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	<title>Radio Open Source</title>
	<link>http://www.radioopensource.org</link>
	<description>Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics</description>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (24): Eli Marienthal&#8217;s Spoken-Word Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Eli Marienthal (15 min, 7 mb mp3)

Eli Marienthal&#8217;s Haiti story is about a little-boy obsession with his Haitian twin, met on the first of many trips to Haiti to visit his father. The earthquake this winter seems to have jolted loose his fixation, toward insight and action.
Eli is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/eli-marienthal/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (23): Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell&#8217;s Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell (24 min, xxxxx mb mp3)
 &#8220;Looking in&#8221; by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell is an oil almost six feet wide, in the collection of Partners in Health.
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell is a Haitian-American artist in prose, paint and poetry.  She speaks to us a poem about the January earthquake, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/marilene_phipps-kettlewell/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (22): Peace-Poet Fred Marchant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Fred Marchant (17 min, 8 mb mp3)
Fred Marchant approaches the unspeakable horror and loss of life in the Haiti earthquake with a gingerly air of obligation.  It&#8217;s the poet&#8217;s job, he says, to find words and speak them.  His instructions came from his teacher of old, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/fred_marchant/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (21): Afaa Michael Weaver on Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Afaa Michael Weaver (20 min, 9 mb mp3)

Afaa Michael Weaver leads off a week of poets&#8217; reflections on the catastrophe in Haiti.  His poem &#8220;Port-au-Prince&#8221; is not &#8220;news analysis;&#8221; it&#8217;s a stab at fitting disaster news, now two months old, into a context between heart and history. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-21-afaa-michael-weaver-on-haiti/</link>
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		<title>This &#8220;Year of India&#8221; (5): &#8230; and the chronic crisis of Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Farzana Shaikh (38 min, 17 mb mp3)
Salman Rushdie, no less, finished his packed public talk at Brown three weeks ago with the observation that Pakistan is the globe&#8217;s true nightmare nation &#8212; that if Pakistan doesn&#8217;t rescue itself from political collapse into extremism, &#8220;we&#8217;re all fucked.&#8221; In this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-5-and-the-chronic-crisis-of-pakistan/</link>
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		<title>Thomas Y. Levin: &#8220;surveillent narcissism&#8221; and other digital doubts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s classroom conversation with Thomas Y. Levin (32 min, 19 mb mp3)

Advertising confirms Thomas Levin&#8217;s observation that, strange to tell, we have come to embrace Orwell&#8217;s worst nightmare in 1984, universal electronic surveillance.  A Kenneth Cole billboard in Manhattan makes the unembarrassed point that &#8220;On an average day you will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/thomas-y-levin-surveillent-narcissism-and-other-digital-doubts/</link>
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		<title>This &#8220;Year of India&#8221; (4): The NY Times&#8217; Man in Bombay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Anand Giridharadas (45 min, 27 mb mp3)
We&#8217;re getting a personal take on the New India that we haven&#8217;t heard before from New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas. When he went &#8220;home&#8221; after college, from Cleveland to the land of his ancestors, the feeling he confronted was, in effect, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/anand_giridharadas/</link>
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		<title>Tom Gleason&#8217;s Liberal Education: Memoir with Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Tom Gleason (43 min, 26 mb mp3)
Call this a musical-conversational extension on the memoir of a beloved teacher, the historian of Russia at Brown University, Abbott Gleason, known as Tom.  We’re connecting dots from Tolstoy to Orwell to Louis Armstrong in a big roomful of friends at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/tom-gleasons-liberal-education-memoir-with-music/</link>
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		<title>Yehudi Wyner&#8217;s life in music: a composer with piano hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Yehudi Wyner (55 min, 33 mb mp3)

 Yehudi Wyner is an approachable guy in a forbidding field: contemporary &#8220;serious&#8221; music.  He gives us an opening here to ask where new sounds come from.  In his case new music comes out of a sort of compost of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/yehudi-wyners-life-in-music-composer-with-piano-hands/</link>
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		<title>Ghana Speaks (V): The Radio Voices of Cape Coast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Mike Serwornoo (15 min, 9 mb mp3)

