WIDE-LP Radio



2025 Program Schedule for the

Wider Horizons
series, 10 AM Mon. to Fri.
At 5 PM we rebroadcast the same program
(or another program in the same series)

Monday
 
Tuesday
 
Wednesday
 
Thursday
 
Friday

Monday 10 AM
Humanism Today
(each program airs again the same day at 5 PM)
Broadcast
Date
Program
Click below to listen online.
LengthCreation
Date
Source
Note
1/6/25 Shawn Peters: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law (repeated from 6/1/09) 1:01:297/13/08a
1/13/25 John Eligandi: The Dalits' Struggle for Human Rights (repeated from 3/16/09)1:00:392/3/08a
1/20/25 Dr. Carolyn Porco: The Cosmic Theater (repeated from 4/20/09)43:5810/29/08b
1/27/25 Fan Pen Li Chen, Gurinder Singh Azad: East Meets West (repeated from 4/27/09)1:06:008/27/08b
2/3/25 Kate Lovelady: A humanist look at the sermon on the mount (repeated from 6/8/09) 23:104/12/09c
2/10/25 International Humanist Youth (repeated from 6/15/09)59:298/29/07b
2/17/25 Barb Park, Karen Deaton: Raging Grannies 26:542/2/25d
2/24/25 Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens:
The New Atheists on Organized Freethought
(repeated from 6/22/09)
55:1210/24/07b
3/3/25 Salman Rushdie & Cultural Humanism (repeated from 6/29/09) 1:01:405/2/07b
3/10/25 Michael Newdow, Jamila Bey, Preston Hunter: Newdow, Atheist Comedian & Religious Supeheroes
(repeated from 7/13/09)
1:00:286/28/06b
3/17/25 Brenda Frye, Margaret Downey: 30 Days (repeated from 7/20/09)1:05:068/30/06b
3/24/25 Q&A with Jane Esbensen (repeated from 7/27/09)59:027/5/09a
3/31/25 Leslie S., Ron S. Jennifer B., Julie Q.: Growth strategies for free thinking groups: what works and doesn't work? (repeated from 8/3/09) 1:17:048/2/09a
4/7/25 Caitilyn Allen: Coffee Stories: Capitalism, Colonialism, Climate Change, & a Killer Fungus1:03:244/6/25a
4/14/25 August Berkshire: The Atheist Alliance International (repeated from 8/10/09)1:08:576/19/09a
4/21/25 Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (repeated from 8/17/09)57:446/24/09b
4/28/25 Neil deGrasse Tyson, Barbara Forrest, Donald Johanson: Popularizing Science (repeated from 8/24/09)53:007/22/09b
5/5/25 Three panelists, Bob Park, Doleta Chapru, and Galen Smith, on What it means to be a humanist
(repeated from 8/31/09)
1:03:559/14/08a
5/12/25 Dan McClellan: How to put data over dogma - hosted by Sara Gabler54:095/6/25e
