Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Tuesday, November 3, 2026

00:00 – Boston Public Radio 11am 2:00:00 – The Curiosity Desk 1pm 3:00:00 – The Culture Show 2 pm Today on Boston Public Radio: It's an Election Day special, featuring major statewide candidates including gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue, Gov. Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, GOP AG candidate Michael Walsh, GOP Treasurer candidate Elizabeth Dionne, GOP senate candidate John Deaton, and more. We’ll also hear from Secretary of State Bill Galvin on how voting is going. Plus, CNN’s John King on national races, and Tufts’ Evan Horowitz on the state ballot questions. Today on The Curiosity Desk: We open with a quick cross-Commonwealth Election Day check-in with GBH News’ Diane Adame in Brighton, and NEPM’s Phillip Whittemore-Bishop in Springfield. It’s another round of Four Things To Know with Gal Tziperman Lotan from the GBH Daily newsletter. We’re talking with Commonwealth Beacon reporter Chris Lisinksi about his coverage of a competition problem in Massachusetts, which beats out only Rhode Island in the percentage of uncontested races for elected office. We end with Reed Gochberg from Boston Athenaeum talking about how women suffragists spread their message through a community cookbook. Today on The Culture Show: Grammy-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo joins us to talk about his new book, Countertenor, and his unconventional life and career in opera; then, British theatre director Emma Rice joins us to discuss her adaptation of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, coming to the Huntington in January; and saxophonist Merryl Goldberg recounts how she and three fellow Boston musicians outwitted the KGB by hiding coded messages in their sheet music during a 1985 mission to the Soviet Union. It’s the subject of her new book, Notes of Deception. Watch America's Awesome Kids on the PBS Kids App or YouTube:    / @americasawesomekids   Support GBH and help shape a future where facts matter, stories unite us, and everyone has access to quality media. Join us. Fund the Future: https://bit.ly/FundtheFutureYT