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KPTK AM1090 - A weekly show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. "Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews."

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KPTK AM1090 - A weekly show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. "Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews."

Guests: Irreverent Folksingers Lou and Peter Berryman!
After news--the huge coverage of FFRF's complaint about city prayers in Lodi, Calif., and the conviction of a parent for letting his daughter die of untreated diabetes for religious reasons--Wisconsin folksingers Lou and Peter Berryman perform in the stud

Guests: Lodi State/Church Activist David Diskin "The Family" Author & Expert Jef
David Diskin will talk about the hullabaloo over the Freedom From Religion Foundation's request to the City Council in Lodi, Calif., that it drop prayers to open the meetings. David was one of the organizers of a rally on Aug. 5 to counter religious zealo

Guest: Daniel Everett, How Life in the Amazon Made Him an Atheist!
Co-host Dan Barker will talk about recently experiencing the bizarre creationism museum in Kentucky. Brad Pitt's nonreligion and new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer's request for "divine guidance" will get some play. Interviewed will be li

Guests: Ben Sidran, Attorney Robert R Tiernan
Topics: Jazz as "Religion", FFRF Legal Victory in Denver Schools
A unique legal victory for the Freedom From Religion Foundation, ending a religious endorsement by Cherry Creek Public Schools in Denver, Colo., will be discussed by the always

Topic: Keep State & Church Separate! Guest: FFRF Staff Attorney Rebecca Kratz
Energetic state/church actions by the Foundation will be featured. Staff attorney Rebecca Kratz will also talk about the Foundation's unique amicus brief in the upcoming Mohave "veteran monument" cross case before the U.S. Supreme Court, written

Guests: Edwin Hensley: Kentucky's Godly Homeland Security Violation & Victor Ste

Freethought Radio will interview 2 timely guests: Foundation memberEd Hensley, who will talk about why he is 1 of 9 plaintiffs challengingan egregious Kentucky law requiring "dependence on God" by the stateDepartment of Homeland Security, an

Guest: Gregory Paul, Universal Healthcare Promotes Freethought

Freethought Radio will discuss new billboards in Indianapolis, bussigns in San Francisco, and the furor Foundation complaints overgovernment prayer is creating in Tehachapi, Calif. (a TV news clip willplay on the controversy there). A teaser trailer fo

Guest: Darrell Barker Topic: Capitol Case in Olympia
Freethought Radio will include timely updates on various state/church and freethought activism, including a segment about a state/church prayer controversy heating up in the Dallas, Texas area. In honor of the Sept. 26 anniversary of the birth of nontheis

Guests: Rita Swan, CHILD; Sue Robinson, local activist Topics: Prayer by Governm
An important interview with Rita Swan, director of Children'sHealthcare is a Legal Duty, will focus on insidious amendments tohealthcare reform bills that would force medical insurers to coverprayer as medicine. Local California atheist and Lifetime FFRF'

Guests: Ron Reagan and Lodi activist Karen Buchanan
Topics: "Unabashed atheist" Ron Reagan, host of Air America's Ron Reagan Show, is back for a new interview as a preview to his appearance at FFRF's 32nd annual FFRF convention in Seattle in November. Also featured: an interview with Foundation member Kare

Guests: Ursula K. Le Guin, author, poet & unbeliever & Anne Landman, Colorado Ac
This weekend's show features a conversation with the legendary authorUrsula K. Le Guin, winner of many literary awards and best-known forher classic science fiction and fantasy writing. Also: an interviewwith Grand Junction, Colo. activist and FFRF member

Guests: Donald C. Johanson, "Lucy" Discoverer & John Whiteside, Las Vegas freeth
Scientist and "Lucy" discoverer Donald C. Johanson will talk about hisatheism, evolution and how he feels about "Ardi" displacing "Lucy."FFRF'er John Whiteside will talk about why he underwrote a billboardblitz in Las Vegas f

Guest: Scary Guest! IRS Auditor Talks about Parish Exemptions & Other Tales for
Scary theocratic developments in the news, will be followed by aninterview with one of America's scariest figures: an IRS tax auditor!Retired IRS auditor Robert Baty will expose the many tax privileges andbenefits accruing "ministers of the gospel&qu

