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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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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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30 Pieces

Everything but the broadcast hours.

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469 Pieces

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

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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

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From “fire and fury” to a “terrific relationship” in less than a year sound like a happy turn in the Trump-Kim dance around nukes and North Korea. ...

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, KWIT, WRGY, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Seymour Hersh, known as Sy, made a brilliant career, at his best, of exposing Official US, at its worst: the Army massacre at My Lai, in Vietnam. T...

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


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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The Studs Terkel edge on the radio was, first of all, picking guests who would sound more interesting 50, 60 years later: Mahalia Jackson, Bucky Fu...

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Our long, gabby afternoon with Philip Roth in 2006, at his farmhouse in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, was a sort of pay-off. I’d helped him find ju...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WSLR, KUAF Public Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
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One split screen wasn’t really enough for the asymmetries we’re looking at now, but there it was: Ivanka unveiling the Trump embassy plaque in Jeru...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KKRN


  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Dropping out of the Iran nuclear deal has the feel of dropping into the John Bolton phase of the Trump era. Trump in Full. Trump Extra. The theme ...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A specter is haunting human affairs these days: it’s the thought that Karl Marx (on his 200th birthday this week) may have been more right than w...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Henry David Thoreau founded our literature of trees, glorying in the Eastern White Pine as the “emblem of my life,” to stand for “the West, the wil...

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


  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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What President Trump said he wanted was to get US firepower out of Syria. “Let the other people take care of it now,” in his words. What he settled...

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Three questions they didn’t get Mark Zuckerberg to consider. For openers: that leak of 87 million identities to Cambridge Analytica: was it a bug i...

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


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5