5/19/25 Dan Barker: Losing Faith in Faith (repeated from 9/7/09)56:5111/4/07a
5/26/25 Greg Epstein: The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard (repeated from 9/14/09)1:02:083/28/07b
6/2/25 Alf Dubs on escaping the Nazis, memories of the NHS 'the day it all began', and xenophobia in 1940s UK27:385/21/25f
6/9/25 Jane Fallon on her journey to veganism, a lifelong love for animals, and 'Chick Noir'31:095/29/25f
6/16/25 Ian Dunt on the uncomfortable truth of liberalism, populism on the rise, and freedom to Vs freedom from31:526/5/25f
6/23/25 Sarah Bakewell on the joy of biography and what it means to be human38:266/11/25f
6/30/25 Kate Devlin on human adaptability in an AI world, AI's ethical challenges, and our obsession with sex robots30:576/18/25f
7/7/25 James Forder on old fashioned liberalism, the finiteness of our existence, and free enterprise as a moral force49:056/25/25f
7/14/25 Lizzi Collinge MP on millennials modernising parliament, living the one life we have, and the joys of being an MP34:526/11/25f
7/21/25 Anjali Goswami on humanity's interconnectedness with the world, 'selfish nihilism', and a childhood encounter with a tiger39:237/9/25f
7/28/25 Stephen Fry on the uncomfortable truth of AI, the peril of being 'right' over being 'effective', and the dichotomy of humanity41:297/17/25f
8/4/25 An Impossible Task: Prayers in SK municipalities15:4110/9/24g
8/11/25 Joyce Arthur, Teale Phelps Bondaroff: Preconceived Panel41:3912/12/24g
8/18/25 Perry Bulwer - Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult34:448/2/24g
8/25/25 Paul Henderson: Fired for upsetting the religious right39:238/2/24g
9/1/25 Finding DORI: Embracing the era of religious inefficience (for April Fools Day)22:564/1/25g
9/8/25 A Chat With Chaz Mena (repeated from 9/21/09)1:00:0711/26/08b
9/15/25 Sean Faircloth: One Nation Under the Constitution (repeated from 9/28/09)1:15:549/12/09a
9/22/25 Ron Solomon on on the American Ethical Union's membership in the Secular Coalition for American (repeated from 10/5/09)38:1310/4/09a
9/29/25 Bob Park: Facebook and Billionaire Greed38:559/27/25a
10/6/25 Barbara Park: The Thought and Writing of Sam Harris - I (repeated from 10/19/09)44:3311/19/06a
Randy Converse: The Thought and Writing of Sam Harris - II (repeated from 10/26/09)42:3311/19/06a

