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An American conversation with global attitude — on the arts, humanities, and global affairs — with your host, Christopher Lydon.

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For shorter stand-alone radio stories and podcasts: check out our series "Open Source Shorts."

Full-length conversations are also available via podcast or at radioopensource.org

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Series

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22 Pieces

Inspired by John Quincy Adams’s admonition that America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” this limited-series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft explores America’s role in the world across history in order to see a better way forward.

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30 Pieces

Everything but the broadcast hours.

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468 Pieces

An American conversation with global attitude - on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon.

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5 Pieces

“Reading Chekhov” is the name of this game – a podcast experiment with, by all accounts, the greatest short-story writer of them all, the medical doctor who was also the “Cherry Orchard” playwright, Anton Chekhov.


Pieces

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A conversation with Laurie Garrett about the coronavirus pandemic.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A conversation with Mark Blyth about the economics of the coronavirus era.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A conversation with Sylvia Poggiolli, John Ioannidis, David Jones, and Andrew Sullivan about coronavirus.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, KMXT, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A conversation with Arthur Kleinman, Megan Murray, and David Jones about coronavirus.

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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A conversation with Frank Snowden, Nahid Bhadelia, Kyle Harper, and Jamie Heywood about the novel coronavirus.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A conversation with Anand Giridharadas, Ralph Nader, and Alex Gourevitch about establishment reactions to democratic socialism.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A conversation with Dr. Arthur Kleinman about personal and medical lessons learned from care.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMXT, KBBI Alaska, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Conversations with Will Power, Kerri Greenidge, Brandon Terry, and Rodnell Collins about Malcolm X.

Bought by WRIR, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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A visit to New Hampshire during primary season and a conversation with Jeff Sharlet.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBBI Alaska, KMXT, KALW and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A conversation with Andrew Bacevich about U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War.

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6