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2018 Program Schedule for
Wider Horizons
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.	Length	Creation Date	Source Note
1/1/18	John Eligandi: The Dalits' Struggle for Human Rights (repeated from 3/16/09)	1:00:39	2/3/08	^a
1/8/17	Richard Russell: Atheist Lounges of 2017	49:38	1/7/18	^a
1/15/18	Kathy Converse and Christina Klock: Evolution in the 21st Century: Forum Report (repeated from 1/26/09)	1:02:51	5/11/08	^a
1/22/18	Beth Wortzel and Midge Miller on the May 2006 Spiritual Activism Conference in Washington DC (repeated from 4/6/09)	1:12:27	6/25/06	^a
1/29/18	Tom Givnish: Evolution of Life on Islands (repeated from 12/30/08)	42:32	3/2/08	^b
2/5/18	Prof. Tom Givnish: More about evolution of life on islands, an informal discussion with Tom Givnish (repeated from 1/5/09)	58:21	3/2/08	^a
2/12/18	Darwin Day '08 (repeated from 1/12/09)	1:03:04	1/30/08	^c
2/19/18	Jane Shoup: Darwin Day Discussion (repeated from 2/9/09)	1:08:41	2/1/09	^a
2/26/18	Peeking over Darwin's Shoulder (repeated from 1/19/09)	1:00:00	7/30/08	^c
3/5/18	Amanda Metskas: Camp Quest Summer Camp (repeated from 4/13/09)	59:42	7/25/07	^c
3/12/18	Carolyn Porco: The Cosmic Theater (repeated from 4/20/09)	47:11	10/29/08	^c
3/19/18	Lena Vincent: Q&A About Theories on the Origin of Life	1:16:00	3/11/18	^a
3/26/18	Lena Vincent: Current Theories on the Origin and Early Evolution of Life on Earth	49:30	3/11/18	^b
4/2/18	Susan Hagstrom: Anti-Intellectualism in America: The War on Science	57:06	4/1/18	^a
4/9/18	Fan Pen Li Chen, Gurinder Singh Azad: West Meets East (repeated from 4/27/09)	1:06:00	8/27/08	^c
4/16/18	Mikhaela, Matt & Jeff, Hemant Mehta: Atheist for Sale (repeated from 5/4/09)	1:00:11	2/28/06	^c
4/23/18	Caspar Melville: Student Freethinkers (repeated from 5/11/09)	1:03:01	3/29/06	^c
4/30/18	Roar Johnsen: Humanism in Norway (repeated from 5/18/09)	1:00:04	4/26/06	^c
5/7/18	Doug Renk: Forward! Marching Band History: Activism and Solidarity through Music	46:39	5/6/18	^a
5/14/18	Larry Jones: Undercover With Christian Coalition (repeated from 5/25/09)	57:21	5/24/06	^c
5/21/18	Shawn Peters: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law (repeated from 6/1/09)	1:01:29	7/13/08	^a
5/28/18	Kate Lovelady: A humanist look at the sermon on the mount (repeated from 6/8/09)	23:10	4/12/09	^d
6/4/18	International Humanist Youth (repeated from 6/15/09)	59:29	8/29/07	^c
6/11/18	Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens: The New Atheists on Organized Freethought (repeated from 6/22/09)	55:12	10/24/07	^c
6/18/18	Salman Rushdie & Cultural Humanism (repeated from 6/29/09)	1:01:40	5/2/07	^c
7/9/18	Meet the American Humanist Association (repeated from 7/6/09)	49:31	5/27/09	^c
7/16/18	Newdow, Atheist Comedian & Religious Supeheroes (repeated from 7/13/09)	1:00:28	6/28/06	^c
7/23/18	Brenda Frei, Margaret Downey: 30 Days (repeated from 7/20/09)	55:49	8/30/06	^c
7/30/18	Jordan Ellenberg: Q&A session on "A Mathematician's Take on Gerrymandering" presentation and on his best selling book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.	58:02	7/29/18	^a
8/6/18	Q&A with Jane Esbensen (repeated from 7/27/09)	59:02	7/5/09	^a
8/13/18	Leslie Starczewski, Ron Solomon, Jennifer Bunner, Julie Merrill-Quinn, Bob Park: Growth strategies for free thinking groups: what works and doesn't work? (repeated from 8/3/09)	1:16:51	8/2/09	^a
8/20/18	August Berkshire: The Atheist Alliance International (repeated from 8/10/09)	1:08:57	6/19/09	^a
^a Recording of Humanist Union of Madison program. ^b Talk at Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society. ^c The Humanist Hour (previously Humanist Network News) from the American Humanist Association. ^d Platform address at The Ethical Society of St. Louis.

