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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.



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Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
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Program status: 
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Noam Chomsky - Elections & Voting

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one index he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato and Freud. The legendary MIT professor practically invented modern linguistic... Read more

David Daley – Gerrymandering: Tilting Elections

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Gerrymandering. The word was coined after the redrawing of election districts by Governor Gerry in Massachusetts in 1812. He signed a bill that benefited his party. One of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a salamander. How d... Read more

Ari Rabin Havt – Liars, Lying & Politics

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Ari Rabin-Havt is host of The Agenda, a national radio show on SiriusXM. His articles appear in USA Today, The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, and The American Prospect. He co-authored The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine and Lie... Read more

Dave Zirin – Racism, Resistance & Black Athletes

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Dave Zirin is sports editor for The Nation magazine and host ofEdge of Sports Podcast. He is the author of many books includingThe John Carlos Story, What’s My Name, Fool?, A People’s History of Sports in the United States, Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sport... Read more

Ralph Nader – Progressive Matters, Part two of a two-part program

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The discontent in the U.S. is more than palpable. Income and wealth inequality continue to soar. The middle class is getting hammered. Fifty million are poor. Americans are disheartened about the nation’s course. According to a new Gallup poll 82% of voters believe th... Read more

Ralph Nader – Progressive Matters (Part 1 of a 2-part program)

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The discontent in the U.S. is more than palpable. Income and wealth inequality continue to soar. The middle class is getting hammered. Fifty million are poor. Americans are disheartened about the nation’s course. According to a new Gallup poll 82% of voters believe th... Read more

David Korten on A New Story

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
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  David Korten was an insider in the development establishment for several decades. He worked for the Ford Foundation and USAID and taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business. Having severed his ties to the past, today he is a leading voice for economic ... Read more

Vandana Shiva – We Are All Seeds

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. She's a physicist, scholar, social activist and feminist. She is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi. Sh... Read more

Thomas Frank on What's the Matter with the Democratic Party?

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Thomas Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler magazine. He is the author of What's the Matter with Kansas? The Wrecking Crew, Pity the Billionaire and Listen, Liberal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt must be flipping in his grave as many of his cherished New Deal prog... Read more

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – Black Lives Matter

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her articles appear in CounterPunch, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Jacobin, International Socialist Review and The Guardian. She is the author ... Read more