About
The Common is Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.
Every week on Thursday mornings, host Darryl C. Murphy will bring you local news and culture stories, delivered and defined by diverse voices.
The podcast highlights reporting from WBUR’s excellent newsroom, features frank in-depth conversations with newsmakers, and brings original reporting and sound from the field.
In each episode, you can expect to hear the fun and the serious stories from arts and culture, music, movies, food, housing and transportation, climate change to the nitty gritty of how we do the work here as journalists.
Talk to us on Instagram at @WBURTheCommon.
Meet the host:
Darryl C. Murphy is the host of WBUR's weekly news and culture podcast, The Common. Before moving to the host’s chair, he was a reporter in the newsroom covering business and transportation.
Darryl came to WBUR from Philadelphia where he covered transportation and mobility for WHYY, the local NPR station there. Prior to that, he got his start at the Philadelphia Public School Notebook covering K-12 education.
Darryl has a bachelor's degree in English from Temple University. In his free time, he enjoys baking and listening to vinyl.