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An American conversation with global attitude — on the arts, humanities, and global affairs — with your host, Christopher Lydon.

Consider adding us to your weekly schedule; we post regular broadcast hours for public radio Friday afternoons.

For shorter stand-alone radio stories and podcasts: check out our series "Open Source Shorts."

Full-length conversations are also available via podcast or at radioopensource.org

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Series

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In Search of Monsters: The Rise and Fall of American Empire 
22 Pieces

Inspired by John Quincy Adams’s admonition that America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” this limited-series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft explores America’s role in the world across history in order to see a better way forward.

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Open Source Shorts and Podcasts 
30 Pieces

Everything but the broadcast hours.

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Open Source with Christopher Lydon 
469 Pieces

An American conversation with global attitude - on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon.

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Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov 
5 Pieces

“Reading Chekhov” is the name of this game – a podcast experiment with, by all accounts, the greatest short-story writer of them all, the medical doctor who was also the “Cherry Orchard” playwright, Anton Chekhov.

Pieces

Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Gulag has there been a dissenting artist who got to be as famous as the government that houn...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 39:42
  • Purchases: 1
Ray Kurzweil on The End of Work
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn’t need YOU, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Earth 2.0
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Lines in the Sand
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The borders that divide up our modern world hinge, sometimes, on decisions that have stopped making sense. The Middle East is still suffering from ...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, KUOW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 4
One Nation Under Surveillance Vox (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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On the news of the latest information from Edward Snowden, we're catching up with what the government knows about us and what Google, Facebook and ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
Trevor Paglen: Seeing the Surveillance State (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're living in a surveillance state, in the eerie transparency of our words and deeds, 24/7, all of us, under suspicion or not; the presumption of...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Fritz Pleitgen: Lessons from the Stasi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Fritz Pleitgen is a journalist who covered the Stasi in East Germany during the 1980s. He explains how one lives and acts in a surveillance state.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Ashkan Soltani on NSA surveillance (excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Ashkan Soltani is a researcher for The Washington Post, who broke many of the NSA surveillance stories from the Edward Snowden leak. He tells us ab...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Benjamen Walker (Theory of Everything) on 1984 (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
One Nation Under Surveillance
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s the artists — from Orwell of Nineteen Eighty-Four, to Philip Dick and Margaret Atwood, to Trevor Paglen and Banksy — who raise the big questio...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1

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