Higgs Update (2:26) by Kash Farooq (ft Jon Butterworth)
Comic Sans (11:50) by James O’Malley (ft Vincent Connare)
BBC Micro (19:05) by Salim Fadhley (ft Steve Furber)
Anti-Vax Folk Fest (26:54) by Andrew Gould
Solar System: From iPad to book (33:40) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Marcus Chown)
Sesame Street Socialists (42:47) by Tom Hodden
Festival of the Spoken Nerd (47:48) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Matt Parker, Helen Arney & Steve Mould)
Science Cabaret (55:38) by Dean Burnett
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two

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Nadine Dorries & “Extreme Humanists” (1:42) by Dave Cross
New Humanist Respond (7:12) by James O’Malley (ft Paul Sims)
Anonymous (13:42) by Drew Rae
Church Tax Dodgers (20:27) by Salim Fadhley (ft Annie Laurie Gaylor)
SRE And Anti-Choice (28:23) by Laura Hurley & Lisa Hallgarten
Pi Digits (37:21) by Peter Rowlett
LHC Update (42:57) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Jon Butterworth at UCL, as part of the London Science Festival)
Conway Memorial Lecture (49:15) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Philip Schofield)
Breast Cancer Marketing (57:30) by Paul Day

Follow-Up Links:

• New Humanist Bad Faith Award
• Education for Choice
• Listen to the Conway Memorial Lecture in full
• The Bentham Project
• London Science Festival
• The Holyoake Lecture in Full
• Islam in a Secular Europe Debate

The video of the guinea pig to watch to accompany the SRE report is after the break.

Special Extended Episode!
Libel Reform Campaign launch (1:13) by Jack of Kent
Homeopathy Select Committees (9:26) by Martin Robbins
The future of NATO (16:24) by James O’Malley
Darwin’s Detractors (23:07) by Liz Lutgendorff
In defence of Bob Crow (27:38) by Pete Hague
Cult of the Phone Geek (34:00) by Gareth Buxton
People with colds (41:21) by Martyn Norris
The end of the World As We Know It (44:17) by George Poles

Follow-up links from the episode:

• The Libel Reform Campaign

This week:
EXCLUSIVE: Skeptical Voter Launch (0:49) by Richard Wilson
Glenn Beck 1990 (3:45) by Salim Fadhley
Hollywood Skepticism (9:54) by Jon Treadway
Skepticism vs Denial (16:00) by Crispian Jago
Downloading TV (20:57) by Mark Thompson
Large Hadron Collider (25:49) by Professor Wilhelm Howells

Follow-ups from things mentioned in the show:

• Check out the SKEPTICAL VOTER website to find out more about it, and how to get involved!