Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Gunther Schuller, RIP: A Life Inside Music

Posted July 1, 2015 • 00:50:03

When he was just a young musician, Gunther Schuller decided on four hours of sleep a night. At 18, Schuller told us, “I figured out, ‘God damn...

Let’s Talk About Charleston

Posted June 24, 2015 • 00:49:57

This week we talked about the young white man, Dylann Storm Roof, who — self-deputized to protect white America — gutted one of the South’s most...

Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud

Posted June 19, 2015 • 00:49:39

It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outsider...

The Pope and the Planet

Posted June 11, 2015 • 00:50:00

Habemus problem! In an encyclical letter due next week, Pope Francis himself will intervene in the global story of climate change, bringing scientific...

Whitman at War

Posted June 2, 2015 • 00:49:58

The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nursing...