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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465 Pieces

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The Catholic Church's Clerical Errors

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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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It's not only a game anymore...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KWIT, WLPR , WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The real Resistance is at work.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KWIT, KSFR, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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A conversation about the Grenfell Tower fire with Andrew O'Hagan of the London Review of Books

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Pressley, Capuano, and the Future of Progressive Politics in MA-7.

Bought by KVNF, KICI Iowa City, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWIT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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From "Sorry to Bother You" and "Random Acts of Flyness" to "Lemonade," a new wave of black popular culture has arrived.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This is a story of where music comes from, what it means, and who owns it.

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


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Otis Redding’s five magnificent years in showbiz transformed the sound of soul music. His grainy, growling, and “squawking” voice kept the music ro...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WLPR , KALW, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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The jobs are back. It’s the work that feels fishy: so much of it paid but pointless; safe and even secure, but often un-satisfying if you were loo...

Bought by KSFR, KWIT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
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Calling on the spies we know best – all of them fictional – to explain the Helsinki summit: If it was spy-craft in plain sight, what would James Bo...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Grenfell Tower was that giant pillar of public housing on the West side of London that went up in flames a year ago. Suddenly it was a smoky chemi...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Your friends and other experts will tell you the songs and sounds that are new and hot. What the music makers are happier telling you is: what’s ol...

Bought by KWMR, WLPR , WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWIT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 7
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The shock of migrant kids-in-cages on our border with Mexico is surfacing tough questions if you’re willing to look back at our history and ahead t...

Bought by KSFR, WLPR , KWIT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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From “fire and fury” to a “terrific relationship” in less than a year sound like a happy turn in the Trump-Kim dance around nukes and North Korea. ...

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, KWIT, WRGY, KICI Iowa City, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Seymour Hersh, known as Sy, made a brilliant career, at his best, of exposing Official US, at its worst: the Army massacre at My Lai, in Vietnam. T...

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


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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The Studs Terkel edge on the radio was, first of all, picking guests who would sound more interesting 50, 60 years later: Mahalia Jackson, Bucky Fu...

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Our long, gabby afternoon with Philip Roth in 2006, at his farmhouse in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, was a sort of pay-off. I’d helped him find ju...

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  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
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One split screen wasn’t really enough for the asymmetries we’re looking at now, but there it was: Ivanka unveiling the Trump embassy plaque in Jeru...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KKRN


  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Dropping out of the Iran nuclear deal has the feel of dropping into the John Bolton phase of the Trump era. Trump in Full. Trump Extra. The theme ...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A specter is haunting human affairs these days: it’s the thought that Karl Marx (on his 200th birthday this week) may have been more right than w...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8