Behind the scenes of On Point

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Host Meghna Chakrabarti and executive producer Jonathan Dyer offer a behind-the-scenes look into how On Point is produced. Recorded in front of a live audience at WBUR CitySpace.

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0:00.0	Support for WBUR comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
0:09.0	MathWorks, accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science. Learn more at mathworks.com.
0:16.3	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken? A podcast from the Mayrotra Institute at B.U.
0:22.5	Questrum School of Business that asks the thorny questions necessary for this moment.
0:27.8	Follow Is Business Broken and stay tuned for new episodes this fall.
0:32.8	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:37.8	Thank you. W.R Podcasts, Boston. Hi there, Megna here with a bonus episode for you this weekend.
0:45.9	Behind the scenes of On Point.
0:48.2	We're bringing you a recording of a recent event for WBUR members that we put on at WBUR
0:53.7	City Space Event Ven venue in Boston.
0:56.6	I was joined on stage by On Point Executive Producer Jonathan Dyer, and we shared some insights
1:02.2	into how the show gets made and we answered some audience questions.
1:06.6	It was a pretty fun time, and we thought you might enjoy it too.
1:09.6	Jonathan got us going.
1:27.7	When people find out what I do for work, they always say, isn't McNam amazing? I'm like, yes, she actually is. And then it's like, how do you come up with those shows? So I thought what we do is spend a bit of time talking about actually a couple of series that we did, one last year, one this they came about and so the first series that we could talk about uh we did last year we called it
1:33.6	elements of energy i'll tell you why we came up with our title in a couple of minutes uh it was
1:39.2	really about the minerals essential as we inevitably move away from fossil fuels. And again, this audio of the
1:46.8	battery here, it's from last year and it's very obviously from last year.
1:53.7	I've signed a historic piece of legislation here in the United States that includes the biggest,
1:58.6	most important climate commitment we have ever made in the history of our country.
2:02.6	President Biden set the goal, cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030.
2:08.6	So let this be the moment we find within ourselves the will to unlock a resilient, sustainable, clean energy economy to preserve our planet.
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