a Recording of Humanist Union of Madison program.
b Podcast from Humanist Network News.
c Platform address at The Ethical Society of St. Louis.
d Presentation for Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society.
e From A Public Affair on WORT-FM.
f What I Believe podcast from Humanists UK.
g BC Humanists Podcast from the British Columbia Humanist Association, Vancouver.


Tuesday 10 AM
Spirit In Action   or   Song of the Soul
Usual length 55 min.
(each program airs again the same day at 5 PM)

Broadcast
Date
Program
Click below to listen online.
Creation
Date
Source
Note
1/7/25Mike McCabe's Miracles Along County Q 1/4/25a
1/14/25 Terry Holder, Kate Klim, Johnsmith, Flamy Grant, Tom Prasada-Rao, Tom Kimmel, Patty Prasada-Rao:
Kerrville Alumni, Part 1 - Recent NSR Guests
1/11/25b
1/21/25 Tom Neilson, Danny Schmidt, Anne Feeney. Jonathan Byrd. David Massengill, David Roth, David Wilcox:
Cream of Kerrville at NSR - Part 2
1/18/25b
1/28/25 Daniel Hunter: 10 Things To Do Now That Trump Has Won1/25/25a
2/4/25 Joe Elder: Remembering a Messenger for Peace2/1/25a
2/11/25 Chance Smith, Travis Gorell: Small Town, Big Gays - Wholeness in Flyover Land2/8/25a
2/18/25 The End of a Hot Mess & Starting Snorkling with CCR2/15/25a
2/25/25 Jan Spencer: City Planning Goals and Paradigm Shift2/22/25a
3/4/25 Small Islands of Sanity for The Right Person: Climate Changed3/1/25a
3/11/25 Betsy Leondar-Wright: Truth Among Red & Blue White People: Is It Racism, Is It Sexism?3/8/25a
3/18/25 Cyndi Greening: A Real Democracy of, by, & for the People: Indivisible3/15/25a
3/25/25 The Magnificence of Glam Country with Emily Haavik2/1/25b
4/1/25 Peter Anderson: Mystics, Misfits, and Mountain Dwellers at the First Church of the Higher Elevations3/29/25a
4/15/25 Jane Kopecky: The "Bad Boy" Conscientious Objectors of WW2 in Germfask, MI4/5/25a
4/22/25 Preparing for the Draft & Conscientious Objection with Wayne Finegar4/19/25a
4/29/25 Paul Wagner: Earth Service & The Sierra Club4/26/25a
5/6/25 Harvard's DEI Refusal & Their Joyful Ex-Prisoner Chaplain: John Bach5/3/25a
5/13/25 Peterson Toscano, Elise Silvestra, Kate Schapira, Barbara Wankollie, Carrie Ziegler: Listening, Sound, and Art: Transforming Climate Anxiety into Hope5/10/25a
5/20/25 Peterson Toscano, Father James Martin, SJ, Lucas Wilson: Help Someone Out of Their Grave Clothes: Bubble & Squeak5/17/25a
5/27/25 Botanicals, Prostate Cancer, & Community Supported Enlightenment: Pamela Boyce Simms5/24/25a
6/3/25 Jan Spencer: Sustainability is the Common-sense Destination for Emergency Preparedness5/31/25a
6/10/25 Elizabeth Minnich: Everyday Evil's Antidote: Thinking6/7/25a
6/17/25 Nicole Diroff, Shanon Shah, Pax Ressler: Faith, Power, and Climate Justice: A Climate Changed Conversation with Shanon Shah6/14/25a
6/24/25 David Welder: Forth to Basics: A Guide to Goin' Off-Grid (And Living More with Less)6/21/25a
7/1/25 Finding Happy - Mentored by Peter Samuelson, Part 16/28/25a
7/8/25 Finding Happy with Peter Samuelson, the Crescendo - Part 27/5/25a
7/15/25 Growing Heart in the Heartland - Maaria Mozaffar7/12/25a
7/22/25 Deep Dive into Africa, Trans, and USAID with Chloe Schwenke7/19/25a
7/29/25 Jewish Earth Alliance & Mirele Goldsmith7/26/25a
8/5/25 Craig Johnson: Saving Our Young Men from Fascism8/2/25a
8/12/25 Fighting Afghan Daughters for Sale with Rap: Sonita Alizada8/9/25a
8/26/25 Michael Neely Addresses Domestic Violence in His Home, in the Church, in Florida, & in the USA8/23/25a
9/2/25 Suzanne Parry: Learning from WW2 - Nazi Oppression on Russian Ground8/30/25a
9/9/25 Wind Power, Old Style: Bryce Black9/6/25a
9/16/25 The Lucy Story & Soul: Lucy Kaplansky8/16/25b
9/23/25 From the Center to the Center: Katie Dwyer8/30/25b
9/30/25 John McCutcheon Live, 2019 to 20259/27/25b
10/7/25 Raising Up Gentle Rebellion & History Makin' Music with Andrea Prichett10/4/25b

a Spirit In Action from Northern Spirit Radio - interviews by Mark Helpsmeet and others, Eau Claire WI.
b Song of the Soul from Northern Spirit Radio - interviews by Mark Helpsmeet and music selected by his guests.


