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Featured guest is bestselling science author, Stanford scientist and atheist Robert Sapolsky, with a lively discussion of primates, atheism, evolution and naturalistic explanations for the origin of religions. The show includes an update on the Foundation’s faith-based challenge, going before the Supreme Court, a song in homage to stem-cell research, and a look at fascinating freethought writers born in early February. The show is cohosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, who jointly direct the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Photo by Brent Nicastro (MP3, 52 min, 23.5 MB)
Freethought Radio’s featured guest is Feminist Majority president and 3-decade feminist activist Eleanor Smeal, previously named a Freethought Heroine” by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ellie discusses religion’s role in fighting the ERA, abortion rights and global human rights for women. The show features a brief “Theocracy Alert,” and honors Thomas Paine, whose birthdate is January 29. Song: “The World is My Country.” The weekly show is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Foundation co-presidents. (MP3, 51 min, 23.1 MB)”
Freethought Radio’s featured guest is Matthew Rothschild, atheist and editor of The Progressive Magazine. The show includes an update on FFRF’s faith-based lawsuit, and a look at who’s who this week in freethought. Co-hosts are Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. (MP3, 51 min, 23.1 MB)
Freethought Radio's featured guest is The Nation's sparkling columnist, Katha Pollitt, whose latest book is Virginity or Death! The show also includes a legal update and a look at many fascinating freethinkers born in January. The show is cohosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. Photo by Andrea Sperling (MP3, 57 min, 26 MB)
Freethought Radio's featured guest is Norm Allen, executive director of African Americans for Humanism, and editor of the anthology, African-American Humanism. The featured song: a delicious version of "It Ain't Necessarily So" sung by Sammie Davis Jr. Freethinker's Almanac looks at January-born freethinkers Zora Neale Hurston and Butterfly McQueen. Co-hosts are Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 48 min, 22.2 MB)
Evolutionary psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate”) talks about his atheism, hypothesizes about why religion exists and discusses his books. The show includes a look at the unorthodox Robert Burns, author of “Auld Lang Syne.” Theocracy Alert looks at the practice of swearing in politicians on the bible. (MP3, 49 min, 22.5 MB)”
Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Natalie Angier of the New York Times, a self-professed lonely atheist” and bestselling author, is the guest on Freethought Radio. Also features a new song by poet Philip Appleman, “Intelligent? Design?” arranged and performed by Dan Barker. The show takes a brief look at distinguished freethinkers born at the end of December. (MP3, 50 min, 22.8 MB)”
The theme of this show is the Winter Solstice, and features an interview with Tom Flynn, author of The Trouble with Christmas,” and the song, “Solstice Tribute,” by Dan Barker. As Freethought Radio’s solstice treat for listeners, the show includes an excerpt from Julia Sweeney’s “Letting Go of God” one-woman play, in which the comedian reads the bible and discovers it isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Freethinkers Almanac features songwriter Jay Gorney (“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”), and includes a rare song by by blacklisted Gorney celebrating the Bill of Rights, recorded by freethinker Paul Robeson. (MP3, 49 min, 22,4 MB)”
Features an interview with Steve Benson, Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Republic, and Mormon-turned-atheist. The hosts discuss the Foundation’s annual Winter Solstice sign at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and report on the Foundation’s lawsuit challenging the creation of the faith-based office at the White House, to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. It is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, who are co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Photo by Steve Benson (MP3, 51 min, 23.1 MB)
