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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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Mohammad Fadel on Egypt in Crisis (lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 10/15/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
The Egyptian Revolution, which in early 2011 overthrew the decades-old Mubarak dictatorship, stirred the imagination of the world. The so-called Arab Spring was in full bloom. Anything seemed possible. The region's decrepit and feudal regimes were in danger of falling. Tahr... Read more

David Nibert Speaks on the Animal Industrial Complex

Airs at: Tue, 10/08/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
David Nibert, a former tenant organizer and community activist, is an award-winning writer and professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio. He is the author of Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of and Animal Oppression and Human Violence. Many have hear... Read more

Vandana Shiva - Food Security & GMOs (lecture)

Airs at: Tue, 10/01/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Vandana Shiva - Food Security & GMOs (lecture)Genetically modified organisms, GMOs have become hot button issues in more and more communities. GMOs are plants with altered DNA. Its proponents, large corporations like Monsanto, hail the technology as a revolutionary solution... Read more

Host David Barsamian speaks with documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak about Kashmir

Airs at: Tue, 09/24/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Sanjay Kak - Kashmir: Hell in Heaven (interview)Kashmir is spectacularly gorgeous but the travel magazine spreads and tourist brochures mask a less than heavenly reality. An ongoing conflict has taken the lives of tens of thousands of Kashmiris. The Himalayan region is divi... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/17/13

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Arundhati Roy on Women and Resistance (interview)During the worst years of the dirty war in Argentina, thousands of people were disappeared by the junta. In response, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was formed. Their weekly vigils demanding answers brought global attention to ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/10/13

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Victoria Banyard is professor of pyschology at the University of New Hampshire. Her articles on sexual violence prevention have appeared in leading scholarly journals. She has been a guest editor for numerous special journal issues on the theme of sexual violence, including... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/03/13

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Samantha Power on Genocide: A Problem from Hell (lecture) From Rwanda to Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of systematic state violence. In 1915 when Turkey sent its Armenian population on death marches into the desert, U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau denounced wha... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/27/13

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Barbara Ehrenreich speaks on Kicking People When They're Down (Recorded in Santa Fe, NM on March 13, 2013.)Barbara Ehrenreich is a social critic, journalist, and activist.  She received a PhD in cell biology from Rockefeller University. In the 1970’s, she was involved with ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/20/13

Airs at: Tue, 08/20/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Martin Luther King, Jr - Beyond Vietnam (lecture)Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of the 20th century's most enduring figures. He advocated and practiced civil disobedience and non-violence. He said, "Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi t... Read more

Alternative Radio on 08/13/13

Airs at: Tue, 08/13/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
Thomas Linzey is an attorney and co-founder and executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and serves as its chief legal counsel. He is the author of Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community. His work has been featured in the New Y... Read more