Wednesday 10 AM
This is Science,
eLife Sciences, etc.
(program airs again the same day at 5 PM)
Broadcast
Date
Program
Click below to listen online.
LengthCreation
Date
Source
Note
1/1/25Tom Stafford, Sarah Brosnan: Brain Games60:003/4/11a
1/8/25Stephen Barrett, James Randi, Jamie Williams: Quacks and Scams60:002/18/11a
1/15/25Bethany Brookshire, John Logsdon: Semen Science (REBROADCAST) (repeated from 9/21/12)60:002/25/11a
1/22/25Dr. Angel Fernandez-Bou, Vivian Yang: Greening Our Growing28:561/7/25b
1/29/25Dr. Jennifer Jones: The Age of Unreason28:581/21/25b
2/5/25TWiV 1188: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin47:481/25/25c
2/12/25David Dobbs: Reef Madness60:003/30/12a
2/19/25Liz Borkowski, Alistair Boxall: Sewer Science60:003/18/11a
2/26/25Holly Tucker, Robynn McCarthy, William Rutherford: Blood Work60:003/18/11a
3/5/25TWiV 1196: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin58:522/27/25c
3/12/25Hollywood helps brain scientists probe thoughts40:512/26/25d
3/19/25Brian Malow, Bethany Brookshire, Brian Thompson: Making Science Funny60:003/25/11a
3/26/25Gary Stadtmauer, Michael Kruse: The Science of Allergies60:001/21/11a
4/2/25David P. Hughes, Robert Smith?: Zombie Attack!60:004/8/11a
4/9/25Olga Karach: From Chernobyl to Nuclear Weapons: Connecting Anti-Militarism, Peacebuilding, and Climate Justice in Belarus1:00:443/9/25e
4/16/25Nir Barzilai, Diana Kuh: A Lifetime of Data60:004/22/11a
4/23/25Greg Laden, Randi Hutter Epstein: A History of Childbirth60:004/29/11a
4/30/25Frog toxicity, and what a year's schooling does to the brain35:284/24/25d
5/7/25Janet Stemwedel, Bill Barry: Animal Testing60:005/6/11a
5/14/25TWiV 1216: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin58:525/10/25c
5/21/25Jessica Wapner, Mark Stevenson: An Optimist's Tour of The Future60:002/11/11a
5/28/25Richard J. McNally, Maia Szalavitz: What is Mental Illness?60:006/10/11a
6/4/25Sasha Mullally, Gary Stadtmauer: Rural Medicine60:006/17/11a
6/11/25Abbie Smith, Peter Leone: HIV and AIDS60:007/22/11a
6/18/25Keith Schon, Jessica Wapner: Data Analysis60:007/29/11a
6/25/25Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Boleslaw Szymanski: The Theory That Would Not Die60:008/5/11a
7/2/25William Ryerson, Ronald Lee: Global Population60:008/12/11a
7/9/25Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth38:486/19/25d
7/16/25Brian Fagan, Daniel Loxton: The Earth That Was60:009/16/11a
7/23/25Stuart Clark, Jennifer Rohn: Science As Fiction60:0010/7/11a
7/30/25Tyler Hamilton, Jason Rantanen: Mad Like Tesla60:0010/14/11a
8/6/25Carl Zimmer, Phillip Yam: Microorganisms60:0010/21/11a
8/13/25, 8/20/25Elizabeth Loftus, Gary Wells: Memory Science60:0011/4/11a
8/27/25Eugenie Scott, Greg Laden, Steven Newton: Evolution and Politics60:0011/11/11a
9/3/25TWiV 1248: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin47:068/28/25c
9/10/25Akhar Bandyopadhyay: From War Machines to Green Futures: Disarmament as Climate Justice1:14:128/27/25e
9/17/25Ants doing gene therapy, and tadpole microbiomes43:159/8/25d
9/24/25TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin59:529/4/25c
10/1/25Aaron Schmidt, Tatum Sass, Ben Gewurz: TWiV 1253: Harvard virology is not retreating1:10:209/12/25c
10/8/25Jackson Kasangani: Youth organizing49:438/27/25e

a From Skeptically Speaking (before its name change), Edmonton Alberta.
b This is Science with Jess Phoenix, podcast from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
c This Week in Virology from MicrobeTV.
d Monthly half hour programs by Dr. Chris Smith on topics in the life and biomedical sciences from https://elifesciences.org/podcast.
e Climate Talks for Everyone from Northern AZ Climate Change Alliance.


