Saturday 10 am  
The Best of Talk | 
Broadcast Date
 | Program Click below to listen online. (High speed connection recommended.)
 | Length | Creation Date | First WIDE Broadcast | Source Note
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| 1/7/12 | Neil Shubin: Discovering how Fish Evolved to Walk: The Story of Tiktaalik | 
57:11 | 2/9/08 | 12/23/08 | a | 
| 1/14/12 | Lawrence Lessig: Republic Lost | 33:36 | 12/23/11 | 1/6/12 | b | 
| 1/21/12 | 
America Beyond Capitalism - Gar Alperovitz | 
55:00 | 1/1/12 | 1/17/12 | c | 
| 1/28/12 | Eugenie Scott: Evolution and Politics | 1:00:00 | 11/11/11 | 11/25/11 | d | 
| 2/4/12 | Dave Obey Interview | 28:56 | 1/30/12 | 1/31/12 | e | 
| 2/11/12 | Thom Hartmann at Fighting Bob Fest 2010 in Baraboo on 9/11/10 | 24:31 | 9/14/10 | 6/4/11 | f | 
| 2/18/12 | Jim Hightower at Fighting Bob Fest 2011 in Madison | 22:46 | 9/17/11 | 1/21/12 | f | 
| 2/25/12 | Sarah Mathews, David Kroll: Fungi & "Fossils" | 1:00:00 | 2/3/12 | 2/17/12 | d | 
| 3/3/12 | Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig discusses super PACs and our democracy | 32:47 | 2/23/12 | 3/2/12 | b | 
| 3/10/12 | 
Patrick Farabaugh: Becoming an LGBT Advocate
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33:38 | 2/12/12 | 2/22/12 | g | 
| 3/17/12 | Steve Busalacchi: Money in Politics | 42:29 | 2/3/12 | 2/18/12 | h | 
 
| 3/24/12 | Sean Faircloth: Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All  - And What We Can Do About It
 | 31:57 | 2/29/12 | 3/8/12 | b | 
| 3/31/12 | John Nichols interview by Matt Rothschild | 28:56 | 3/5/12 | 3/24/12 | e | 
| 4/7/12 | Russ Feingold: While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era
 | 34:14 | 3/19/12 | 3/29/12 | b | 
| 4/14/12 | 
The Reason Rally | 48:12 | 3/30/12 | 4/2/12 | i | 
| 4/21/12 | 
Craig and Cindy Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie.
 | 28:56 | 4/9/12 | 4/10/12 | e | 
| 4/28/12 | 
Sean Faircloth: One Nation Under the Constitution
 | 1:15:54 | 9/12/09 | 9/28/09 | j | 
| 5/5/12 | 
Oriol Mirosa: The Global Politics of Water: Managing Our Most Precious Resource in the 21st Century | 
38:34 | 3/25/12 | 4/18/12 | g | 
| 5/12/12 | 
Kate Lovelady: In Defense of Smut
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29:27 | 3/11/12 | 5/9/12 | k | 
| 5/19/12 | 
Tom Barrett, ALEC and MacIver Institute
 | 
49:54 | 4/27/12 | 4/28/12 | l | 
| 5/26/12 | John Nichols: Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street | 
31:46 | 3/8/12 | 4/7/12 | b | 
| 6/2/12 | Lori Compas Scott Fitzgerald Debate |  
54:49 | 5/23/11 | 5/26/12 | m | 
 
| 6/9/12 | Thom Hartmann at the Tenth Annual Fighting Bob Fest in Madison | 20:48 | 9/17/11 | 1/21/12 | f | 
 
| 6/16/12 | Timothy Noah: The Great Divergence | 
32:45 | 6/8/12 | 6/15/12 | b | 
| 6/23/12 | Tom Hayden: The Port Huron Statement at 50 | 57:51 | 5/3/12 | 6/9/12 | n | 
 
| 6/30/12 | Amy Goodman: Uprising in Wisconsin | 
47:17 | 2/25/11 | 6/23/12 | o | 
| 7/7/12 | 
Bob Park & Dan Proud: Putting Your Faith in Action | 
33:56 | 6/17/12 | 7/4/12 | g | 
| 7/14/12 | Skill Building: Port Huron, 50 Years On with Paul Buhle and Tom Hayden at the Democracy Convention | 55:57 | 8/25/11 | 6/30/12 | n | 
 
