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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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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

Baldwin in the 21st Century
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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His words have become rallying cries for a rising generation.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM, KMXT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Lessons from Nixonland
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Welcome back to Nixonland: After four decades, the Oval Office is once again the seat of empire, occupied by a paranoid pilot hellbent on an unremi...

Bought by WEZU, KUOW, KUNM, KJZZ, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
JFK Turns 100
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In John F. Kennedy’s hundredth birthday spring, we’re looking at a number of portraits of the president, including the painter Jamie Wyeth's famous...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The ‘Pivot to Asia’ Continued
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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On the threshold of trouble in Asia, have a look around the Western Pacific and especially back at US history there.

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


  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Building the People’s Party
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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100 days of Donald Trump in the White House, 100 days of Democrats in the wilderness, 100 dumbfounded days of dismay at the New York Times, 100 day...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KRCB 104.9, WLPR , and KALW


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Robert Lowell and the Poetry of a Suffering Mind
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Robert Lowell was the last of his kind: a New England aristocrat of Olympian thunder and civic weight, dead-set from boyhood on artistic greatness,...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KALW


  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Great American Medicine Show
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Barack out of the White House, Obamacare now looks something like a 7-year-old orphan: the unwanted child of yesterday’s Washington; a needy p...

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


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
American (De)generations
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week on Open Source, Christopher Lydon and others ask: Is American history a cyclical thing; a series of concentric circles endlessly repeating?

Bought by WLPR , WMUU-LP, and KALW


  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Russian Riddle
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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For many Americans, Russia once more is the name of the riddle: a mystery wrapped in an enigma that may or may not be deciphered in an FBI investig...

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The American Experiment
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon interviews professors Roberto Unger and Cornel West regarding the current American condition on this episode of Open Source.

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4

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