Tuesday 10 am Spirit In Action or Song of the Soul 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
1/2/18	Peter Alsop: Awakening Men - Ebenezer's Make Over, Part 2	12/30/17	^a
1/9/18	Steve Chase: A Passionate Zionist Rethinks	1/6/18	^a
1/16/18	Gordon Whitman: Stand Up, Together!	1/13/18	^a
1/23/18	David Albert: Miracle Water	1/20/18	^a
1/30/18	Bob Lesniewski, Kathy Reid Walker, Sarah Harless, Suzon Gordon, Imam Tammer Abdelaziz, Hyejung Hwang, Lama Yeshe, Alicia Reed, Tom Krieg: Prays Well With Others	1/27/18	^a
2/6/18	Unny Nambudiripad, Laura Matanah: Joyful Animal Compassion	11/20/16	^a
2/13/18	Aaron Telitz, Emily Puthoff, Chantal Bilodeau, Grant Samms: Bees, Racing, Wind, Arctic & Climate Change	2/10/18	^a
2/20/18	Jim Page: Whose World is This?	2/17/18	^a
2/27/18	Lucy Duncan, Dalit Baum, Sandra Tamari: Journeys in Palestine Towards Liberation	2/24/18	^a
3/6/18	Jeremy Lent: Learning From & Wrestling With Humanity 101	3/3/18	^a
3/13/18	Jeremy Lent: Earth Roots Consciousness 102	3/10/18	^a
3/20/18	Jeremy Lent: Healthy Earth Thinking 103	3/17/18	^a
3/27/18	Charlie King, Paul Tinkerhess, Annie Patterson, Peter Blood, Bill Miller, Liam Robinson, Jean Rohe, Peggy Seeger: Tunes in the Belly of the Year	1/20/18	^b
4/3/18	Erin LaFaive, Samuel Thayer: Nurtured by Nature	3/31/18	^a
4/10/18	Myron Buchholz, Donna Wagner Backus, Christine Ashley: Enough is Enough! (Part 1)	4/6/18	^a
4/17/18	Sam Thayer, Crispin Pierce: Ecoculture Blessings & Fracksand Mining Hazards	4/14/18	^a
4/24/18	Bonni Knight, Zaria Whitacre, Thomas Finegar: Youth & Anti-Gun Violence	4/21/18	^a
5/1/18	Maria Dunn: Tiny Tim Meets Mother Jones Meets Jean Redpath	3/31/18	^b
5/8/18	Rachel Hart-Brinson, Ann Francis: I Resisted Today	5/5/18	^a
5/15/18	Dr. Lise Van Susteren, Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, Fritz Horstman, Claire Vaye Watkins: Climate Change, Mental Health, The Arctic, & Storytelling	5/12/18	^a
5/22/18	Howard Ross: Longing for Belonging, 'Druther Have No Other	5/19/18	^a
5/29/18	Annie Fitzgerald: Grounded Like the Trees, Flying Like the Breeze	5/12/18	^b
6/5/18	David LaMotte, Billy Jonas, Dawud Wharnsby: A Muslim, a Jew, & a Christian walk into a concert hall...	6/2/18	^b
6/12/18	David Bucura: Preventing the Next Genocide	6/9/18	^a
6/19/18	Tracy Fessenden: Billie Holiday's World	6/16/18	^a
7/10/18	Back In Iraq With Sami Rasouli	6/23/18	^a
7/17/18	Peterson Toscano: Gender Bending in the Bible	7/7/18	^a
7/24/18	Pam Taylor: Pam Follows the Manure	7/21/18	^a
7/31/18	Iris Graville: Hiking Naked	7/28/18	^a
8/7/18	Kitty Donohoe: Not Your Standard Irish Lass (From Ann Arbor)	6/30/18	^b
8/14/18	Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr.: Common Chords	8/4/18	^a
