Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

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Everything but the broadcast hours.

This is your home for ROS podcasts, radio segments, essential interviews, and rediscovered conversations--for distribution on mobile, radio, and web. The moments that move us most. Everything under an hour. For more info please contact conor at prx dot org.


30 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
The Tragedy of Tony Blair
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Sidney Blumenthal and Christopher Lydon consider the scathing Chilcot verdict on Tony Blair’s contribution to the war on Iraq.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 14:55
  • Purchases: 1
Susan Faludi: My Father The Woman
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Susan Faludi's father, estranged from her and aged 76, emailed his daughter with a bombshell: he now identified as a woman after reassignment surge...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 32:01
  • Purchases: 1
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 WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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
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 WHCP-LP Cambridge and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
James Wood on the Books of Life
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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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.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 33:00
Depression, Inside-Out
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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For our podcast, George Scialabba is speaking about philosophy, life, and his decades-long bout with depression on the occasion of an article he wr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 32:44
  • Purchases: 4
Steve Brill's Bitter Pill
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Our podcast with Steve Brill, who's investigating the story behind Obama's Affordable Care Act: how a messy democracy awash in special-interest mon...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 22:25
  • Purchases: 2
Cotton: The Guilty Fabric of Our Lives
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Our podcast with Sven Beckert, whose new book, Empire of Cotton, is an exhilarating, 250-year profile of the commodity that came to model and drive...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 3
Who's Bigger Than Stalin?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Our podcast with Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin, who has taken on the most important biography he can imagine: the life, rise and thirty-year r...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 31:04
  • Purchases: 2
Black Prophetic Fire
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Cornel West calls for new fervor and love—the kind once heard in Coltrane or B.B. King—in a rising generation.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 5
Jill Lepore: The Feminist and the Superhero
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Jill Lepore tells the secret history of Wonder Woman—and how the superhero mirrored the ups and downs of a feminist movement.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KICI Iowa City, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 6
Sounding the Sea
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams thinks of "place as music and music as place." His latest work for symphony orchestra, a dark, swirling epi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 4
13 Days in September
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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The New Yorker magazine's Lawrence Wright re-hatches the only (and unviolated) peace treaty between Israelis and Arabs, the Camp David Summit in 1978.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, Radio Newark, and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 4
War and Musical Dada
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 6
The Most Dangerous Book
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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What in James Joyce's Ulysses was so dangerously obscene? And why were the novel's greatest champions women? Chris Lydon talks with Kevin Birmingha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KPIP-LP, WABE, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 6
Vijay Iyer's Jazz Ancestry
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Pianist Vijay Iyer revisits his musical role models, and wonders: Where is jazz headed in a new century?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 18:39
  • Purchases: 3
An Age of Ambition in China
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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What does it mean when people can get rich without political freedom? New Yorker writer Evan Osnos spent eight years in China covering the nation's...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Radio Newark, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:57
  • Purchases: 4
Embrace Noir
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads his poem "Embrace Noir."

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 2