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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

Ask us to make your station a custom promo! Contact us at info@radioopensource.org.

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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468 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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The election of Donald Trump supposedly ushered in a new era of “fake news” and “post-truth” politics. Democracy would die in darkness, we were tol...

Bought by KUNM, KUAF Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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The people’s economist Mark Blyth is a perpetual fan favorite for Open Source listeners. The Brown University professor, who never left behind his ...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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We're ringing in the new year with a rerun of our conversation with Billy Bragg, a troubadour for British radicalism for more than thirty years as ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Noam Chomsky for 50 years has been America’s Socrates, our public pest with questions that sting … not the city-square of Athens but a vast global ...

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


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Nukes are on people’s nerves again, for good reason. Our tremors, though, could be a symptom of sanity.

Bought by WLPR , WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The news in our scandal-sick USA is that a woman can complain of sexual oppression with some assurance that she will be heard.

Bought by KMXT, KUAF Public Radio, WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Otis Redding’s five magnificent years in showbiz transformed the sound of soul music.

Bought by KMUW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM, WAER Syracuse, NY, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
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This Thanksgiving, we’re replaying our episode on the issue of opioids. Their epidemic running rampant has a 30-year back story and a grisly punch-...

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


  • Added: Nov 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both.

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s world, and we are just scrolling through it: 2 billion of us now, a quarter of all humanity.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9