal Flaw (2024)
FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS - March 15, 2024 20:22 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratingsAs new questions arise about Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet, FRONTLINE and The New York Times update an award-winning investigation into the design, oversight and production of a plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.
Pruning wild blueberries and our relationship with the natural world
The Local Food Report - March 07, 2024 12:32 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week, a young man in Truro on pruning wild blueberries and our relationship with the natural world.
Stuart Martin Says Goodbye, Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - February 29, 2024 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains significant spoilers for Season 4 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke. For four seasons, we’ve watched Eliza Scarlet and William Wellington work together to solve a seemingly endless stream of serpentine mysteries in Victorian era London. But by the fourth episo...
Skate 101: Three local cooks share their favorite recipes
The Local Food Report - February 29, 2024 13:13 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor a long time, skate has been considered trash fish. But with local groundfish like haddock and cod increasingly off the menu, home cooks and local chefs are turning more and more to this tasty shark relative.
Wartime Rations and Black Markets, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - February 26, 2024 01:40 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsDr. Mark Roodhouse, historical consultant for All Creatures Great & Small, and lecturer in History at the University of York, joins us to discuss his role on the show, and the real-life history behind rationing and black markets in World War II-era Britain.
Turnip latkes from a chef in Orleans
The Local Food Report - February 22, 2024 11:20 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIt’s that time of year again—we’re deep into storage vegetable season and I’m looking for recipe inspiration.
Nicholas Ralph, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - February 19, 2024 01:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 7 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4. Lead actor Nicholas Ralph returns to the podcast to reflect on Season Four of All Creatures Great and Small, and how his character, James Herriot, learned to embrace the ever-present uncer...
Rachael New & Ben Edwards, Episode 6 Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - February 12, 2024 00:40 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4. Writers Rachael New and Ben Edwards are back to wrap up Season Four of Miss Scarlet and The Duke. At the end of this season, Eliza steps out of the shadows cast by her father, Nash, and the Du...
James Anthony-Rose, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - February 05, 2024 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 5 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4. Actor James Anthony-Rose joins All Creatures Great and Small this season as new veterinarian Richard Carmody. With Tristan away and James leaving for military training, there’s a lot of pr...
A farmer goes into the schools on the Outer Cape
The Local Food Report - February 01, 2024 12:54 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAbout ten years ago when farmer Stephanie Rein’s kids were in elementary school in Truro, she noticed something about local garden-based education.
Stuart Martin, Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - January 29, 2024 00:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4. It’s been a trying season for actor Stuart Martin’s ‘Duke’. He’s been pushed past the point of exhaustion, shot in the arm, in a coma, and now contends with rest and recovery. But as we see a m...
Adapting Cape Cod menus to changes in local fisheries
The Local Food Report - January 25, 2024 12:20 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on the Local Food Report, adapting Cape Cod menus to changes in local fisheries.
Inside the Uvalde Response
FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratingsDrawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps. The documentary delves into the lessons learned and the lingering trauma of that day.
Rachael New & Ben Edwards, Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - January 22, 2024 00:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4. In episode 3 of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, writers and spouses Rachael New and Ben Edwards try something new: a flashback episode. We travel back in time to the world of young Eliza and Willia...
A chef gets creative with school lunch
The Local Food Report - January 18, 2024 12:58 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week on the Local Food Report, a chef gets creative with school lunch.
The Discord Leaks
FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratingsAn investigation into how a young Air National Guardsman allegedly leaked classified documents on the Discord chat platform. With The Washington Post, FRONTLINE examines Jack Teixeira’s alleged leak of national security secrets, why he wasn’t stopped and the role of platforms like Discord.
Neve McIntosh, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - January 15, 2024 01:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 2 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4. Actor Neve McIntosh joins All Creatures Great and Small this season as the organized and rigid Miss Harbottle. Bringing order to chaos is her speciality, and that’s what she plans to do at ...
A community farming project makes an impact in Orleans
The Local Food Report - January 11, 2024 11:56 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn the 1960s, Putnam Farm was home to 14 acres of thriving cropland.
Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza
FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS - January 09, 2024 22:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratingsAs the war in Gaza continues with devastating consequences, a major 90-minute documentary offers a sweeping examination of the critical moments leading up to this crisis over the course of the past three decades, and the pivotal role of a central player: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
Jamie Crichton, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio
MASTERPIECE Studio - January 08, 2024 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode 1 of All Creatures Great and Small Season 4. New beginnings are afoot as Jamie Crichton takes over as lead writer for the fourth season of All Creatures Great and Small. With Tristan away and the war encroaching, things aren’t quite t...