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Boston Listeners, Join Tom Live With A Public Conversation Of Hope & Healing

April 24, 2013

Join Tom tonight as he talks with community and civic leaders on Boston after the bombings.

Peter Cooper And Thomm Jutz Perform At On Point Nashville

April 10, 2013
Thomm Jutz and Peter Cooper perform at On Point Nashville. (Molly Nicholas)

On Point Live in Nashville featured — in addition to our great discussion on Obamacare — a terrific musical performance by singer/songwriters Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz. Take a listen to the audio here.

David Steele Reviews ’42′

April 10, 2013

Sports writer and friend of On Point David Steele — who joined us for our show on “42,” the new film about Jackie Robinson — just wrote a great piece on the film over on AOL Sporting News, incorporating the insight he got from the discussion with writer-director Brian Helgeland on our show.

Rep. Louise Slaughter On Antibiotics, Meat And Superbugs

April 4, 2013

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) set the tone right out of the gate in our hour on meat and antibiotics, saying Americans should be much more alarmed than they are.

Ken Levine at On Point

April 2, 2013

Ken Levine, Irrational Games creative director and the man behind the BioShock series visited On Point for our show on BioShock Infinite today.

Questions For Nashville

March 22, 2013
The Nashville, Tenn. downtown area and the Cumberland River are shown on Sept. 27, 2011. (AP)

On Point is headed to Nashville on March 29 to tape the show before a live audience with public radio’s WPLN. We’re excited! The topic is implementing the Affordable Care Act – “Obamacare” – and we would love your questions to put to our Nashville panel….

Tom, On Point, Profiled

February 20, 2013

Get the back scene story on how On Point comes together, and the host at the heart of it all in this new magazine profile.

‘Today’ Visits On Point

February 14, 2013
A crew from "Today" films Tom and guest Kelly Beatty. (Jesse Costa for WBUR)

The ‘Today’ show is visiting Boston, and they sent a crew — including NBC’s Ron Mott — to film a bit of Tom and the process of putting together On Point.

Lawrence Lessig On Aaron Swartz

January 14, 2013

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig spoke to us about the death of internet activist Aaron Swartz and what he stood for.

More On Point Music Goodness

January 11, 2013

Subscribe to the “Ultimate On Point Playlist” on Spotify and we’ll keep it up-to-date with all the music we play on the show. It’s a short playlist now, but will soon be mighty.

On Point Your Playlist

January 9, 2013

We put together a Spotify playlist of the music we played on our show on new music for 2013.

Palindromes For Santa And The Apocalypse

December 20, 2012

Palindromist Barry Duncan has sent us two palindromes: one about the Mayan apocalypse, and the other about Santa Claus. Enjoy!

The 8 Best Cookbooks Of 2012

December 17, 2012
(Here & Now/Kathy Gunst)

Just when H&N resident chef Kathy Gunst thought there couldn’t possibly be anything new left to say about the culinary world, along came a whole slew of great cookbooks.

Essay: School Shootings In America

December 17, 2012

There have been 13 mass shootings in schools since 1997. Many of them are not widely remembered, and don’t resonate the way the words “Columbine” and now “Newtown” do.

Ai Weiwei Rescheduled

December 17, 2012

An update for all you Ai Weiwei lovers — he is rescheduled and will be talking to us on January 10th.

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