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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 
467 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

Sanders, Socialism, and the Youth Vote
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 2016, is Sanders’ socialism a vulnerability — or a selling point?

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Plot-Twist Politics
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 2016, the presidential election became electric. Meaning upsets, betrayals, collapses and mis-coronations — all of which works well as pure drama.

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Black Mountain College: 'The Grass-Roots of Democracy'
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In 1933, a group of freethinking American educators and academics took a look at their fresh, interwar world — and set about trying to remake it.

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Empire to Empire: Mary Beard's Rome
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re wondering where we stand now in the endless parade of fragile empires.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
'Star Wars': Our Postmodern Myth
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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What does it mean when a high-capital story survives as a global dream?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, WMUU-LP, KTSW 89.9, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Wildness
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re re-imagining an environmental crisis in the wake of the accord in Paris. The economists had their turn. Now we’re asking: What would the arti...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The New Nativism
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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As the nation of immigrants grows bigger, browner and in many ways more inclusive, the part of it that obsesses over the real America never quite g...

Bought by American Voices, WMUU-LP, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
What To Do After Paris?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Amb. Chas Freeman, a freethinking veteran of foreign service, and the French journalist Sylvain Cypel, we’re in the Open Source situation room...

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 4
Moneyball for City Hall
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Dan Koh, the new chief of staff to Boston’s mayor, wants city government to work like Brad Pitt’s team in Moneyball. How and for whom are we managi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Black Lives on Campus
From: Open Source
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What does the second civil rights movement look like? Is a new struggle for equality, in feelings as well as rights, afoot on American campuses?

Bought by KPIP-LP and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2

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