Alternative Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 11/11/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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.

http://www.alternativeradio.org

Topic tags:

Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

Stephen Bezruchka on In Sickness & in Wealth

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Stephen Bezruchka is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. He worked for many years as an emergency physician in Seattle. His particular areas of research are population health and societal hierarchy. He has spent over 10 ... Read more

Nader Hashemi – The Broken Politics of the Middle East

Airs at: Tue, 05/31/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Nader Hashemi is Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and teaches Middle East and Islamic politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. His articles appear in leading newspapers, journals and magazines. He is the a... Read more

John Kiriakou – The War on Whistleblowers

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

John Kiriakou is a former CIA agent who was indicted on three counts of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. He served almost two years in prison. He is featured in the documentary Silenced. He is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, and a blogger f... Read more

Rami Khouri speaks on Arab Jails & American Jets

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The book The Management of Savagery is a teaching manual of the so-called Islamic State, aka ISIS. It defines the techniques of deploying terror. The book outlines how a group of militants could seize land and establish their own self-governing Islamic state. It lays ... Read more

Bill McKibben on Breaking Away from Fossil Fuels

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Bill McKibben was one of the first to sound the alarm on climate change with his bestselling book The End of Nature. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, he is a leading environmental activist. His other books include The Age of Missing Information, Hope, Hum... Read more

Thomas Frank on Hey Liberal, Listen Up

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The ironies, agonies and hypocrisies in the U.S. political system are in high-relief during a presidential election year. The role of big money undermines the integrity of one person, one vote. The state of the electoral infrastructure, almost laughable, is a national... Read more

Noam Chomsky – Toward a Better Society

Airs at: Tue, 04/26/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

I’m often asked about Noam Chomsky. How did I connect with the legendary MIT professor? Very simply, I wrote him a letter around 1980 and to my surprise he responded. A correspondence ensued. We did our first interview in 1984. Two years after that I decided to launc... Read more