Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Open Source is the world’s longest-running podcast. Christopher Lydon circles the big ideas in culture, the arts and politics with the smartest people in the world. It’s the kind of curious, critical, high-energy conversation we’re all missing nowadays.Be part of the action: leave a voice message to be played on the air; get in touch over Facebook or Twitter; or email us – info@radioopensource.org with show ideas, advice, requests and high-quality criticism.
Podcasts
The Humbling of Harvard
Published: Jan. 18, 2024, 11:54 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds
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The Most Secret Memory of Men
Published: Jan. 5, 2024, 12:55 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 17 seconds
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The Revolutionary
Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 10:46 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 39 seconds
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Israel and Palestine Across History
Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 12:33 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 49 seconds
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Chas Freeman on a Kaleidoscopic Turn
Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 11:43 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 41 seconds
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Upended Assumptions
Published: Nov. 3, 2023, 1:01 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds
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George Eliots Marriage Story
Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 10:24 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes
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Zadie Smith on The Fraud
Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 11:03 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 15 seconds
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The Cosmic Scholar
Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 10:23 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds
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The Country of the Blind
Published: July 27, 2023, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 44 seconds
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Happy Birthday to Us
Published: June 29, 2023, 5:18 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds
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A Working Life with Eileen Myles
Published: May 16, 2023, 5:51 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 24 seconds
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Failing Intelligence
Published: May 4, 2023, 10:06 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 5 seconds
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Frozen Moments with Ed Koren
Published: April 19, 2023, 11:13 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 25 seconds
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How William James Can Save Your Life
Published: April 6, 2023, 9:43 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 49 seconds
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Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Published: March 23, 2023, 9:26 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 22 seconds
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Norman Mailer Turns 100
Published: Feb. 23, 2023, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds
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A Radical American Life
Published: Feb. 9, 2023, 11:54 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 1 second
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Thank You, Patrick Lydon
Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
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Moonshot Economics
Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 7:26 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 11 seconds
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Mann the Magician
Published: Jan. 5, 2023, 9:08 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 51 seconds
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
Published: Dec. 29, 2022, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 25 seconds
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Thoroughly Modern Mozart
Published: Dec. 22, 2022, 6:51 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 41 seconds
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Prudent Statecraft
Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 10:57 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 44 seconds
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The Maelstrom of Geopolitics
Published: Dec. 9, 2022, 12:08 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds
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Silent Spring, 60 Years Later
Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 10:21 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 28 seconds
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Taiwan, the World-Class Puzzle
Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 12:52 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 12 seconds
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The Historians Diagnosis
Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 11:47 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 35 seconds
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Lovecraft Country
Published: Sept. 22, 2022, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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Well Always Have Casablanca
Published: Sept. 15, 2022, 10:05 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 5 seconds
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Studs Terkels Feeling Tone
Published: Sept. 9, 2022, midnightDuration: 49 minutes 56 seconds
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DFW, FTW: Life In the Internet Age
Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 1 second
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The Soviet Symphonist
Published: Aug. 25, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds
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A New History of Humanity
Published: Aug. 11, 2022, 10:58 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 51 seconds
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Wagner and Wagnerism
Published: March 18, 2021, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds
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The CRISPR Challenge
Published: March 11, 2021, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds
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Billie Holiday at 100
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 57 seconds
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Write Like the Russians
Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 10:56 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds
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Malcolm X in Boston and Beyond
Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
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Presidential Poetry
Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 11:54 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 53 seconds
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Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach
Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 10:45 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 20 seconds
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Greta Gerwig Meets Louisa May Alcott
Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 10:55 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds
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The Joy and Genius of Erroll Garner
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 4:56 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds
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Documenting Democracy: Fred Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’
Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds
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Election Disconnection
Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 10:18 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds
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COVID on the Ballot
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 9 seconds
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JFK in the American Century
Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 16 seconds
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Green New Generation
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 10:05 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds
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The Confidence Man
Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 7 seconds
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Look on the Blyth Side
Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 54 seconds
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The Neuro-Adventures of Oliver Sacks
