Open Source

GroupAccount image
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

Ask us to make your station a custom promo! Contact us at info@radioopensource.org.

Series

Series image
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.

Series image
Open Source Shorts and Podcasts 
30 Pieces

Everything but the broadcast hours.

Series image
Open Source with Christopher Lydon 
467 Pieces

An American conversation with global attitude - on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon.

Series image
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

Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen'
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
In the time of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston, the poet Claudia Rankine has been the lyric teller of our deepest hurt.

Bought by WCPN, WLPR , WMUU-LP, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
'Oxi' Means 'Maybe'
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
Syriza’s turn from defiance to compliance may leave the millions of “no” voters feeling more discouraged than ever before.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Trump This!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
Why is that from the billionaire candidate Donald Trump, wide-open narcissism, sexism, and anti-Mexican racism are accepted, even applauded?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Billie Holiday at 100
From: Open Source
Piece image
The astonishment about Billie Holiday in her 100th birthday summer is how differently we hear her. Our hour-long special on the myth and music of L...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMUW, KCMJ Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Behind The Persian Curtain
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
After two years, three “final” deadlines, and a cabinet-level bike wreck, we have a deal with Iran. It feels like a time to celebrate. This week, w...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Gunther Schuller, RIP: A Life Inside Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
Schuller, who died last week at 89, was a prodigious, captivated, sometimes cantankerous prisoner of every kind of modern music: between Beethoven ...

Bought by KMUW and WFMT Station Account


  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
James Wood on the Books of Life
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
Piece image
The New Yorker's book critic speaks with Christopher Lydon for our podcast about life-changing works of literature. From Virginia Woolf to Teju Cole.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pope and the Planet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
In an encyclical letter, Pope Francis himself will intervene next week on the global story of climate change, bringing scientific and moral authori...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Whitman at War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Piece image
The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5

Actions

Playlists

none

People who work with Open Source

Caption: PRX default User image
Mary McGrath (Admin)
User image
Conor Gillies (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Kunal Jasty (Admin)
Caption: PRX default User image
Open Source Admin (Admin)