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World’s first podcast. Conversations about arts, ideas, and politics hosted by Christopher Lydon.

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 27

We're thankful for Roy Haynes, the jazz drummer who energized scores of jazz stars: Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, + many more.

Roy Haynes died recently, 4 months before his 100th birthday. We remember him on this week's show with Robin Kelley:

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The Roy Haynes Century

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Mar 30

New show! Hear @tricialockwood.bsky.social: "I'll see halos around things or shadows in words. A lot of times reading, I'll get just the barest beginnings of an aura, of a migraine. And for me, that's where it happens. That's where it really hits."

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From Social to Spiritual Media

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Feb 28

This week on Open Source: a civics lesson from Senator Angus King, during what King calls "the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history."

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Angus King’s Civics Lesson

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Feb 3

This week: Kurt Andersen on Trump. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts:

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Trump Part II

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Jan 24

This week, hear a conversation with Pico Iyer about silence and monastic life.

Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts:

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Aflame

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Jan 24

GODWIN is a great book AND you can hear Joseph O'Neill on Open Source in a conversation prompted by the book:

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Jan 11

This week: Liz Walker on trauma in Palestine. Find the conversation at our site or wherever you go for podcasts:

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From Boston to Bethlehem

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Dec 15

This week, it's an Open Source tradition: Mark Blyth returns to the show, to talk about Trump II, Bidenomics, and more. Here, for example, is the YouTube link, but it's also wherever you go for podcasts:

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Blyth is Back

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thank you!

Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Nov 27

The longest-running (and first??) podcast ever is still going strong, thanks to Christopher Lydon, one of the most talented interviewers and radio hosts around. If you’re looking for thought-provoking listening on arts/news, I highly recommend “Open Source.” The recent Roy Haynes episode is great.

Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Dec 6

Nobel-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk to Chris Lydon: "I'm losing my temper, sir."

Find their tense conversation wherever you go for podcasts--and we've put it on YouTube, too:

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Not Your Standard Book Chat

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Dec 6

"You are manipulating me, which you should not do."

This week, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk stops by the show. The result: nothing like your standard book chat.

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Not Your Standard Book Chat

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Dec 3

On Giving Tuesday (who came up with that btw?), please think of making a donation to the hardest working team in podcasting!
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 27

The Roy Haynes Century

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 21

Cohen says, "And it's that 'no' that, to my mind, represents the essential freedom-giving element of my tradition, or at least the tradition as I construe it."

Find the conversation at our site or wherever you go for podcasts:

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Joshua Cohen’s Camp

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 21

The novelist Joshua Cohen on this week's show:

"I think that there is a strain of Jewishness, let's say, so as not to say the word Judaism, that is deeply diasporic, and it is in some way a product of a negative theology. It is essentially the idea of saying, 'No.' It is the refusal to join."

Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 20

It seems Book Detective had "just one more thing."

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 19

Joshua "Pulitzer-winner from Atlantic City" Cohen wrote a classic essay about Atlantic City and Trump for @nplusonemag.bsky.social, and on our latest show, we talk to him about Atlantic City and the ongoing Trump era.

Here's the n+1 essay:

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The Last Last Summer | Joshua Cohen

All along the Boardwalk, the sun-bleached, tattered banners read do ac — the city’s latest marketing catchphrase. The Boardwalk was a scrum of such imperatives, with Trumps on every side issuing edict...

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Patsy @patsybaud.bsky.social · Nov 18

Well worth listening to!

Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 15

This week's show: Pulitzer-winner Joshua Cohen on Trump, Netanyahu, and the state of the world.

Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts!

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Joshua Cohen’s Camp

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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · Nov 15

This week's show: Pulitzer-winner Joshua Cohen on Trump, Netanyahu, and the state of the world.

Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts!

radioopensource.org/joshua-cohen...

Joshua Cohen’s Camp

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