Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

The Roy Haynes Century

Posted November 26, 2024 • 00:38:17

We’re saluting one man’s century in American music. Roy Haynes was the jazz drummer from Boston who shaped the bebop sound in Harlem 80 years ago....

Joshua Cohen’s Camp

Posted November 15, 2024 • 00:37:22

We’re with the writer’s writer Joshua Cohen—beyond category, but ever ahead of the game. He’s a realist, a fantasist, a satirist, New Jersey-born...

United States of Fear

Posted November 7, 2024 • 00:24:51

Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population,...

Amber’s America: Love and Outrage

Posted November 2, 2024 • 00:31:05

In the long weekend of solemn suspense before our presidential election in 2024, our guest is Amber. I met Amber on a call-in radio show almost 30 years...

Playground

Posted October 24, 2024 • 00:42:56

Richard Powers may just be the bravest big novelist out there. His new book is titled Playground, in which AI plays with the natural world....