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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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467 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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A conversation with J. Michael Lennon and John Buffalo Mailer about Norman Mailer.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KMUN, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 37:31
  • Purchases: 5
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A conversation with Lydia Moland about Lydia Maria Child.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 35:06
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 31:48
  • Purchases: 7
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Conversations about John Quincy Adams with Sara Martin, James Traub, and Andrew Bacevich.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 10
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A conversation with Marianna Mazzucato about reframing government's role in the economy.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KSFR, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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A conversation with Colm Tóibín about the novelist Thomas Mann.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 11
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A conversation with Jan Swafford and Robert Levin about Mozart.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WLPR , KSFR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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A conversation with Chas Freeman about the changing status of the US in the world.

Bought by KUNM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMUN, KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 11
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Conversations with Sandra Steingraber and Maria Popover about Rachel Carson.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 11