The Common

Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.

The Common is a news podcast hosted by WBUR, with 488 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

WBUR hosts The Common, a news show with 488 episodes published.

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  The Common

  Summer is here, and so are cicadas

  May 29, 202511 minS0

  <p>From mid-May to early June, a brood of periodical cicadas (Brood XIV) are emerging for the first time in 17 years.</p> <p>Today on The Common, WBUR Digital News Producer Katie Cole tells us everything we need to know about these noisy summer insects, and what makes this particular brood special.</p> <p>Also, we end with a note from Host Darryl C. Murphy about the conclusion of The Common.</p> <p>Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.</p>

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  The Common

  Summer is here, and so are cicadas

  May 29, 202511 min

  From mid-May to early June, a brood of periodical cicadas (Brood XIV) are emerging for the first time in 17 years. Today on The Common , WBUR Digital News Producer Katie Cole tells us everything we need to know about these noisy summer insects, and what makes this particular brood special. Also, we end with a note from Host Darryl C. Murphy about the conclusion of The Common. Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.

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  Episode #488

  From the newsroom: Lupe Fiasco makes music out of sculpture

  May 15, 20256 minS0

  <p>This week Team Common is bringing you a story from WBUR arts and culture reporter Amelia Mason. It's a story about one of hip-hop's greatest wordsmiths Lupe Fiasco.</p> <p>Lupe, a visiting scholar at M.I.T., has been writing new music using the artwork on campus, and Amelia got the opportunity to talk to him about it.</p> <p>Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.</p>

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  Episode #488

  From the newsroom: Lupe Fiasco makes music out of sculpture

  May 15, 20256 min

  This week Team Common is bringing you a story from WBUR arts and culture reporter Amelia Mason. It's a story about one of hip-hop's greatest wordsmiths Lupe Fiasco. Lupe, a visiting scholar at M.I.T., has been writing new music using the artwork on campus, and Amelia got the opportunity to talk to him about it. Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.

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  The Common

  Talk a walk through Boston's LGBTQ+ history

  May 8, 202519 minS0

  <p>In February, references to the words 'transgender' and 'queer' were quietly purged from various National Parks Service websites. </p> <p>That includes pages dedicated to Boston’s many national parks. </p> <p>Among the resources that were taken down from Boston’s National Parks was an audio tour of Downtown and Beacon Hill titled “Their Dreams, Their Rights, and Their Love.”</p> <p>The tour was meant to show how Boston’s LGBTQ+ community has lived and thrived despite oppression and erasure. The tour still exists on the History Project's website, where it was posted after it was removed from the Na...

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