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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."

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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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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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In recent weeks, our comments section has been filled with request to define a term we use constantly on this show: neoliberalism.

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


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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It’s plague time in America. We’ve reacquainted ourselves with the wannabe centurions of white supremacy: their faces, their weapons, their torches.

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The dawn of a new age flashed across the news this summer – dateline Oregon: scientists from the US, China and South Korea together had tweaked the...

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


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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There is no following this story, this confounding condition, this inescapable event called Trump.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, KALW, WLPR , and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Billy Bragg has been the premier troubadour for British radicalism for more than thirty years: a democratic socialist with a guitar and a steadfast...

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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The Opioid epidemic running rampant this summer has a 30-year back story and a grisly punch-line for 2017: drug deaths this year alone are heading ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, Capital Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Henry David Thoreau on his 200th birthday has invited us back to his woodsy, watery old town of Concord, Massachusetts where crystalline American p...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Henry David Thoreau, on his 200th birthday, is an American immortal who got there the hard way – against the grain of his town and his times.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WRGY, KTRT RADIO INC, KISU, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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In the first summer of Trump, 2017, there’s something happening and it feels bigger than the Comey hearings, even Russia-gate. Who knew that a Brit...

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


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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(Rerun episode from 12/7/16) Bob Dylan, the poet, has been singing more than 50 years, but have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMXT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7