Freethought Radio

By Freedom From Religion Foundation

A weekly show, broadcast live from Madison, Wis., on 92.1 FM, Saturdays 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents, Freedom From Religion Foundation. Slightly irre... more

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How many episodes does Freethought Radio have?

The podcast currently has 1,007 episodes available.

Freethought Radio episodes:

October 13, 2007 Special Guests: Ron Reagan & Emma Martens
An interview with Ron Reagan about his atheism. Reagan, a radio host
and TV commentator, is the son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Also
featuring 17 year old Emma Martens, a high school senior who is leading
a walkout of students in Boulder, Colo., to protest "under God" in the
Pledge of Allegiance. And a discussion about the Freethought
Renaissance--how unbelief and atheism are increasing in the United
States and its popular culture. (MP3, 37 min, 33.8 MB)
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October 06, 2007 Special Guest: Christopher Hitchens
Freethought Radio's featured guest is Christopher Hitchens,
author of the bestselling "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons
Everything." Freethought Radio is the first nationally-broadcast radio
show from the secular point of view! Freethought Radio broadcasts
weekly. The show offers programming for nonreligious listeners, as well
as countering the religious-right domination of our public airwaves.
Freethought Radio features a regular "Theocracy Alert," Dan's "Pagan
Pulpit," "Freethinkers Almanac," music and interviews with authors and
activists. (MP3, 38 min, 34.7 MB)
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September 29, 2007 Special Guest: Debra Sweet, Social Activist
Debra Sweet, whose statement to Pres. Nixon as a 19-year-old
made international headlines, talks about her continuing activism with
the groups Refuse & Resist, and World Can't Wait, both of which are
concerned with attacks on the separation between church and state. The
show also marks the birthdate of celebrated composer George Gershwin,
and airs a current "Theocracy Alert." (MP3, 50 min, 45.7 MB)
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50min
September 22, 2007 Special Guests: Senator Ernie Chambers & Teacher Alan Ginsberg
Two timely guests: Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers talks about his slightly tongue-in-cheek lawsuit, Chambers v. God, commanding headlines this week! And schoolteacher Alan Ginsberg,
who teaches third grade in Madison, Wis., talks about the complaint he
and the Freedom From Religion Foundation have launched over the
distribution of "Jesus Flyers" in Madison public schools. (MP3, 44 min,
40.8 MB)
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45min
September 15, 2007 Atheist Author Jim Haught
Jim Haught, author of Holy Hatred, Holy Horror, Honest Doubt:
Essays on Atheist and editor in chief of the Charleston Gazette, W.Va.,
is the guest. There is an important announcement about Freethought
Radio going national, and a clip of comedian Kathy Griffin, whose
irreverent remarks were censored at some of the Emmy awards. The show
also features Irving Berlin's revue song from the 1920s, "Pack Up Your
Bags and Go to the Devil in Hades." (MP3, 55 min, 50.3 MB)
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55min
September 08, 2007 Christianization of U.S. Military
Freethought Radio interviews Mikey Weinstein, the retired Air
Force attorney who has formed the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
to fight high-ranking evangelism in the military. The show covers
recent exposes his group has uncovered, including the filming of a
video for the Christian Embassy at the Pentagon, "soul saving" by a
ministry group in a Pentagon commons, and halting a Pentagon plan to
help distribute the "Left Behind" videogame to all soldiers in Iraq.
The show also marsk the birthdate of H.L. Mencken, and broadcast
"Reincarnation," words by cowboy poet Wallace D. MacRae, music by Dan
Barker. (MP3, 47 min, 42.9 MB)
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47min
September 01, 2007 Faith-based Abstinence Boondoggle
Freethought Radio features veteran investigative reporter Michael Reynolds,
author of "Abstinence Gluttons," The Nation Magazine, June 2007. The
show also features some timely news updates and commentary. (MP3, 49
min, 22.4 MB)
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50min
August 25, 2007 America Is Not A Christian Nation
Freethought Radio features southern secular activist Ed Buckner, Ph.D.,
talking about how to combat the myth that America is a Christian
nation. Ed has a chapter in the new book, "Everything You Knew About
God Is Wrong." The show also features some timely news updates and
commentary. (MP3, 51 min, 23.5 MB)
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52min
August 18, 2007 Religion Writer Loses Religion
Dan and Annie Laurie Gaylor interview Bill Lobdell, whose
page-one article for the Los Angeles Times in July announced he is
retiring from the Los Angeles Times religion page because his beat
turned him into an atheist. The show also covers developments exposing
the Christianization of the U.S. military, and advance word on a major
legal victory for the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 53 min,
24.1 MB)
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53min
August 11, 2007 When God Sanctions Violence
Freethought Radio features an interview with Prof. Brad J. Bushman,
of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, about his
studies linking religious belief and scriptural reading with violence.
The show reports on the related attack this week upon atheist author
Taslima Nasrin by Muslim lawmakers in Hyperabad, India. The show,
airing on the birthdate of Robert G. Ingersoll, takes a look at this
19th century freethinker's illustrious life. A new song, "Adrift on a
Star," words by the lyricist Yip Harburg ("Somewhere Over the
Rainbow"), music by Dan Barker, debuts. The weekly show is hosted by
Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From
Religion Foundation. (MP3, 50 min, 22,8 MB)
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50min

FAQs about Freethought Radio:

How many episodes does Freethought Radio have?

The podcast currently has 1,007 episodes available.

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