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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

America's First Dance with the Devil
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Led by Stacy Schiff, author of a controversial new thriller-history about witches, we’re looking at the Salem trials again as a whole.

Bought by WLRH, WMUU-LP, WRPI, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
The New New Deal
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The third in our podcast series about work, presented in partnership with The Nation. Big proposals and spiritual realignments for working-class pe...

Bought by KZYX, KPIP-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Life After Incarceration
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We speak to four survivors of mass incarceration.

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
9 to 5 in 2015
From: Open Source
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We continue a three-part series on work in America. This is Part Two: what we do all day, and how we feel about it.

Bought by KZYX, KMXT, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Office at Amazon
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Nikil Saval, author and editor of n+1 magazine, talks about how the American office has (and hasn't) changed since its origin in the late 19th cent...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Fate of the Union
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Throughout the 20th century, organized labor was a central feature of American life. Our guide, the historian Steve Fraser, asks what happened—betw...

Bought by WUFT, XRAY.fm, KMXT, KZYX, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Speaking of Music: Oliver Sacks
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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What makes a piece of music "great"? From where does that inexplicable effect of music on our emotions come?

Bought by KMUN and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 37:58
  • Purchases: 2
Iran: Yea or Nay?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're looking beyond the lobbying, boosterism and the #IranDeal tweet war to ask the weighty one-word question with no easy answer: yea or nay?

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KZYX, WRPI, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Donald Trump, World Wrestler
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Jeet Heer, senior editor at the New Republic, expounds on his colleague Elspeth Reeeve's theory that Trump is best understood as a wrestling heel.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Very Brief History of the Microphone
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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John Szwed, historian of sound and music, walks us through how Billie Holiday — along with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, and Johnnie Ra...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 3

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