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
Barney Frank: Talker of the House
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Barney Frank’s new memoir, Frank, reflects on U.S. politics and culture over 50 years, 1965 to 2015. We’re putting our podcast conversation here in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 43:01
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Lewis's Age of Money
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Michael Lewis, the great tale-spinner in the Second Gilded Age in America, says that, after the latest financial crisis, "dissatisfaction is homele...

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


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 3
Ganzeer in America
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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For our podcast, we're taking a trip to Brooklyn with the graffiti genius Ganzeer, who's talking art as social commentary—Concept Pop, as he calls ...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 24:33
  • Purchases: 4
A Winter Journey
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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For our podcast, tenor and writer Ian Bostridge takes us on an omnidirectional tour through key songs in Schubert's late masterpiece, Winterreise.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 2
A Strange Amalgam of Identities
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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For our podcast, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen speaks about his new memoir, which circles the underlying themes of his mother’s suicidal dep...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 38:06
  • Purchases: 1
John Updike on Rabbit Remembered
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Richard Powers on Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 3
Boy, Snow, Bird
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 2
The Day Lou Reed Died
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
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
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 KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, Radio Newark, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:57
  • Purchases: 5
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
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
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, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 7
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
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
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
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
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