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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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