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Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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An American conversation with global attitude -- on the arts, humanities, and global affairs, hosted by Christopher Lydon

We post regular broadcast hours for public radio.

Full-length conversations are available via podcast. Our blog is updated several times weekly.

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OPEN SOURCE: Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"
Series: Pakistan Aslant
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE: Pakistan Aslant (2) - Roots of Resilience
Series: Pakistan Aslant
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring fi...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Aesthetic Bliss with Edna O'Brien and Lila Azam Zanganeh
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're succumbing to the enchantments of prose this hour, first with Edna O'Brien, that "scandalous woman" in the James Joyce and Samuel Beckett fam...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE SHORTIES: Why They Call it "Going for Broke" with Mark Blyth
Series: Shorties
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

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  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE: Late in the Arab Spring with Juan Cole and Steven Heydemann
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With the news of Osama Bin Laden's death punctuating the reports from Libya, Syria, and Yemen, we're wondering: is this the beginning of the end, o...

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  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: The Great America in Writing - Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Cultural Capital - Hamid Dabashi & Andre Aciman
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Talking Poetry in Our Time with Nicholson Baker and Franz Wright
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
OPEN SOURCE SHORTIES: The Man Who Recorded the World - Alan Lomax
Series: Shorties
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE SHORTIES: The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
Series: Shorties
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
OPEN SOURCE: On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: A Jewish Reflection on the Arab Revolt - Philip Weiss
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Journalist Philip Weiss reflects on the links and gaps between European anti-semitism, the neoconservative movement, the modern idea of Zionism, an...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: From Pakistan to Tanglewood - Vazira Zamindar & Composers
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "
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