Alternative Radio is an internationally syndicated, one-hour, weekly radio program, featuring serious interviews with humanitarian and progressive thinkers. Begun in 1986, it evolved from a program that journalist David Barsamian hosted on community radio station KGNU-FM, in Boulder, Colorado. AR is currently heard on more than 200 radio stations around the world. It is entirely self-funded through donations and sales of recordings of individual programs. All programs are archived; some are available for free download and the others for a $5.00 fee. CDs are also available.
Perhaps the best known of AR's programs have been Barsamian's series of interviews with dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky. Many of Barsamian's broadcast interviews have been published in book form. As of December 2009, archived program listings show about 400 individuals who have been either interviewed or were recorded lectures. Notable guests who have been interviewed include:
- Tariq Ali
- Jello Biafra
- Andrew Bacevich
- Lester Brown
- Robert Fisk
- George Galloway
- Amy Goodman
- Seymour Hersh
- Bill Moyers
- Arundhati Roy
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Howard Zinn
Famous quotes containing the words alternative and/or radio:
“It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage “There is no alternative to victory” retains a high degree of plausibility.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history. If any.”
—Barré Lyndon (1896–1972)