8/21/18	Brian Ettling, Edgar Westerhof, Brentin Mock, Dr. Natasha DeJarnette, Tyree Daye: Climate Humor, Racism, Poetry, & More	8/11/18	^a
	Elizabeth Kemler: A New York Cowgirl's Tale	12/9/17	^b
^a Spirit In Action from Northern Spirit Radio - interviews by Mark Helpsmeet, 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 Science for the People (program airs again the same day at 5 pm) These 60 min. programs are from http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/
Broadcast Date	Program Click below to listen online.	Creation Date
1/3/18	Mark McClusky, Bryan Chung: Sports Science (rebroadcast)	5/8/15
1/10/18	Charles DuHigg, Ayelet Fishbach: New Year's Resolutions	1/5/18
1/17/18	Shyla Raghav, Rebecca Shaw: Inside a Conservation NGO	1/12/18
1/24/18	Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kristina Killgrove: Trowel Blazing	1/19/18
1/31/18	Sarah Rodriguez, Brian Earp: Circumcision (rebroadcast)	3/27/15
2/7/18	Kate Clancy, Julie Wiebe: Postpartum Blues	2/2/18
2/14/18	Lauren Drogos, Lennette Liedy Sievert: Brake for Menopause	2/9/18
2/21/18	Jianyu Li, Geeske Langejans: Adhesives	2/16/18
2/28/18	Chelsea Vowel, Molly Swain, Eric Bibeau, John Hepburn, Erin Bow: The Future of Energy	2/23/18
3/7/18	Mark Riddle, George Peck: Trench to Bedside (rebroadcast)	11/18/16
3/14/18	Alex Hutchinson, Lori Haase Alasantro: How We Endure	3/9/18
3/21/18	Asifa Majid, Jay Gottfried: How the Nose Knows	3/16/18
3/28/18	Andrew Scott, Caroline Weinberg: Wildfire	3/23/18
4/4/18	Dawn Biehler, Clint Penick: Pests in the City (rebroadcast)	5/1/15
4/11/18	Lindsey Fitzharris, Nils Hansson: Slicing Into Surgery	4/6/18
4/18/18	Dan Egan: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes	4/13/18
4/25/18	James Lyne, David Garcia: Information Spookyhighway	4/20/18
5/2/18	Rose O'Dea, Kristina Horback: Pigs and Fish: Personality in Animals	4/27/18
5/9/18	Boris Schmid, Loren Cassin Sackett: A Good Bout of Plague	5/4/18
5/16/18	Victoria Hwang, Maria McNamara: Colour Me... Structurally?	5/11/18
5/23/18	Phillippa Diedrichs, Diana Harcourt, Nadia Craddock, Jade Parnell: Appearance Matters	5/18/18
5/30/18	Dan Riskin, Phil Plait: Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You (Rebroadcast)	6/27/14
6/6/18	Mika McKinnon, Annalee Newitz: Science in Fiction	6/1/18
6/13/18	Robert Muir-Wood: Cure for Catastrophe	6/8/18
6/20/18	Carl Zimmer: She Has Her Mother's Laugh	6/15/18
7/11/18 am	Tina Saey, Kelly Hills: 23 and You	7/6/18
7/11/18 pm	Nick Enfield, Emma Byrne: Cursing and Conversation	6/29/18
7/18/18	Adam Piore, Ken Thomas: Body Builders	7/13/18
7/25/18	Carin Bondar: Wild Moms	7/20/18
8/1/18	Douglas Emlen: Animal Weapons (rebroadcast)	8/14/15
8/8/18	Kevin Begos, Erika Szymanski: Fine Times With Wine	8/3/18