Thursday 10 AM
Voices for Religious Pluralism
(each program airs again the same day at 5 PM)
Broadcast
Date
Program
Click below to listen online.
LengthCreation
Date
Source
Note
1/2/25 Darrin Madison, Ryan Clancy, Amelia Berendt: Socialism in MIlwaukee1:03:5110/20/24a
1/9/25 Rev. Dr. Michael A. Schuler: Don't Light a Candle and Don't Curse the Darkness27:1510/13/24b
1/16/25 Nandi (Sunita) Nandihalli: Decolonizing Spirituality23:3911/3/24b
1/23/25 Dave Considine: To Party or Not to Party48:011/19/25a
1/30/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Still Climbing the Justice Mountain: Lessons Not yet Learned from MLK19:331/12/25b
2/6/25 Rev. Ralph Tyksinski: Martin Luther King, Jr., an Unwelcome Prophet25:111/19/25b
2/13/25 Robin Proud: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Bible19:451/5/25b
2/20/25 Greg Juarez: Who We Are - Just Bakery12:001/26/25b
2/27/25 Robin Proud: Madame Restell: Most Hated Woman in New York26:422/9/25a
3/6/25 David Butler: Wintering: Power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times26:472/23/25a
3/13/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Exploring Love Languages19:342/16/25b
3/20/25 Dr. Hassimi Traore and Mary Sue Reutebuch: The Power of a Promise23:572/9/25b
3/27/25 Avalon Haykus: Engaging Our Theological Diversity21:292/23/25b
4/3/25 Rob Brink: When It's OK to Quit ... Try Something Else While There Is Yet Time22:403/23/25a
4/10/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Healing Communities through Kinship23:123/2/25b
4/24/25 James Morgan: Relationships Matter23:573/23/25b
5/1/25 Ari Lo: More Than a Kidney: A Community of Care16:453/30/25b
5/8/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Lullabies: the Wisdom and Science of Soothing16:154/13/25b
5/15/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Celebrating the 3 R's: Rebirth, Renewal, and Resilience14:294/20/25b
5/22/25 Fred Clark: Natural Climate Solutions53:175/18/25a
5/29/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Dwelling in your Grit: It's a Good Place to Be!17:215/4/25b
6/5/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: Keeping it Real - Keeping it Kind11:255/11/25b
6/12/25 Rob Brink: Uncheatable Tests: Building Trust in a "Post-Truth" World 20:075/25/25a
6/19/25 Robin Proud: Frances Dana Gage - Midwestern Morals22:185/25/25b
6/26/25 David Butler: Internal Family Systems: Richard Schwartz: "No Bad Parts"26:536/22/25a
7/3/25 Standing for a Moral Budget: Faith Leaders Demand Justice on Capitol Hill45:566/12/25c
7/10/25 Whither America? July 4th with Dr. Robert P. Jones 39:286/28/25d
7/17/25 Robin Proud: Matilda Joslyn Gage ... Suffragist and Freethinker 26:087/13/25a
7/24/25 Mary Sue Reutebuch: The DNA of Wisdom: Why Stories Are Written in Our Bones18:266/29/25b
7/31/25 Beth Racette: Loving the Earth20:377/20/25b
8/7/25 Faith, Fear, and Resistance: Rev. Carlos Malave on ICE, Immigrant Dignity, and Christian Solidarity42:507/16/25c
8/21/25 An Unlikely Social Justice Warrior: Muslim Feminist Ani Zonneveld52:508/16/25d
8/28/25 Walking with the Stranger: Bishop Daniel Gutierrez on Faith, Justice, and Immigration in America48:3910/16/24c
9/4/25,
10/2/25 AM
How the Christian Right is Taking Over America with Talia Lavin50:198/30/25d
9/11/25 Margaret Mooney, Meg Gaines: Trailblazing Lesbian Moms and their Stories22:338/10/25b
9/18/25 Aaron Liu: The Battle of Blair Mountain, 104 Years Later21:328/31/25b
9/25/25 Dr. Reggie Williams: Echoes of Resistance: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Black Social Gospel, and Confronting Christian Nationalism Today54:538/13/25c
10/2/25 PM Libraries and Religious Freedom, with ALA President Sam Helmick49:469/13/25d
10/9/25 John Mix: The Heart of Your Creative Soul28:519/14/25b

https://uuprairie.org/audio/Pr250914_JohnMix_TheHeartOfYourCreativeSoul_ed.mp3 a Talk for the Free Congregation of Sauk County recorded by WIDE-LP.
b Talk for Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society.
c From The Jim Wallis Podcast.
d Podcast from The State of Belief.


