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Libel Reform in the Queen’s Speech (2:42) by James O’Malley (ft Sile Lane)
Don’t Destroy Research (6:10) by Tracey Brown & Sile Lane (ft Toby Bruce & Huw Jones)
Kony 2012 (19:05) by Michael Story
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Interview (27:04) by Liz Lutgendorff
Do Not Resusitate (36:05) by Simon Howard
ACE creationism (45:38) by Jonny Scaramanga
Before Watchmen (51:08) by Declan O’Riordan
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two

Follow-Up Links:

• Libel Reform Campaign
• Don’t Destroy Research (on the Sense About Science website)
• Full tour of Rothamsted Research with Sense About Science
• Full Jocelyn Bell Burnell Interview
• InTech Science Centre and Planetarium
• Athena Swan Awards

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Vaughan Jones Interview (2:08) by James O’Malley
Galloway’s Bradford Spring (11:18) by Blakeley Nixon
Pro-Choice Protest (16:00) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff
The Christian Definition of Marriage (22:04) by Salim Fadhley (ft Robert M Price)
Biobank (33:05) by Adam Jacobs
Lobbyists and Lobbylists (43:25) by Cory Hazlehurst
A Titantic Story (51:12) by Tom Hodden (read by Alex Foster)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two

Follow-Up Links

• Libel Reform Campaign
• Vaughan Jones
• Read the full Vaughan Jones Libel Judgement here
• Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance
• WATCH: Our video report from the Pro-Choice Protest
• The Human Bible
• Mark Harper lobbyists event in Birmingham (as mentioned in Cory’s report)
• Unlock Democracy’s page on opening up lobbying

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NHS Risk Register (3:32) by Drew Rae
Delia Smith (9:36) by Tom Williamson
Dodgy Abortion Counselling (16:29) by James O’Malley (ft Laura Hurley & Lisa Hallgarten)
Assisted Dying (26:36) by Adam Jacobs
Libel Reform (37:03) by James O’Malley (ft Hardeep Singh & Vaughan Jones)
Queen Mary’s Sharia Rejig (45:46) by James O’Malley (ft Simon and Robert from QM Atheist Soc)
Ophelia Benson Interview (50:49) by Liz Lutgendorff
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy & Brian Two
The recipe at the end is by Martyn Norris

Follow-Up Links:

• Education for Choice
• Full Vaughan Jones / Hardeep Singh Libel Reform chat:
  
• Libel Reform Campaign
• Butterflies and Wheels (Ophelia Benson’s website)
• Buy Does God Hate Women? Co-authored by Ophelia Benson

Winterval (1:45) by Dave Cross
Libel Reform Lobby (8:43) by Trish Hann
Silencing Protest (12:46) by Steven Sumpter
Necromancy (17:59) by Drew Rae
Talking to the Dead (22:21) by Sarah Angliss
Space Toys (29:27) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Craig Leff & Kevin Fong at London Science Festival)
Guerilla Skepticism (41:21) by Kylie Sturgess (ft Susan Gerbic)
Prime Numbers (50:39) by Peter Rowlett (ft Samuel Hanson)
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two

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Libel Reform Links:

• The Libel Reform Campaign

Space Links:

• London Science Festival
• Craig Leff
• Kevin Fong

Sarah Angliss’s Links:

• Fortean Times Unconvention
• Florence Nightingale’s voice (original recording is in the British Library)
• Venetian Moon (performed by Rae Eleanor Ball) –
  Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, University of California

• Herb Morrison, reporting on the arrival of the ill-fated Hindenberg airship, Lakehurst, New Jersey, 6 May 1937
• Memento mori – Victorian post-mortem photographs (Possibly NSFW – it’s pretty disturbing anyway)

Kylie’s Links:

• Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia
• Milton’s Awesome Music (he does the Pod Delusion themetune too!)

Peter’s Links:

• Acme Science

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

Alternative Vote (1:44) by Alex Foster
Tevatron Obituary (8:36) by Sean Ellis
Wikipedia at 10 (14:46) by Tom Morris
ECHR Libel Reform (21:26) by Gareth Winchester
Theology in Academia (29:13) by Drew Rae
Libraries (35:26) by Reggie

This week presented by Liz Lutgendorff as James has had some exciting emergency surgery.

Follow-up links:

• Come to our show at the QED Conference
• Winchester Skeptics have a new venue
• Bath Skeptics launch this week

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Science is Vital Wins (1:31) by Jenny Rohn
JREF’s UK Plans (4:58) by James O’Malley (ft DJ Grothe and James Randi)
The Nightingale Collaboration (14:52) by Sean Ellis (ft Alan Henness)
Geek Calendar Launch (21:07) by James O’Malley (ft Mike Harris and Gia Milinovich)
Conscientious Objection & the EU (28:07) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Tessa Kendall)
Faking Faith (34:28) by Salim Fadhley (ft Andrew Penman)

Follow-up links:

• Science is Vital
• The Nightingale Collaboration
• Geek Calendar
• Tessa’s Blog
• Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein speaks to the BHA
• This week’s Westminster Skeptics podcast

Science is Vital Rally (1:36) recorded by James O’Malley
Sally Bercow vs Migration Watch (10:56) recorded by James O’Malley
The Census Campaign (13:15) by Liz Lutgendorff (ft Andrew Copson)
The Browne Review (22:04) by Drew Rae
Chris Atkins Interview (27:39) by Jon Treadway

Follow up links:

• Science is Vital Campaign
• Our Science is Vital Coverage in full
• Full Westminster Skeptics Podcast
• The Census Campaign
• QED Con

Twitter and the Election (1:38) by George Poles
What next for Evan Harris? (7:52) by James O’Malley
What next for Libel Reform? (9:37) by James O’Malley
Fair Votes Protest (12:10) by Misty
Women and the Election (16:25) by Tania Glyde
Five Live (22:56) by Simon Howard
Subsistance Farming (24:06) by Salim Fadhley

Follow up links:

• Atheist Ireland
• Libel Reform Campaign

The Libel Reform Campaign is hosting the official “Free Speech Hustings” of the General Election 2010 in association with English PEN, Index on Censorship and Sense About Science. Speaking at the event will be Dominic Grieve from the Conservatives, Evan Harris from the Liberal Democrats and Michael Wills from the Labour Party who will go head to head over libel law reform and protecting our freedom of speech.

When the live broadcast begins, the square in the top right will be RED AND GLOWING – click this to listen.

The parties in libel reform by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff (ft Simon Singh, Lord Bach, Joanne Cash, Evan Harris)
Hung Parliaments by Malden Capell
Requiem for a Species by Dave Cole (ft Clive Hamilton)
The Placebo Effect by Mike Hall
iPad by Salim Fadhley

Follow up links:

• Please get involved with Skeptical Voter
• Dave’s interview with Clive Hamilton uncut:
  

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