Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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

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

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467 Pieces

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Richard Powers: A Musical Theory of Everything
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Richard Powers is indulging us in a runaway riff on music, in a little room in the Boston Athenaeum, on the top of Beacon Hill, overlooking the Old...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 47:52
  • Purchases: 1
Activism in Memory of Aaron Swartz
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re trying also to locate Aaron Swartz as a landmark in the culture and the age.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Boston"
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Here’s how to read David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page door stop and masterpiece Infinite Jest: it’s a Boston novel the way Ulysses is a Dublin n...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
Derek Bok: The View from the Top
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

Bought by KVSC and KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 2
What's the Matter With College?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:23
Thomas Frank on What's the Matter With College (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Hacking Higher Ed
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Continuing our series on higher ed, we're hacking our way to a better model; call it New U. There won't be a football team or a building and ground...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 1
Reading Chekhov
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our “Reading Chekhov” series culminates in a full hour on the Russian physician who spun the small happenings of old Russia into some of the most p...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
How Would Burke Makeover the GOP
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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David Bromwich introduces us to the conservative hero Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman who befriended the American Revolution, hate...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 1
China Rising
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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China is in its own gilded age says The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, into a second generation of ultra-modern tech, a still-developing country bri...

Bought by KZYX and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Vijay Iyer: Jazz in the 21st Century
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...

Bought by KMUW and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
David Foster Wallace on The Connection with Chris Lydon, February 1996
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In February 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just be...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KFOK-LPFM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 36:36
  • Purchases: 3
The John Updike Radio Files
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We've discovered some old gems in our radio archives and sprinkled them through a conversation with John Updike's biographer, Adam Begley, for our ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
Peniel Joseph on Stokely Carmichael (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. At the end of June, 1964, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
One Nation Under Surveillance
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s the artists — from Orwell of Nineteen Eighty-Four, to Philip Dick and Margaret Atwood, to Trevor Paglen and Banksy — who raise the big questio...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Benjamen Walker (Theory of Everything) on 1984 (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
Ashkan Soltani on NSA surveillance (excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Ashkan Soltani is a researcher for The Washington Post, who broke many of the NSA surveillance stories from the Edward Snowden leak. He tells us ab...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Fritz Pleitgen: Lessons from the Stasi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Fritz Pleitgen is a journalist who covered the Stasi in East Germany during the 1980s. He explains how one lives and acts in a surveillance state.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Trevor Paglen: Seeing the Surveillance State (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're living in a surveillance state, in the eerie transparency of our words and deeds, 24/7, all of us, under suspicion or not; the presumption of...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1

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