Friday 10 AM
Freethought Radio
Length 49 min. 23 sec.
(each program airs again the same day at 5 PM)
Rebroadcast of radio programs from the Freedom From Religion Foundation
Broadcast
Date
Program
Click below to listen online.
Creation
Date
FFRF No.
1/3/25Brandon Wolf: For Auld Lang Syne12/26/24974
1/10/25Seth Andrews, Kate Cohen: The Long Reach of Religion1/2/25975
1/17/25Catherine Nixey: Heretic1/9/25976
1/24/25Carolyn Shadle: From Religion to Reason1/16/25977
1/31/25Gareth Gore: God's Work1/23/25978
2/7/25Cecile Richards: Making Good Trouble1/30/25979
2/14/25Jon Huertas: Breaking the Shackles2/6/25980
2/21/25Ryan T. Cragun: Goodbye Religion2/13/25981
2/28/25David Clohessy: Survivors Network2/20/25982
3/7/25Mandisa Thomas, Patrick L. Remington: Morbidity and Mortality2/27/25983
3/14/25Brian Ruder: Final Exit3/6/25984
3/21/25Kat Grant: Religion vs. Equality3/13/25985
3/28/25Rob Haskell: eXvangelical Journey3/20/25986
4/4/25Josh Cowen: The Privateers3/27/25987
4/11/25Charles Blow: Decrying the dangers4/3/25988
4/18/25Heather Bagnall: "Witches" exonerated4/10/25989
4/25/25George Mbuagbaw: Freethought in Nigeria4/17/25990
5/2/25David T. Buckley: Religion and Trumpian Populism4/24/25991
5/9/25Christer Sturmark: The Flame of Reason5/1/25992
5/16/25LeighAnn Lord, Jared Huffman, Jamie Raskin, Laura Friedman, Susan Wild: Day of Reason5/8/25993
5/23/25Ryan Jayne, Mickey Dollens: Strongly Stated5/15/25994
5/30/25Talia Lavin: Wild Faith5/22/25995
6/6/25Rollo Romig: Religious Hit List5/29/25996
6/13/25David C. Hoffman: American Freethought6/5/25997
6/20/25Sam Grover, Hirsh Joshi: No Kings6/12/25998
6/27/25Ryan Jayne, Mickey Dollens: World Humanism6/19/25999
7/4/25Dan Barker, Annie Laurie Gaylor: Debating Religion6/26/251000
7/11/25Joe Gerstein: SMART Recovery7/3/251001
7/18/25Kat Grant: Religious attack on LGBTQ+7/10/251002
7/25/25Randall Balmer: America's Best Idea7/17/251003
8/1/25Ryan Jayne, Leo Costello: Can religion cure loneliness?7/24/251004
8/8/25Dick Hewetson, Tom Lehrer: Death with Dignity7/31/251005
8/15/25Brenda Wineapple: The Trial of the Century8/7/251006
8/22/25Katherine Stewart: Confronting Christian nationalism8/14/251007
8/29/25Mary Annette Pember: Medicine River8/21/251008
9/5/25April Ajoy: Star-Spangled Jesus8/28/251009
9/12/25Ed Larson: The "Trial of the Century"9/4/251010
9/19/25Haley Cohen Gilliland: "Western Christian values"9/11/251011
9/26/25Rep. Mark Pocan: Whitewashing History Highlights the Importance of Church-State Separation9/18/251012
10/3/25Richard Katskee: Creationism on Trial9/25/251013
10/10/25Kevin Lewis O'Neill: Unforgiven10/2/251014
10/17/25Zoe Lofgren: Fighting Authoritarianism10/9/251015
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