8/15/18	Jessica Johnson, Janine Krippner: Volcanoes	8/10/18
8/22/18	Daina Taimina, Janelle Shane: Knitting in PEARL	8/17/18

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.	Length	Creation Date	Source Note
1/4/18	Jerome Socolovsky, Sarah Posner, Andrew Hanauer: A Year End Religion Roundup	1:02:12	12/30/17	^a
1/11/18	Margaret Carpenter: Kwanzaa	32:44	12/31/17	^b
1/18/18 am	Rev. Sandra Ingham: Rainbows and Tarantulas	36:04	12/24/17	^b
1/18/18 pm	Rev. Sandra Ingham: New Year's ReVolutions	32:04	1/7/18	^b
1/25/18	Rev. Sandra Ingham: The Measure of Greatness	37:25	1/21/18	^b
2/1/18	Kate Lovelady: Fear Is the Mind Killer	24:07	1/14/18	^c
2/8/18	Rev. Kali Hayslett: Maybe I Don't Know but Maybe That's Okay	21:44	1/14/18	^b
2/15/18	Andy Garst: American Composer, John Cage	29:11	1/28/18	^b
2/22/18	Brooke Hempbell, Dan Schultz, Dr. Pearson Cross: February 17, 2018 - Generation Z: least into JC	54:11	2/17/18	^a
3/1/18	Peter Montgomery, Rabbi Jack Moline, Rabbi Sharon Brous: Productive Anger	55:46	2/24/18	^a
3/8/18	Dawn Hayslett: A Look Back at the Sources	17:42	2/11/18	^b
3/15/18	Rev. Jennifer Butler, Father James Martin, Dr. Bradley Onishi: #NEVERAGAIN	48:36	3/10/18	^a
3/22/18	Believable: Bishop John Shelby Spong	48:26	3/17/18	^a
3/29/18	Will Saltzburg, Natalie Daskal, Rabbi Jack Moline, Jana Riess: #NotOneMore	48:53	3/24/18	^a
4/5/18	Aaron Liu: Principles in Practice in Ultimate Frisbee	26:11	2/25/18	^b
4/12/18	William Saltzburg, Kumar Rao, Carey Shenkman, Alissa Wilkinson: #TownHallForOurLives	48:09	4/7/18	^a
4/12/18 pm	Sue Pastor: Can We Bring Back Civil Dialogue - hosted by Jan Miyasaki	7:08	4/11/18	^d
4/19/18	Jimmy Carter, Brandan Robertson, Rabbi Jack Moline: April 14, 2018 - The Faith of Jimmy Carter	47:47	4/14/18	^a
4/26/18 am	Rev. Sandra Ingham: The News Is Brought to You By ____ ?	40:48	3/18/18	^b
4/26/18 pm	Rev. Sandra Ingham: No Fooling!	35:13	4/1/18	^b
5/3/18	Mary Beth O'Halloran: Humanism 101	27:47	10/8/17	^b
5/10/18	Julio Garcia, Mary Maronek: Tenant Resource Center	27:57	3/25/18	^b
5/17/18	John Mix, Rudy Bankston: Incarceration and Return to the Community	45:02	4/8/18	^b
5/24/18	Robin Proud: Founding Mothers	28:15	5/13/18	^b
5/31/18	Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Jack Jenkins, Rabbi Abby Jacobson: May 19, 2018 - Religious Right Prayers, Answered	54:57	5/19/18	^a
6/7/18	Katherine Liu: Growing Up UU	19:59	5/6/18	^b
6/14/18	Holly Tellander: RE-Visioned: Changing Trends at Prairie & in the Wider UU Community	34:07	5/20/18	^b
7/12/18	Kate Lovelady: Is Sexual Harassment Finally Being Taken Seriously?	28:36	3/18/18	^c
7/19/18 am	Rev. Sandra Ingham: Alphabet Soup - or - How Do You Spell UUA?	41:37	4/22/18	^b
7/19/18 pm	Rev. Sandra Ingham: Memories Are Made of This	31:46	5/27/18	^b
