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The Best of Talk 2011 Archive



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The Best of Talk
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1/1/11Neil Shubin: Discovering how Fish Evolved to Walk: The Story of Tiktaalik 57:112/9/0812/23/08a
1/8/11 Shawn Peters: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law 1:01:297/13/086/1/09b
1/15/11 Peter Phippen's Song of the Soul 58:003/15/096/5/09c
1/22/11 John Shelby Spong 1:10:108/21/055/26/09d
1/29/11 Salman Rushdie & Cultural Humanism 1:01:405/2/076/29/09e
2/5/11Dale McGowan: Parenting beyond belief - raising ethical kids without religion 33:141/4/092/18/09f
2/19/11Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: A Post-election Challenge for Progressives 59:3511/7/0811/28/08g
2/26/11Democracy Now! from the WI state Capitol59:162/25/112/25/11h
3/5/11S.A. Kouddous & Amy Goodman: Uprisings: from the Middle East to the Midwest - pt 21:17:462/24/11nowi
3/12/11The role of non-corporate media in Wisconsin28:003/4/113/5/11j
3/26/11 Media & the Wisconsin Labor Struggle: Countering Myths & Distortions - pt 11:00:143/3/113/12/11i
4/2/11 Media & the Wisconsin Labor Struggle: Countering Myths & Distortions - pt 244:293/3/113/19/11i
4/9/11 Farmer & Union Solidarity - Tony Schultz 55:003/27/113/29/11d
4/16/11Dave Johnson: The crisis in Japan 28:063/24/114/1/11k
4/23/11 Rev. Jane Esbensen: Whatever Happened to the 60's? 16:323/13/113/23/11l
4/30/11Tammy Baldwin, Dennis Kucinich: Speak Out for Workers Rights - pt 2 1:00:543/12/114/22/11m
5/7/11 Rev. Jane Esbensen: The Ground of Our Being 33:084/17/114/27/11l
5/21/11 Cecil Bothwell, an elected atheist tells us his story 46:595/4/111/23/11n
5/28/11Lisa Graves, Ed Garvey: Speak Out for Workers Rights - pt 1 52:303/12/114/8/11m
6/4/11 Barbara Park: Singing the First 100 Years of Universalism 35:555/22/115/25/11l
6/11/11 Amitabh Pal: Islam Means Peace 53:045/23/116/1/11o
6/18/11Thom Hartmann speaks to thousands in Baraboo, WI at Fighting Bob Fest on 9/11/10 24:319/14/106/4/11p
6/25/11David R. Obey (D - WI) at Fighting Bob Fest on 9/11/10 25:259/14/106/11/11p
7/2/11Remembering Three Political Pioneers: Midge Miller, Lea Zeldin, and Rebecca Young 50:144/26/096/17/11q
7/9/11Proud Theater Comes "Full Circle"; Perfect Harmony Chorus Celebrates Civil Rts; Colombia Support Network showcases human rights 46:405/17/097/1/11q
7/16/11 Howard Bellman: Collective Bargaining for Government Workers in Wisconsin: The Challenge of Democracy in the Workplace 37:216/19/116/29/11l
7/23/11 Jeff Sharlet's revelations about "The Family" and its fundamentalist new world order ambitions 1:03:456/5/116/13/11b
7/30/11 Sex and Secularism 1:01:336/22/117/4/11r
8/6/11John Nichols, Rep. Mike Capuano, Eve Weinbaum, Michael Lighty: From Madison to Massachusetts: How the Fight to Defend Worker Rigts is Ushering in a New Political Era 56:174/10/115/14/11s
8/13/11 Fred Edwords: Shining the Light of Reason 1:01:583/24/113/28/11r
8/20/11 Fred Edwords: The United Coalition of Reason billboard and bus ad campaigns 1:03:174/3/114/18/11b
8/27/11 Amanda Metskas: Camp Quest Summer Camp 59:427/25/074/13/09e
9/3/11 Fred Edwords: A Humanist Look at Myth, Symbol, and Art 37:524/3/114/25/11l
9/10/11Edward O. Wilson Science Rock Star49:2820088/26/11t
9/17/11 Soglin; KEYNOTE by Tom Hayden (introduced by Ben Manski)56:128/24/119/10/11u
9/24/11Ray McGovern interview28:579/12/119/16/11v
10/1/11The Prince of Evolution1:00:009/11/119/23/11w
10/8/11Doug Lafollette interview39:419/17/119/24/11x
10/15/11Tom Hayden interview28:579/19/119/23/11v
10/22/11Dennis Kucinich at kickoff for Fighting Bob Fest 2011 at the Barrymore Theatre23:229/16/1110/8/11y
10/29/11Dan Ferber: Changing Planet1:00:0010/2/1110/21/11w
11/5/11 Guests: High school state/church activists Jessica Ahlquist and Harrison Hopkins 41:50 10/22/1110/27/11z
11/19/11Mike McCabe interview49:0810/21/1110/29/11x
11/26/11Leah Bolger, Ray McGovern: The Military-Industrial-Media Complex - pt II35:058/26/1110/22/11u
12/10/11Sam Pizzigati: Editor of Too Much38:5611/18/1111/26/11x
12/17/11John Anderson, Patrick Waring, Frank Emspak, Sara Schulz: Building a Community-Driven Media Organization - pt I 1:02:568/27/1111/12/11u
12/24/11John Anderson, Patrick Waring, Frank Emspak, Sara Schulz: Building a Community-Driven Media Organization - pt II 1:13:328/27/1111/19/11u
12/31/11Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism 54:4512/19/1112/23/11o

a Lecture given at UW-Madison Darwin Day 2008.
b Recording of Humanist Union of Madison program.
c Song Of The Soul from Northern Spirit Radio, Eau Claire WI.
d Spirit In Action from Northern Spirit Radio, Eau Claire WI.
e Podcast from Humanist Network News
f Platform address at The Ethical Society of St. Louis.
g Talk sponsored by The Madison Institute.
h Democracy Now!.
i Recorded by WORT at the Orpheum Theatre on State Street in Madison.
j CounterSpin from Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.
k From Health Writers on the Air, WORT-FM.
l Recorded at Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society Meeting House in Madison.
m Recorded at the Barrymore Theatre by WORT-FM.
n Frostcall podcast.
o From A Public Affair, WORT-FM.
p Talk at Fighting Bob Fest 2010, from ontheearthproduction.
q From John Quinlan's Forward Forum archives.
r Humanist Hour from the American Humanist Association.
s Audio from YouTube video of ontheearthproduction.
t From Arizona State University's Ask A Biologist with Dr. Biology.
u Recorded at the 2011 Democracy Convention in Madison by WIDE-LP.
v Progressive Radio interview by Matt Rothschild.
w Skeptically Speaking program from CJSR, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
x Excerpt from The Sara Schulz Show.
y Audio from YouTube video of CESAWCER, Paul Baker.
z Freethought Radio podcast from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

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