New Douglas Adams Audio (1:51) by Jon Treadway (ft Stephen Fry, Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams)
Julian Huppert on LibDem Science Policy (11:56) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
Jesus & Mo at the LSE (23:45) by James O’Malley (ft Chris Moos)
Adam Rutherford Interview (31:26) by Liz Lutgendorff
Technological Progress (40:58) by Drew Rae
My Little Brony (50:00) by Salim Fadhley (ft Coder Brony)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two

Follow-Up Links

Douglas Adams Links:

• Douglas Adams: The Party at Hammersmith Apollo
• Save The Rhino
• Douglas Adams Animation Competition
• Listen to our Douglas Adams tribute documentary here

Other Links:

• Preparing the Ground: The new LibDem digital policy
• To contribute to Julian Huppert’s LibDem science policy, e-mail: libdemsciencepolicy@gmail.com
• BHA Darwin Day lecture with Adam Rutherford
• Brony Herd Census

SOPA Blackout (2:05) by Georgia Gale Grant
Behind the scenes at the Wikipedia blackout (9:33) by Tom Morris
Figshare (17:58) by Jon Treadway (ft Mark Hahnel)
Teletubbies Scandal (27:36) by Salim Fadhley (ft Dave Thompson)
The Sex Party (39:33) by Chris Huang-Lever
Scotland and Tory England (45:17) by Keir Liddle
A Bugs’ Life (50:16) by Adam Jacobs (ft Matt Shardlow)
Videogames and Morality (60:16) by Trent Burton
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two

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Follow-Up Links:

• Figshare
• The Sex Life of a Comedian by Dave Thompson
• Dave Thompson’s website
• Chris’s full interview with Fiona Patten:
  
  

Georgia’s SOPA Links:

• Pirates at Sony and Fox
• Khan Academy Explains SOPA
• Reddit’s technical examination of SOPA
• CDT on SOPA
• A day without PZ Myers
• xkcd on SOPA

Adam’s neonicotinoids links:

• Adam’s Interview in full:
  
• The PLoS One paper on neonicotinoids
• The review of neonicotinoids by Kindemba, commissioned by Buglife in 2009
• Cresswell 2010
• Interaction between Nosema infection and neonicotinoids in bees
• Bug Life

Featuring…
Is Science More Important Than Arts? by Jon Treadway
Cameron Therapy by Sean Ellis
Science Wooseum Update by Marianne Baker
Faulty Memories by Sophie Scott
Incest! by Jess Vautier
Riot Olympics by Salim Fadhley
Arab Spring by DLandonCole
Perception by Dr*T
Cognitive Economics by Leigh Caldwell
Amazing Music by Helen Arney

Follow-Up Links:

• Helen Arney on Bandcamp
• More Helen Arney (including live dates)

DEAct Judicial Review (1:35) by James Firth
Local Elections Preview (8:49) by Alex Foster
Regenerating Margate (18:33) by Jon Treadway
Gay Blood Donation (27:32) by Salim Fadhley (ft Peter Tatchell)
Wikipedia & Academia (34:48) by Harriet Vickers (ft Charles Matthews)
The Christ Conundrum (40:33) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Andrew Carruth)
Atlas Shrugged (49:11) by Paul Day
BHA Conference (54:45) by James O’Malley (ft Andrew Copson)

Follow-Up Links

• Alex Foster’s Local Elections piece in full:
  
• Liz’s interview with Andrew Carruth in full:
  
  

• Buy The Christ Conundrum by Andrew Carruth here
• Find out more about the BHA Conference here

See the video of the guinea pigs to watch whilst listening to James Firth’s piece about the Digital Economy Act after the break (this will make sense if you listen to the show):

Gideon’s Budget (2:14) by Jon Treadway
Crossing the Italians (9:44) by Nick Boorer
The Vatican Fries Your Brain (16:10) by Tessa Kendall
Antivaxers and Paul Offit (22:18) by Dave Woodward
NHS Outcomes Framework (30:18) by Simon Howard
Dirk Gently Recommissioned (42:46) by Jon Treadway (ft Stephen Mangan and Ed Victor)
Roy Zimmerman on Ted Haggard (48:5) by Salim Fadhley
Post-credit appeal by Sean Ellis

Secularist of the Year (3:42) by James O’Malley (ft Sophie in’t Veld)
Sue Cox interview (11:27) by Liz Lutgendorff
Principles of war in Libya (18:10) by Adam Jacobs
The Great Stagnation (28:06) by Jon Treadway (ft Tyler Cowen)
Technological Stagnation (38:07) by Pete Hague
Meteorites and LIFE (45:29) by Kash Farooq
Georgie Clause is coming to town (49:32) by Will Battle & James Firth (lyrics after the break)

Charity appeals at the beginning and end are by Sean Ellis & Martyn Norris.

