Alternative Radio

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A weekly one-hour progressive radio show featuring lectures & interviews with progressive thinkers.


Every Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.



Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. It is produced by David Barsamian in Boulder, Colorado.



Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.



Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

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Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 01/21/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Richard Heinberg - Endless Consumption: The Party's Over (lecture) Richard Heinberg, author, journalist and educator, is a leading expert on energy issues. He is Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of "The Party's Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industr... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/19/09

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Irene Khan speaks Poverty, Women & Human Rights  Irene Khan is the first woman, first Asian and first Muslim to head Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights organization. She has led AI through developments in the wake of September 11, confronting the back... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 01/14/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
The late Philip Agee speaks on "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" Philip Agee was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who served in Latin America. He wrote, "When I joined the CIA I believed in the need for its existence." After 12 years with the agency I finally under... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 01/07/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Robert Fisk - War Reporting (lecture) Robert Fisk, based in Beirut, is the Middle East correspondent for "The Independent." He is winner of the Amnesty International UK Press Award and the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. The "Financial Times" calls him "one of the outsta... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/05/09

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Chris Hedges speaks on "Empire of Illusion"  Chris Hedges reported for "The New York Times" for more than a decade. Before that he worked for "The Christian Science Monitor" and National Public Radio. He has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 12/31/2008 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Kevin Phillips - Swimming with the Sharks: The U.S. Economy Kevin Phillips was chief political analyst for the 1968 Republican presidential campaign, which culminated in the victory of Richard Nixon.  Phillips also was partly responsible for the design of the Republican "So... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 12/24/2008 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Benjamin Barber speaks on Runaway Capitalism (lecture) Benjamin Barber is a well-known scholar and political theorist. He is the author of many books including the bestseller Jihad vs. McWorld. His latest book is Consumed: The Fate of Citizens under Capitalism Triumphant.   Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 12/17/2008 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Host David Barsamian interviews the late Studs Terkel - Which Side Are You On?, Part 2 Historian Howard Zinn says, "You can't be neutral on a moving train." Indeed, in a time of crisis you can't sit on the fence and wait for others to make the decisions for you. An engaged ... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Produced for Alternative Radio
Studs Terkel on "Which Side Are You On?, pt 1" Historian Howard Zinn says, "You can't be neutral on a moving train." Indeed, in a time of crisis you can't sit on the fence and wait for others to make the decisions for you. An engaged citizenry is the essence of democracy... Read more

Alternative Radio

Airs at: Wed, 12/03/2008 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Noam Chomsky on International Terrorism - An AR Classic Lecture in honor of Noam Chomsky's 80th birthday on December 7th. Noam Chomsky, internationally renowned MIT professor, practically invented modern linguistics. In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has b... Read more