 An underlying question through this experimental week in Ghana is: what more would it take to podcast conversations as direct as these from India, or Israel, or the West Bank?  Or China, or Congo, for that matter?
Mike Serwornoo, in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaks-v-the-radio-voices-of-cape-coast/</link>
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		<title>Ghana Speaks (IV): &#8230; and Koo Nimo plays guitar and sings</title>
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Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s visit with Koo Nimo (60 minutes, 36 meg mp3)
It is 7:30 a.m. on the last Saturday in January, a warm winter morning in Ghana, and we are privileged to be hanging out for an hour of music and a few well-chosen words with a aristocrat of sound and four accompanists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaks-iv-and-koo-nimo-plays-guitar-and-sings/</link>
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		<title>Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam&#8217;s Model of African Self-Sufficiency</title>
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Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s visit with Dr. Kofi Sam to the village of Aburanza (28 minutes, 17 meg mp3)
We are making the full village rounds here in Aburanza, near Cape Coast, with a strong-minded, strong-willed modern chief.  From furniture works to dress-making class to palm-nut oil pots, Dr. Kofi Sam is barking out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaking-kofi-sams-model-of-african-self-sufficiency/</link>
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		<title>Ghana Speaking (II): Village Living in Kwabeng</title>
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Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s visit to Kwabeng with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang (31 minutes, 19 meg mp3)
I&#8217;m going &#8220;home&#8221; here with my friend Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang to &#8220;where my belly button is buried,&#8221; to the seat of his fondest memories and his first great love, his grandmother.  And I&#8217;m concluding presumptuously, on a day&#8217;s visit, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaking-village-living-in-kwabeng/</link>
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		<title>Ghana Speaking (I): The &#8220;living wound&#8221; at Cape Coast Castle</title>
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Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang (30 minutes, 18 meg mp3)
I&#8217;m in Ghana for a week &#8212; starting from Cape Coast, toward the western end of Ghana&#8217;s Atlantic shore.  Cape Coast is a university town and a major fishing center in West Africa.  It&#8217;s the spot where First Lady Michelle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaking-the-living-wound-at-cape-coast-castle/</link>
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		<title>McChesney and Nichols: $30-billion to save journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Robert McChesney and John Nichols (56 minutes, 26 meg mp3)
Robert McChesney and John Nichols are grappling with the question: what would Thomas Jefferson do about the death of the American newspaper?  Better, Jefferson said, to have newspapers without a government than to have government without newspapers.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/mcchesney-and-nichols-30-billion-to-save-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Harold Evans and his &#8220;rag and bone men of the opinion trade&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Harold Evans (41 minutes, 19 meg mp3)

Harold Evans, doubtless the finest English newspaper editor of his time, could make you weep in his memoir of formative days in Manchester and glory years (1965 &#8211; 1981) with the Sunday Times of London.  Weep, that is, not so much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/harold-evans-and-his-rag-and-bone-men-of-the-opinion-trade/</link>
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		<title>Rebecca Goldstein&#8217;s Ontological Urge: the 36 Arguments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Rebecca Goldstein (36 minutes, 22 meg mp3)
Who knew that the God question is burning bright in our university neighborhood of brain scientists, mathematicians, computer geniuses, game theorists, physicists and literary folk, too? &#8212; that is, in the postmodern precincts around Boston that I call &#8220;the frontal lobe of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/rebecca-goldsteins-36-arguments-the-ontological-urge/</link>
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		<title>Erica Hirshler&#8217;s Biography of a Masterpiece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Erica Hirshler (26 minutes, 12 meg mp3)

Click here for a high resolution JPEG of the painting.
Erica Hirshler and I are standing in many shades of awe in this conversation, in front of Boston&#8217;s favorite painting by Boston&#8217;s favorite painter.  Hirshler&#8217;s compact little book, Sargent&#8217;s Daughters: The Biography [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/erica-hirshlers-biography-of-a-masterpiece/</link>
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		<title>Terry Teachout&#8217;s Pops: Culture-Changing Genius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Terry Teachout (57 minutes, 26 meg mp3)

Terry Teachout&#8217;s fine reconsideration of the man called “Pops” solidifies Louis Armstrong&#8217;s standing as not just the greatest horn player since the angel Gabriel, but an all-transforming artist at the level of James Joyce or even Shakespeare, and a black American freedom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/terry-teachouts-pops-culture-changing-genius/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (20): Rick Benjamin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Rick Benjamin. (38 minutes, 18 meg mp3)