Freethought Art & Music: Steve Benson, Ernie Harburg

Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson unveils his brand-new Seattlebus sign that he designed for the foundation (HO! HO! HO!). Ernie Harburg, retired scientist and son of famous songwriter Yip Harburg will discuss thesmash Broadway success of the revival o

Guest: Shawn Francis Peters, author, When Prayer Fails
Freethought Radio will play some coverage of FFRF's jolly new bus sign campaign in Seattle, play some coverage of its 32nd annual convention there and discuss how religious lobbies sabotaged the House health care reform bill over abortion. Shawn Francis P

Guest: Greg M. Epstein: Good Without God
Freethought Radio will talk with Harvard's Humanist Chaplain, Greg M. Epstein, author of the new book, Good Without God: What a Billion Non-Religious People Do Believe.

GUEST: OPERA SINGER MARKELLA
Freethought Radio will talk with world-renowned opera singer Markella, who has gone from Greek Orthodox to unorthodox. Markella has recorded a new pop song, "The God Delusion." Timely news updates include local coverage of FFRF's splashy 10-bill

Guest: Robert M. Price: Bible-believing Bible Scholar to Unbelieving Bible Schol
Author and Jesus Seminar member Robert M. Price, a professor of theology at a seminary, talks about what moved him out of his fundamentalist fold into freethought, and tackles some of the biblical myths about Jesus and Christmas. The hosts talk about time

GUESTS: HANNA ROSIN � DID CHRISTIANITY CAUSE THE CRASH? MARGARET DOWNEY � A TREE
Margaret Downey, president of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia, will talk about why her FFRF chapter erects a "Tree of Knowledge" every year by a courthouse creche and how officials have tried to sabotage that solstice observance.

GUEST: LYNN LANE
TOPIC: THE UNCHRISTMAS SHOW

To provide respite from the seasonal state/church and religious onslaughts, Freethought Radio devotes most of its program to great secular songwriting. The very special guest is Lynn Lane, 86, widow of the legendary so

Eco - Minute

The Ron Reagan Show

Crash Talk

Gardening in the Northwest

The Soul Of Seattle

Latest Audio

Crash Talk 3/6/10 Hour 1
Chris Basso is the media relations manager of CARFAX, the nation’s leading provider of vehicle history information. He works with reporters and journalists nationwide to educate consumers on the latest used car buying issues.

Crash Talk 3/6/10 Hour 2
Chris Basso is the media relations manager of CARFAX, the nation’s leading provider of vehicle history information. He works with reporters and journalists nationwide to educate consumers on the latest used car buying issues.

The Soul of Seattle 3/7/10

Lee Callahan speaks with Doug Hanson
Doug wants more transparency in the Federal Reserve - citizensplatformcommittee.org - he'll be at the Dem caucuses this coming weekend to discuss his plan.

Sundays at 11am - Lee Callahan talks with World Vision
Amy Parodi from Federal Way's World Vision on her groups hard work in Chile.

Sundays at 11am - Lee Callahan talks with Charlie Engle
Charlie is a world class ultramarathoner who ran the entire Sahara Desert - which was chronicled in the upcoming film, Running the Sahara. The film plays for one night only at the Admiral in West Seattle - March 10.

Sundays at 11am - Lee Callahan talks with ArtsWest
The director of the new play, Sunlight, now at ArtsWest in West Seattle.

AM 1090 Eco-Minute with Lee Callahan
A new green song suggested by an AM 1090 fan - from Tower of Power.

AM 1090 Eco-Minute with Lee Callahan
This listener reduces paper waste.

AM 1090 Eco-Minute with Lee Callahan
Listener suggests raising chickens and growing your own vegetables.

Welcome to Community Matters with Lee Callahan
Every Sunday at 11am, Lee conducts in-depth interviews with local and national newsmakers and reporters, community leaders, book authors, comedians, and people doing good work around the globe and in Western Washington. Email: lee@am1090seattle.com

Community Matters with Lee Callahan Sundays at 11am - Jill Smith
Jill Smith of the Natural Resource Law Group of Seattle on the Clean Water Act of 2010

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