Open Source (radio show)
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{{Infobox radio show
| show_name = Open Source
| image = Radio Open Source.jpg
| imagesize = 110px
| format = News: Arts, literature, foreign affairs
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| home_station = WBUR
| syndicates = PRX
| presenter = Christopher Lydon
| creator = Christopher Lydon
Mary McGrath
| executive_producer = Mary McGrath
| producer = Mary McGrath
Conor Gillies
| first_aired = 2005
| last_aired = Present
| website = [http://radioopensource.org radioopensource.org]
| podcast = [http://www.radioopensource.org/feed/ www.radioopensource.org/feed/]
}}
Open Source is an American public radio show hosted by Christopher Lydon, former New York Times journalist and original host of The Connection.{{cite web
| url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2013/11/20/radio-talk-host-christopher-lydon-returns-wbur-after-year-absence/jLC042johF7aRALtnvWlNK/story.html
| title= After messy split from WBUR, Christopher Lydon returns
| author=Joseph P. Kahn
| date=2013-10-20
| publisher=The Boston Globe}}
The show focuses on the arts, literature, and foreign affairs.
History
In May 2005, Christopher Lydon and his longtime producer Mary McGrath partnered with University of Massachusetts Lowell's radio station WUML, WGBH (FM), and Public Radio International to produce Open Source as a daily call-in radio program. The show was syndicated by 32 NPR stations, before it was canceled on October 16, 2006.{{cite web
| url=http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_4500620
| title=U-Mass Lowell drops Lydon
| author=Robert Mills, Sun Staff
| date=2006-10-16
| publisher=The Sun (Lowell)
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026131532/http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_4500620
| archive-date=2006-10-26}} In 2007, Lydon moved to Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies to podcast hourlong conversations under the name Open Source.{{cite web
| url=http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=727
| title=Launching 'Open Source at the Watson Institute'
| date=2007-11-19
| publisher=Watson Institute for International Studies
| access-date=2014-05-22
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306025354/http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=727
| archive-date=2012-03-06
| url-status=dead
}} In 2013, Lydon and McGrath returned to WBUR to produce Open Source as a weekly show.{{cite web
| url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2013/11/20/radio-talk-host-christopher-lydon-returns-wbur-after-year-absence/jLC042johF7aRALtnvWlNK/story.html
| title= After messy split from WBUR, Christopher Lydon returns
| author=Joseph P. Kahn
| date=2013-10-20
| publisher=The Boston Globe}}
In 2014, Conor Gillies joined the team as audio producer.
Schedule
Open Source airs twice a week on WBUR, Thursday at 9pm and Sunday at 2pm. The Open Source podcast reaches listeners in over 150 countries each week. Open Source also produces ongoing series on its website, including "Reading Chekhov," a reading of Anton Chekhov's short stories by Boston actors and academics,{{cite web
| url=http://radioopensource.org/?s=reading+chekhov
| title=Reading Chekhov
}}
and "Parachute Radio," international conversations from Ghana, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Jamaica, Singapore and Cuba.{{cite web
| url=http://radioopensource.org/category/parachute-radio/
| title=Parachute Radio
}} Open Source is the world's oldest active podcast.{{Cite web|title=Podcasting History: The Numbers Don't Lie|url=https://www.podcast.co/inspire/podcasting-history|access-date=2021-03-22|website=Podcast.co|language=en}}
Notable guests
Previous guests in longform conversations have included Philip Roth, Noam Chomsky,
Jonathan Lethem, Orhan Pamuk, Cornel West, Harold Bloom, Matt Taibbi, Ha Jin, Paul Krugman, Gordon Wood, Joan Didion, Tim Berners-Lee, Gore Vidal, Megan Marshall, V. S. Naipaul, David Bromwich, John Mearsheimer, Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Sachs, Ralph Nader, Elizabeth Warren, Amartya Sen, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace and Edward Said.
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.radioopensource.org/ Radio Open Source]
- [https://www.prx.org/series/33777-open-source-with-christopher-lydon Open Source with Christopher Lydon] at PRX
- [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/ Christopher Lydon Interviews...]
- {{cite web
| url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2013/11/20/radio-talk-host-christopher-lydon-returns-wbur-after-year-absence/jLC042johF7aRALtnvWlNK/story.html
| title= After messy split from WBUR, Christopher Lydon returns
| author=Joseph P. Kahn
| date=2013-10-20
| publisher=The Boston Globe}}