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
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
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
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
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.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 33:00
  • Purchases: 1
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 KICI Iowa City, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
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 KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
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 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