Rick Benjamin says the threshold instruction of most good poems is: slow down, be alert, wake up.  The reason to write poetry is to be of use, he says.  The reason to read poetry is that it might change your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-20-rick-benjamin/</link>
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		<title>Robin Kelley&#8217;s Transcendental Thelonious Monk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Robin Kelley (51 min, 24 meg mp3)

Robin Kelley&#8217;s superb biography brings the Thelonious Monk story back from the ragged edge to the creative center of American music.  And it brings my reading year to a blessedly loving, gorgeously swinging, dissonant, modernist, and utterly one-off climactic note.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/robin-kelleys-transcendental-thelonious-monk/</link>
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		<title>Gordon Wood: Empire and Liberty, then and now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Gordon Wood (27 minutes, mp3)
Gordon Wood, the wonderfully plain-spoken Pulitzer and Bancroft prize historian at Brown, thinks that Thomas Jefferson would find Barack Obama obnoxiously, over-reachingly Hamiltonian&#8230; and that Alexander Hamilton would likewise dismiss Obama as a Jeffersonian dreamer.

Empire of Liberty is the title of Gordon Wood’s magisterial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/gordon-wood-on-empire-and-liberty/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (19): Andrew Motion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Andrew Motion. (23 minutes, 11 meg mp3)

Sir Andrew Motion succeeded Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson and, immediately, Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense too, on matters from Princess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-19-andrew-motion/</link>
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		<title>Orhan Pamuk and his Museum: This is your brain on novels&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Orhan Pamuk. (28 minutes, 13 mb mp3)

Orhan Pamuk in his six Norton Lectures at Harvard this fall filled the air with ideas about fiction.  &#8220;The novel is not about the characters but about their world,&#8221; for example, part of the reason that Pamuk has never titled a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/orhan-pamuk-and-his-museum-this-is-your-brain-on-novels/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (18): Keith Waldrop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Keith Waldrop. (23 minutes, 11 meg mp3)

Keith Waldrop, who just won the National Book Award in poetry for his Transcendental Studies, is a quilter in phrases.  He eschews any intention or meaning that you could point to in his work. He makes statements here and there, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-18-keith-waldrop/</link>
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		<title>This &#8220;Year of India&#8221; (3): Suketu Mehta, Bombay&#8217;s Biographer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Suketu Mehta. (37 minutes, 17 mb mp3)

Suketu Mehta, the master storyteller of modern Bombay, learned by listening &#8212; to the runaway poet from Bihar, for example, who wanted him to write a book titled &#8220;Untold Stories&#8221; or &#8220;Untellable Stories,&#8221; like his own.  
He was a boy of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-3-suketu-mehta-bombays-biographer/</link>
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		<title>This &#8220;Year of India&#8221; (2): Rana Dasgupta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Rana Dasgupta. (45 minutes, 21 mb mp3)

Rana Dasgupta&#8217;s India is a land of grueling poverty still, in a culture transfixed by glittering wealth.  The dominant mood is &#8220;frenzied accumulation&#8221; in a society &#8220;consumed both by euphoria and dread.&#8221; Mahatma Gandhi’s India of fond memory &#8212; triumphant non-violence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (17): Henri Cole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Henri Cole. (42 minutes, 19 mb mp3)

The poet Henri Cole got his French first name from his Armenian mother.  From his father, a military man, he got his Southern speech and, in what sounds like sadness and irony, “a knack for solitude.”  Poetry was the place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-17-henri-cole/</link>
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		<title>Whose Words These Are (16): Nick Baker&#8217;s Chowder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to listen to Chris&#8217;s conversation with Nicholson Baker. (49 minutes, 23 mb mp3)
Nicholson Baker bursts into our poetry series with a passion for form, a longing for four-beat rhythms a la Kipling and rhymes of the kind that Ira Gershwin and Dr. Seuss learned from Swinburne.  For a couple of months now we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-nick-bakers-paul-chowder/</link>
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		<title>Mary Karr on Girls and their Dragons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Karr, the poet and ever the &#8220;scrappy little beast,&#8221; gives me three more reasons to marvel, and cherish her, in her third memoir.  Lit, after The Liars&#8217; Club and Cherry, is the story of drinking her way to Catholicism, sobriety and more writing.  Her title refers, she says, to the things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radioopensource.org/mary-karr-on-girls-and-their-dragons/</link>
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