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

Consider adding us to your weekly schedule; we post regular broadcast hours for public radio Friday afternoons.

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

Ask us to make your station a custom promo! Contact us at info@radioopensource.org.

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In Search of Monsters: The Rise and Fall of American Empire 
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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Open Source Shorts and Podcasts 
30 Pieces

Everything but the broadcast hours.

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Open Source with Christopher Lydon 
467 Pieces

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

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Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov 
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

Reviving the King
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Martin Luther King Jr. comes to seem larger in his absence these last 50 years, himself a cosmos, in Walt Whitman speak, containing multitudes—and ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUSU, KJZZ, WKMS, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Books Not Bars
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The case for prison education is alive again, in the land of mass incarceration, the case for reimagining prisons as colleges and universities of l...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KALW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The World of Wakanda
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend; already it seems that commercial success is lik...

Bought by WLPR , KALW, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Call Me André Aciman
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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“Call me by your name,” the lovers say, “and I’ll call you by mine.” In the movie running strong for Oscar honors, the breathless word play is all ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Struggle for Syria’s Future
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Syrian war is not over, meaning the war of the Assad regime to crush large swaths of its population.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KALW, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Algorithmic Age
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Consider the algorithm—the snippets of computer code which all too often seem to stand in for higher authority in our secular age, a sort of god.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KALW, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The State of Disunion
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Despite what the president might say—the state of the union is: “divided,” “mixed,” “fractured,” and maybe “headed towards oblivion.”

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Fog of Vietnam
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re beginning our series of 50th anniversary programs this week with one of the great shocks of 1968: the Tet Offensive.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Gimme Shelter
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In cities across the country, working and middle-class Americans are struggling to keep their homes, pay their rent, and fight off eviction and for...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Inconsistent Truth
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The election of Donald Trump supposedly ushered in a new era of “fake news” and “post-truth” politics. Democracy would die in darkness, we were tol...

Bought by KUNM, KUAF Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

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