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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

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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

What Money Can't Buy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seven years after the credit crunch, we know the markets have rebounded. Executive pay is back up; the public sector’s still shrinking relatively a...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Rebirth of a Nation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Both our guests Eric Foner and Heather Cox Richardson want to shout it from the rooftops: the little-known history of Reconstruction is where the s...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMXT, KPIP-LP, and WRPI


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 4
TPP on Trial
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Democrats’ revolt against President Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership has everything to do with the “giant sucking sound” of job loss echoing o...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Knausgaard: The New Novel Thing
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is sweeping the world in six volumes and 3,600 pages. It’s the novelized memory of a mostly ordinary Scandinavian...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Our Worst War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky, and Christian Appy on the legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Can China Lead
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The People’s Republic has arrived and is applying for co-trusteeship of the globe. We got a good look at the co-trustee, China’s enigmatic presiden...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Barney Frank: Talker of the House
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Barney Frank’s new memoir, Frank, reflects on U.S. politics and culture over 50 years, 1965 to 2015. We’re putting our podcast conversation here in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 43:01
  • Purchases: 1
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
J.S. Bach’s Bitter-Sweet Passion
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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From the great Bach’s hand, two masterpieces of church theater survive. Both tell the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, one from the gospel of Matthe...

Bought by 'The Sea', WNMU-FM, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
Michael Lewis's Age of Money
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Michael Lewis, the great tale-spinner in the Second Gilded Age in America, says that, after the latest financial crisis, "dissatisfaction is homele...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 3

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