Free Voice
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We speak with the brave freethinking Bangladeshi author and publisher of Shuddhashar (Free Voice) Ahmedur Rashid Chowdury, who was attacked with machetes and guns by religious extremists and is now living in exile.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Welcome to Fee That Radio. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello all you stout-hearted iconoclasts. |
| 0:57.4 | That's a phrase. I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:05.7 | This is the September 8th episode of Free Thought Radio. this is our 854th show since 2006. |
| 1:14.1 | Grant Blaschka is our engineer today. |
| 1:17.1 | He's with Audio for the Arts, and he's engineering the show here in the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:25.4 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in |
| 1:28.7 | Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:30.6 | And that phrase, stout-hearted iconoclass, was something you said on an earlier show some time |
| 1:36.6 | ago. |
| 1:37.6 | And one of our other engineers, Noah Gilfellon, with Grant Blaschka, is in a band called The Earthlings, and Noah liked your phrase so much |
| 1:46.8 | Annie Laurie that he wrote a song called Stout Hearted Iconic. |
| 1:50.3 | And I didn't know that until just before the show, and you mentioned it. |
| 1:54.0 | However, Grant says we really can't play it. |
| 1:57.4 | It's not really a radio-friendly. |
| 1:58.9 | We'd have to bleep every other word, but maybe people could look up the earthlings to listen to that song. Yes, we have such talented |
| 2:05.6 | engineers here. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:12.0 | as regular listeners will know. But if you're not a regular listener, the Freedom from Religion |
| 2:16.8 | Foundation was established |
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