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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467 Pieces

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Ferguson is Everywhere
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The protests carry on and for now, as the protestors say, Ferguson is everywhere — not just in the news, but in our institutions, our interactions,...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
The New Kids On The Block
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The protests chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” in the wake of the police killings in Missouri, New York, and elsewhere, will draw...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Beethoven at the Piano
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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"As volcanic was the man’s painful life and descent into deafness, so his musical production was miraculously steady, virtually flawless, endlessly...

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
Rediscovering Cuba
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Starting last month, the American freeze-out of Communist Cuba, which long outlasted the Cold War, began to come to an end. It may have been a smal...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Learning from Paris
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The story of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo has gone everywhere in the past week: into meditations on free speech and blasphemy, into declarations o...

Bought by KZYX and KWIT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Hacking Affordable Care
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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On this Kickstarter-launch week we’re diagnosing America’s healthcare woes with the meta-journalist and heart patient, Steve Brill.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
The Challenge of Our Time
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re continuing our “money machine” series on the cost of carbon capitalism. Gas gets cheaper, the weather gets warmer, and for our guests the env...

Bought by KMXT, KZYX, and WRPI


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
The Selma Moment
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week we’re taking the measure of the mystery known as LBJ at the Selma moment: not the cinema bully caught dragging his heels in movie theater...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Violent Extremism, East and West
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Next Wednesday the White House is convening a summit on ‘countering violent extremism.’ The details are sketchy — a press release announces that th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
After Attica
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
"The Changing Same": Race in America
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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As a scholar and a father, Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson has spent his career puzzling over the “immutable force” in American race relation...

Bought by WUFT and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Meaning of Money
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
J.S. Bach’s Bitter-Sweet Passion
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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From the great Bach’s hand, two masterpieces of church theater survive. Both tell the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, one from the gospel of Matthe...

Bought by 'The Sea', WNMU-FM, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
Losing the Peace
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Can China Lead
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The People’s Republic has arrived and is applying for co-trusteeship of the globe. We got a good look at the co-trustee, China’s enigmatic presiden...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Our Worst War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky, and Christian Appy on the legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Knausgaard: The New Novel Thing
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Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is sweeping the world in six volumes and 3,600 pages. It’s the novelized memory of a mostly ordinary Scandinavian...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
TPP on Trial
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Democrats’ revolt against President Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership has everything to do with the “giant sucking sound” of job loss echoing o...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Rebirth of a Nation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Both our guests Eric Foner and Heather Cox Richardson want to shout it from the rooftops: the little-known history of Reconstruction is where the s...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMXT, KPIP-LP, and WRPI


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 4
What Money Can't Buy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seven years after the credit crunch, we know the markets have rebounded. Executive pay is back up; the public sector’s still shrinking relatively a...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1

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