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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Remembering Frederick Wiseman this week—here's our conversation with Wiseman on a lifetime of observing: radioopensource.org/seeing-ameri...
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Seeing America with Frederick Wiseman - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
A conversation with Frederick Wiseman on his new film, Monrovia, Indiana, and a lifetime of observing. We’re way back home in Monrovia, Indiana, in Frederick Wiseman’s deep cinematic dive into Red Sta...
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
We just checked in with Pico Iyer again, but this time about his surprise role in Marty Supreme! Listen to the conversation wherever you go for podcasts AND leave us a note about it over at this little Reddit post we made: www.reddit.com/r/OpenSource...
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From the OpenSourcePodcast community on Reddit: Pico Supreme
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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." radioopensource.org/from-social-...
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From Social to Spiritual Media
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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." radioopensource.org/angus-kings-...
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Angus King’s Civics Lesson
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This week: Kurt Andersen on Trump. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts: radioopensource.org/trump-part-ii/
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Trump Part II
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This week, hear a conversation with Pico Iyer about silence and monastic life. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts: radioopensource.org/aflame/
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Aflame
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
GODWIN is a great book AND you can hear Joseph O'Neill on Open Source in a conversation prompted by the book: radioopensource.org/political-fo...
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Political Football
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This week: Liz Walker on trauma in Palestine. Find the conversation at our site or wherever you go for podcasts: radioopensource.org/from-boston-...
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From Boston to Bethlehem
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtj...
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Blyth is Back
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thank you!
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfT...
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Not Your Standard Book Chat
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"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. radioopensource.org/not-your-sta...
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Not Your Standard Book Chat
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
On Giving Tuesday (who came up with that btw?), please think of making a donation to the hardest working team in podcasting! donate.stripe.com/7sIaFq0Cw754...
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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: radioopensource.org/the-roy-hayn...
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The Roy Haynes Century
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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: radioopensource.org/joshua-cohen...
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Joshua Cohen’s Camp
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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."
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It seems Book Detective had "just one more thing."
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-27/ess...
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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 · 18/11/2024
Well worth listening to!
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Open Source @radioopensource.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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Joshua Cohen’s Camp
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