Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Toni Morrison

Posted September 4, 2019 • 00:49:46

We’ve been reflecting on Toni Morrison and her legacy, and so we’re thinking of Chris’s interview with her back on The Connection. Here from our...

Tom Reney’s Discs for a Desert Island

Posted August 22, 2019 • 00:49:58

The jazz DJ Tom Reney has been telling people for 40 years about the true American art form. This hour he’s telling people about himself for a change:...

Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!

Posted August 15, 2019 • 00:50:11

Herman Melville, at his 200th birthday, is the American Shakespeare if only for his epic prose poem Moby Dick, or The Whale. That’s Maximum Melville;...

Tarantino’s 9th

Posted August 8, 2019 • 00:50:17

Spoiler alert! (Really.) The big movie to reckon with this summer may be as much about the mood of 2019 as about the Helter-Skelter 1960s. It’s Once...

A Politics of Love

Posted August 1, 2019 • 00:50:13

It’s been Marianne Williamson’s week in the presidential campaign, by the new metrics of Tweets (running less and less snarky), and Google searches...