7/26/18	Molly Plunkett: Camino de Santiago de Compostela	39:26	7/8/18	^b
8/2/18	Kate Lovelady: Are We Morally Obligated to Be Curious?	28:25	4/8/18	^c
8/9/18 am	Rev. Sandra Ingham: Sea Change (See Change?)	31:18	6/10/18	^b
8/9/18 pm	Rev. Sandra Ingham: Flirting With Freedom	31:43	7/1/18	^b
8/16/18	Jordan Ellenberg: A Mathematician's Take on Gerrymandering	42:57	7/29/18	^b
8/23/18	Mark Golbach: State Street Through the Camera Lens	41:20	8/5/18	^b
^a Podcast from State of Belief. ^b Talk at Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society. ^c Platform address at The Ethical Society of St. Louis. ^d From the 8 O'Clock Buzz on WORT-FM.

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.
1/12/18	Jarred Dunn: The Right Note	1/11/18	611
1/19/18	Bailey and Doug Harris: We Are Stardust	1/18/18	612
1/26/18	Debra Deanne Olson: Honorable Atheist Governor	1/25/18	613
2/2/18	Camille Beredjick: Queer Disbelief	2/1/18	614
2/9/18	Muhammad Syed: Normalizing Religious Dissent	2/8/18	615
2/16/18	Tova Mirvis: Book of Separation	2/15/18	616
2/23/18	Mohammed al Khadra: Thoughts and (Non)Prayers	2/22/18	617
3/2/18	Rada Owen: Olympic Freethought	3/1/18	618
3/9/18	Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now	3/8/18	619
3/16/18	Toni Van Pelt: Forward March	3/15/18	620
3/23/18	Mandisa Thomas: Black Nonbelievers	3/22/18	621
3/30/18	Patty Friedmann: Organized Panic	3/29/18	622
4/6/18	Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker: Celebrate 40 Years!	4/5/18	623
4/13/18	Andrew Seidel: Strategic Response	4/12/18	624
4/20/18	Linda LaScola, Ricardo Zavala: Secular State	4/19/18	625
4/27/18	Valerie Tarico: Badly Written Bible	4/26/18	626
5/4/18	David Steketee: The Constitution Wins	5/3/18	627
5/11/18	Leighann Lord: Very Funny Lady	5/10/18	628
5/18/18	Sarah Haider, Richard A. Conn, Jr.: Earthbound	5/17/18	629
5/25/18	James A. Haught: Hard-Fighting Editor	5/24/18	630
6/1/18	Jane Donnelly, Michael Nugent, Dr. Hector Guillen: Freethought Around the World	5/31/18	631
6/15/18	Donald Ardell: Secular Wellness	6/14/18	633
7/13/18 am	Frederick Clarkson: Project Blitz	6/21/18	634
7/13/18 pm	Abby Scher: No Health Care For You	7/5/18	636
7/27/18 am	David Kaloyanides, Daniel Mach: Freedom of Religion and Belief	7/26/18	639
7/27/18 pm	HS senior activist Daniel Koster (repeated from 5/23/13)*	5/11/13	367
8/3/18 am	Katha Pollitt: Supreme Court: Danger & Hope	7/12/18	637
8/3/18 pm	Susan Jacoby: Don't Tear Down That Wall	7/19/18	638
8/10/18 am	Adam Chodorow: Friend of the Court	8/9/18	641
8/10/18 pm	Lawrence Millman: At The End of the World	8/2/18	640
8/17/18	Stephen Uhl: Out of God's Closet	8/16/18	642
8/24/18	TBA	8/23/18	643
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