Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Fuhgedaboutit

Posted July 25, 2019 • 00:50:15

“You must remember this,” the songwriter said, but is it ever that simple? Same for all the admonitions: never to forget. Really, never? Lewis Hyde...

Middlemarch at the Beach

Posted July 18, 2019 • 00:50:17

Middlemarch, a novel by the woman who gave herself a man’s by-line, “George Eliot,” may be the most honored masterpiece you’ve been avoiding...

Casino Capital

Posted July 11, 2019 • 00:50:12

Enjoy our casino show, which first aired on July 11, 2019. Casino gambling makes an odd fit with old bean-and-codfish Boston, even with Boston today:...

Adventures in D Flat

Posted July 4, 2019 • 00:50:17

Composer Matt Aucoin stands for the proposition that the kid playing baseball next door in Medfield, Massachusetts, can grow up to be all music, all...

Seeing America with Frederick Wiseman

Posted November 15, 2018 • 00:50:10

A conversation with Frederick Wiseman on his new film, Monrovia, Indiana, and a lifetime of observing. We’re way back home in Monrovia, Indiana,...