Follow-up links:

• Listen to Secularist of the Year in full (ft AC Grayling & Sophie in’t Veld)
• Survivor’s Voice Europe
• Tyler Cowen
• Buy Tyler’s Book

Georgie Claus is coming to town

You better watch out
You might want to cry
The Budget’s Out
And Osborne’s been sly

Georgie Claus is coming to town!
He’s made a list
It’s quite precise
A Tory mix of naughty and nice
Georgie Claus is coming to town!
His swinging cuts are sweeping,
But there’s icing on the cake!
A 1p cut in petrol prices
Makes up for that heart ache!

But you better watch out!
You might want to cry

Libraries are shut,
And inflation is high!
Georgie claus is coming to town
Georgie claus is coming to town

You better watch out
You might want to cry

naught-point-eight percent cut
When fuel tax so high

Georgie Claus is coming to town!
Here’s the jist,
He’s skating on ice,
The headlines to-mor-row may well be nice
Georgie Claus is coming to town!
The de-vils in the detail!
His spin and lies are fake
A 1p cut in petrol prices
Is a cherry on a slipper snake!

So! you better watch out!
You might want to cry

You pay your tax

City traders get high!

Georgie claus is coming to town
Georgie claus is coming to town

And his bullshit budget will cost you a crown

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Plain Cigarette Packaging (1:56) by Simon Howard
Susan Blackmore Interview (8:08) by Jon Treadway
E-Book Bill Of Rights (16:16) by Salim Fadhley
The Guttenberg Affair (25:10) by Sven Rudloff
Brain Scanning (34:14) by Dean Burnett
The Grant Museum (41:22) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Jack Ashby)

Follow-up links:

• The Grant Museum

Pod Delusion EXTRA:

• Robin Ince at the AHS Convention last Saturday
• Johann Hari and AC Grayling, Lord Warner, The BHA Chief Exec and NSS Deputy President at the AHS Convention
• Learn how to subscribe to Pod Delusion Extra
• CaSE Distinguised Lecture 2011 with Shadow Business Secretary John Denham

Ex-Daily Star Rich Peppiatt Interview (1:54) by Sean Ellis
Shadow Business Secretary John Denham Interview (8:59) by James O’Malley
The New Defamation Bill (16:03) by James Thomas (ft Naomi MacAuliffe, Simon Singh and Julian Huppert MP)
The BHA Census Campaign Poster Row (22:59) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Bob Churchill)
Green Party Science Policy (28:35) by James O’Malley (ft Jim Jepps)
Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2011 (36:21) by Jon Treadway (ft Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince)

Follow-up links:

• The Daily Star’s Response to Rich Peppiatt (see bottom of page)
• Full interview with Rich Peppiatt
• Listen to the Campaign for Science and Engineering Lecture with John Denham in full
• CaSE
• The Libel Reform Campaign
• The Census Campaign
• The Green Party
• Listen to our Douglas Adams Tribute Podcast
• Save The Rhino

This special episode is presented by Jon Treadway and features contributions from many people who knew or were influenced by Douglas Adams, including:

• Stephen Mangan, star of the Dirk Gently TV adaption
• Mark Carwardine, co-writer of Last Chance To See
• Stephen Pinker, author and previous Memorial Lecture presenter
• Dirk Maggs, producer of the Hitchhikers radio series
• Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in both the TV and radio series
• Dave Stirling, founder of Save The Rhino
• James Thrift, Adams’ half brother
• Ed Victor, Adams’ literary agent
• Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician and previous Memorial Lecture presenter

If you enjoy this special or would like to do something in memory of Douglas Adams, please consider donating to Save The Rhino.

DFID and the Pope (2:18) by Jon Treadway (ft Naomi Phillips)
Darwin Day Lecture (6:24) by Jon Treadway (ft Richard Dawkins & Armand Leroi)
Geek Manifesto (9:48) by James O’Malley (ft Mark Henderson)
Pentecostal Boot Camp (21:08) by Salim Fadhley (ft Tyler Bowden)
Risk Management (30:54) by Drew Rae & David Couch

Follow-up links:

• Come to our LIVE RECORDING in Southampton on Feb 26th – Details Here
• Special Darwin Day Lecture Podcast w/ Richard Dawkins & Armand Leroi
• Westminster Skeptics Geek Manifesto Podcast (coming Friday evening)