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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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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 
468 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

Trump Goes to China
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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President Trump is on tour in Asia this weekend: relieved maybe to be “getting out of Dodge” as his campaign team is getting indicted in D.C.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Scramble for Amazon
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Amazon, the online everything store with the arrow-headed smile in its logo, is ready to build its second headquarters (outside Seattle this time) ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUAF Public Radio, KVSC, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Intelligence By Design
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The “intelligence explosion” foretold 50 years ago, could be here any minute. Artificial intelligence has now survived the “AI winter” — and is bac...

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


  • Added: Oct 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Thelonious Monk at 100
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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At Thelonious Monk’s hundredth birthday, it’s our ears that have changed, not his sound.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Adapting to Disaster
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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An eerie suspense hangs over this Post-Puerto Rico moment. Seas rising, spirits falling.

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


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Unnatural Disaster
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Puerto Rico, a territory of three-and-a-half million US citizens, is unplugged, de-sheltered and desperate for months to come.

Bought by KVNF, KSFR, WCQS, KFCF FM, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Rethinking Schools in the DeVos Era
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Betsy Devos’s “Rethinking School” tour can feel like a mission to dismantle the whole system, public schools first.

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


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Mutually Assured Madness
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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At the brink of who knows what with North Korea, we seem to be back on the scary ledge as in the old Cold War cartoon: enemy rock-climbers hanging ...

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


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Farewell to John Ashbery
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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John Ashbery seemed to lower, not raise, his voice when he spoke his poems.

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


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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 KMUN, WLPR , WMUU-LP, and KALW


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4

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