Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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

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

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468 Pieces

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Trump Goes to China
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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President Trump is on tour in Asia this weekend: relieved maybe to be “getting out of Dodge” as his campaign team is getting indicted in D.C.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Democracy After Facebook
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s world, and we are just scrolling through it: 2 billion of us now, a quarter of all humanity.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Future of Food
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KALW, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Coming Crisis in Opioid Nation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This Thanksgiving, we’re replaying our episode on the issue of opioids. Their epidemic running rampant has a 30-year back story and a grisly punch-...

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


  • Added: Nov 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Afterlife of Otis Redding
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Otis Redding’s five magnificent years in showbiz transformed the sound of soul music.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Unmasking Misogyny
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The news in our scandal-sick USA is that a woman can complain of sexual oppression with some assurance that she will be heard.

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Doomsday Machine in 2017
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Nukes are on people’s nerves again, for good reason. Our tremors, though, could be a symptom of sanity.

Bought by WLPR , WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
American Socrates: The Life and Mind of Noam Chomsky (rebroadcast)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Noam Chomsky for 50 years has been America’s Socrates, our public pest with questions that sting … not the city-square of Athens but a vast global ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KALW, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Billy Bragg’s Guide to the Music of Dissent (rebroadcast)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're ringing in the new year with a rerun of our conversation with Billy Bragg, a troubadour for British radicalism for more than thirty years as ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Blyth’s State of the Union
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The people’s economist Mark Blyth is a perpetual fan favorite for Open Source listeners. The Brown University professor, who never left behind his ...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Inconsistent Truth
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The election of Donald Trump supposedly ushered in a new era of “fake news” and “post-truth” politics. Democracy would die in darkness, we were tol...

Bought by KUNM, KUAF Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gimme Shelter
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In cities across the country, working and middle-class Americans are struggling to keep their homes, pay their rent, and fight off eviction and for...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Fog of Vietnam
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re beginning our series of 50th anniversary programs this week with one of the great shocks of 1968: the Tet Offensive.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The State of Disunion
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Despite what the president might say—the state of the union is: “divided,” “mixed,” “fractured,” and maybe “headed towards oblivion.”

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Algorithmic Age
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Consider the algorithm—the snippets of computer code which all too often seem to stand in for higher authority in our secular age, a sort of god.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KALW, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Struggle for Syria’s Future
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Syrian war is not over, meaning the war of the Assad regime to crush large swaths of its population.

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


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Call Me André Aciman
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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“Call me by your name,” the lovers say, “and I’ll call you by mine.” In the movie running strong for Oscar honors, the breathless word play is all ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KALW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The World of Wakanda
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend; already it seems that commercial success is lik...

Bought by WLPR , KALW, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Books Not Bars
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The case for prison education is alive again, in the land of mass incarceration, the case for reimagining prisons as colleges and universities of l...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KALW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Reviving the King
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Martin Luther King Jr. comes to seem larger in his absence these last 50 years, himself a cosmos, in Walt Whitman speak, containing multitudes—and ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUSU, KJZZ, WKMS, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18

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