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 12:40 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds
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The Unmaking of America
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 5:53 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 12 seconds
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Moby-Dick in 2020
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 11 seconds
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American Autocracy
Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 58 seconds
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Nicholson Baker Searches for Secrets
Published: July 30, 2020, 6:59 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes
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The Next Generation
Published: July 23, 2020, 9:35 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 48 seconds
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A Public Conversation Gone Sour
Published: July 16, 2020, 11:17 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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Reparations and the Wealth Gap
Published: July 9, 2020, 9:49 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 20 seconds
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Return of the Prophet: Baldwin in the 21st Century
Published: July 2, 2020, 8:26 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 20 seconds
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Deaths of Despair
Published: June 18, 2020, 9:51 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds
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Inequality and Injustice
Published: June 11, 2020, 9:56 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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Reviving Reconstruction
Published: June 4, 2020, 9:58 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 20 seconds
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Coronavirus Conspiracism
Published: May 14, 2020, 8:22 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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Public Health Across the Pacific
Published: May 1, 2020, 1:48 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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Questions of Leadership
Published: April 23, 2020, 7:04 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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The Many Faces of Ferrante
Published: April 16, 2020, 8:33 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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Viral Inequality
Published: April 10, 2020, 3:26 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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The Pandemic’s Path
Published: April 3, 2020, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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Profits or People
Published: March 27, 2020, 1:07 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 19 seconds
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Springtime in the Plague Year
Published: March 20, 2020, 2:08 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 46 seconds
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Contagious Crisis
Published: March 13, 2020, 3:30 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 53 seconds
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Plagues, Pathogens, and Panic
Published: March 6, 2020, 5:43 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
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The New Red Scare
Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 3:38 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 56 seconds
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The New Hampshire Primary
Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 3:16 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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The Age of Illusions
Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 1:56 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds
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The Costs of War
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 3:59 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 23 seconds
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2020 Hindsight on Iraq
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 3:52 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 56 seconds
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The Inimitable Johnny Hodges
Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 2:11 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds
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Ben Lerner’s Literary Charge
Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 8:12 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 25 seconds
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Labour’s Love Lost
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 3:19 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
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Impeachment Lite
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 5:12 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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Hong Kong Crackdown
Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 2:12 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
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Billionaire Noir
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 5:52 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 53 seconds
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In Hoffa’s Shadow
Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 4:34 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 26 seconds
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Monopoly vs. Democracy
Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 1:35 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
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Harold Bloom’s Spark
Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 3:29 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 20 seconds
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The CIA’s Covert Chemist
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 2:49 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 13 seconds
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Tech-Master Disaster: Part Three
Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 1:54 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds
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Tech-Master Disaster: Part Two
Published: Sept. 20, 2019, 3:51 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds
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Tech-Master Disaster: Part One
Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 2:07 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds
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Pick Your Populism
Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 2:07 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 23 seconds
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Tom Reney’s Discs for a Desert Island
Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 12:45 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 58 seconds
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Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!
Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 3:01 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 11 seconds
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A Politics of Love
Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds
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Middlemarch at the Beach
Published: July 19, 2019, 2:50 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds
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Adventures in D Flat
Published: July 4, 2019, 12:46 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds
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Who Killed the American Century?
Published: June 14, 2019, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds
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Tiananmen Square and China’s 1980s
Published: June 7, 2019, 2:13 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds
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Beyond Stonewall: From Power to Pride
Published: May 31, 2019, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds
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At Home in Japan with Pico Iyer
Published: May 24, 2019, 1:50 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 16 seconds
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Russiagate, Unredacted
Published: April 19, 2019, 12:40 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 3 seconds
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The Bauhaus in Your House
Published: April 12, 2019, 12:49 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds
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