Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Richard Powers: A Musical Theory of Everything

Posted January 23, 2014 • 00:45:30

Richard Powers is indulging us...

The rise of modern medicine

Posted January 16, 2014 • 00:49:25

In the annals of Boston medicine two historic chapters in the last 50 years were the near conquest of sudden death by heart attack and (not unrelated)...

Eugene Braunwald: Heart to Heart

Posted January 16, 2014 • 00:14:58

Eugene Braunwald, who gets credit for...

Reading Chekhov: II: â€œDreamsâ€

Posted January 14, 2014 • 00:41:36

Anton Chekhov on a visit with Lev Tolstoy c. 1901. “I have loved no man the way I have loved him. I am not a believer, but of all beliefs I consider...

Amiri Baraka: Ennobled by Coltrane

Posted January 10, 2014 • 00:16:59

Amiri Baraka‘s death prompts me to repost a conversation we had about the music of John Coltrane, which inspired Baraka and ennobled the ambitions...