Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Recording at 5pm EST so Mike Roylance can make it to his BSO concert tonight!] Three cheers for tubas. Tubas and...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Great Vibrations [paulgalipeau / Flickr] You may not know what a theremin is but you’ve no doubt listened to one. You’ve...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Cursive, foiled for good? [michgm / Flickr] A recent article in the Washington Post forecast the end of cursive. What was...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) It’s the entire spectrum of cooking, of eating, of life itself can be represented by the potato. Jim Leff Steamin’ Spud[Roboppy...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Errol Morris filming “Mr. Death” Photo: Nubar Alexanian] In our continuting series, Passion Thursday, Errol Morris on “Truth.” Errol Morris has...

24 MB MP3   It’s in limited edition, it’s doubble dipped, it’s high-end and low-carb: Candy. As part of our Passion Thursday series we’re planning to do a show on...

24 MB MP3 Exactly one year ago, birder E. Vernon Laux spotted the Red Footed Falcon on Martha’s Vineyard. It wasn’t so much the red feet that electrified the birding...

24 MB MP3 Lisa Williams (here’s her blog: H2Otown) sent us this show idea: “Knitting has made a huge resurgence among urban hipsters, who have meetups in towns and cities...

24 MB MP3 Only a person with a passion for poker could understand. The Texas Holdem trend and online possibilities have spawned a new generation of card sharks; there are...

24 MB MP3 …the entire output for Savile Row in a single year is only a couple of thousand suits… maybe five thousand, ten thousand, tops. This isn’t Burger King,...