Lydon McGrath Productions

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  • Location: Cambridge, US

Host: Christopher Lydon

Christopher has been a distinctive voice in print, television and radio journalism for more than 30 years. In the 70s he covered the McGovern/Humphrey, Reagan/Carter presidential campaigns for the New York Times Washington Bureau. In the 80s he anchored public television news on WGBH Boston. In the 90s he founded "The Connection" on WBUR Boston and brought it to 75 public stations around the country. In Jamaica, West Africa and Southeast Asia in the past year he collected sounds, voices and ideas for the "The Whole Wide World with Christopher Lydon".

Executive Producer: Mary McGrath

Mary has worked in radio and television for almost 20 years. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as a producer for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in New York City. She coordinated international news coverage for the Christian Science Monitor's start-up international news program "World Monitor" during the revolutions in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She then co-founded "The Connection" on WBUR in Boston with host Christopher Lydon.

Series


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William F. Buckley examines the Bush GOP

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 18:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Novelist Norman Mailer talks politics on the eve of the Republican Convention

Bought by PRX, WUAL, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This is a pilot (NOT FOR BROADCAST) of an upcoming series on the Internet transformation of politics and the new rules of "the making of the presid...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2004
  • Length: 41:20
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This is hour 5 of The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on globalization

Bought by PRX to iTunes, WPSU, KCPW Salt Lake City, and prpdstation


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
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This is hour 4 of The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on globalization

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This is hour 2 of The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on globalization

  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
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This is hour 3 from The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on Globalization

Bought by WSKG, WFIU, and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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This is hour 1 from The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on Globalization

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1