BPR Full Show: Marathon Monday

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We begin the show by asking listeners whether they would consider cheating on their taxes.

Bill Evans discusses how security at the Boston Marathon changed in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. He also talks about his love of running, and his experiences running in the Boston Marathon. Marathoner and former Boston police commissioner Bill Evans is now the police chief at Boston College. 

Corby Kummer talks about the death of the non-profit food news publication The Counter, and a new Wollaston Beach restaurant promoting vegan seafood. Kummer is the executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Bobbi Gibb reflects on her experience as the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon, and the last 50 years of women running in the race. Gibb was the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon in 1966.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III share their thoughts on the Vatican inviting both a Russian woman and a Ukrainian woman to carry the cross at Rome’s Via Crucis, and the conservatives legislating the erasure of trans and queer people. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together they host the “All Rev’d Up” podcast.

We then ask listeners whether they loved – or loved to hate – Peeps.

Des Linden joined us last week to talk about her 2018 Boston Marathon win as the first American woman to win the marathon in 33 years. Linden is a long-distance runner, a two-time Olympian, and the 2018 winner of the Boston Marathon in the women’s category.