| 7/21/12 | Dale McGowan: Parenting Beyond Belief |  
35:01 | 4/29/12 | 5/26/12 | p | 
| 8/4/12 | Elliott Sober: Some Questions for Atheists to Think About |  
27:41 | 4/27/12 | 6/2/12 | p | 
| 8/11/12 | Hugh Sinclair: Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic; Dennis Marker: Fifteen Steps to Corporate Feudalism | 
54:30 | 7/16/12 | 7/20/12 | q | 
| 8/18/12 | Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control | 28:55 | 8/6/12 | 8/7/12 | e | 
| 8/25/12 | 
Freethought Radio guest: Greta Christina
 | 42:43 | 8/11/12 | 8/23/12 | r | 
| 9/1/12 | 
Mel White: Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality | 
55:00 | 8/26/12 | 8/28/12 | c | 
| 9/8/12 | 
John Dickert and Rebecca Kemble on impact of state budget cuts
 | 
54:57 | 8/24/12 | 8/25/12 | l | 
| 9/15/12 | Zach Wahls: My Two Moms | 
30:38 | 8/9/12 | 8/24/12 | b | 
| 9/22/12 | Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan and scholar of the Middle East | 28:56 | 9/17/12 | 9/18/12 | e | 
| 9/29/12 | Jim Hightower, publisher of the Hightower Lowdown, and legendary populist and humorist | 28:56 | 9/24/12 | 9/25/12 | e | 
| 10/6/12 | John Nichols: The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011 - And Beyond - pt 1 | 
56:05 | 4/27/12 | 8/11/12 | s | 
| 10/13/12 | Joe Parisi, Tammy Baldwin, Ed Garvey, Dave Zweifel, Ruth Conniff and Peter Leidy at Fighting Bob Fest 2012 | 
47:33 | 9/15/12 | 9/22/12 | t | 
| 10/20/12 | Frederick Clarkson: The role of the Christian right in the American elections and American politics | 
56:11 | 10/5/12 | 10/12/12 | q | 
| 10/27/12 | Rinku Sen, the publisher of www.colorlines.com, which champions racial justice. | 28:56 | 10/22/12 | 10/23/12 | e | 
| 11/3/12 | 
United Nations Sunday: The Honorable Tammy Baldwin, Congressional Rep. for Wis. 2nd District | 
28:44 | 10/24/99 | now | g | 
| 11/10/12 | 
Tammy Baldwin & Norm Stockwell: Acceptance speech and election results | 
54:05 | 11/7/12 | 11/7/12 | q | 
| 11/17/12 | Mike Wagner: Elections, Democracy and the Media | 
53:57 | 11/8/12 | 11/9/12 | q | 
| 11/24/12 | Michele Bahl, Tsela Barr, Veena Brekke: Interfaith Peace Builders - hosted by John Quinlan | 
54:31 | 11/19/12 | 11/23/12 | q | 
| 12/1/12 | Paul Kurtz: Exuberant Skepticism + Skepticism and Religion | 53:07 | 6/27/10, 7/4/10 | 11/17/12, 11/24/12 | u | 
| 12/8/12 | 
Eugenie Scott: Evolution, Skepticism and Atheism
 | 51:20 | 7/25/10 | 12/1/12 | u | 
| 12/15/12 | 
Richard Dawkins: Faith, Biology, and Skepticism
 | 46:16 | 11/14/11 | 12/8/12 | u | 
| 12/22/12 | 
James Tabor: The Jesus Discovery | 
33:55 | 3/26/12 | 4/4/12 | b | 
| 12/29/12 | Bonnie Block, David Soumis, Linda Ketcham: IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR CHILDREN: Decisively Addressing the Scourges of Gun Violence and Drone Warfare - hosted by John Quinlan | 
53:48 | 12/17/12 | 12/21/12 | q | 
  
a Lecture given at UW-Madison Darwin Day 2008. 
b Culture Shocks interview by Barry Lynn. 
c Spirit In Action from Northern Spirit Radio, Eau Claire WI. 
d Skeptically Speaking from CJSR, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  
e Progressive Radio interview by Matt Rothschild. 
f Audio from YouTube video of ontheearthproduction. 
g Recorded at Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society Meeting House in Madison. 
h From Steve Busalacchi's Clean Wisconsin Politics.  
i The Humanist Hour from the American Humanist Association. 
j Recording of Humanist Union of Madison program. 
k Platform address at The Ethical Society of St. Louis. 
l An hour of The Sara Schulz Show.  
m Recorded by Sara Schulz. 
n Audio from YouTube videos of CESAWCER, Paul Baker. 
o Excerpt from Democracy Now! (Full program broadcast 2/25/11 & 7/16/11.) 
p Talk at Freethought Festival 2012 recorded by WIDE-LP. 
q From A Public Affair, WORT-FM. 
r Freethought Radio podcast from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. 
s Talk sponsored by The Madison Institute. 
t Recorded at Fighting Bob Fest 2012 in Madison by WORT-FM. 
u For Good Reason podcast with D.J. Grothe. 
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