The Pod Delusion
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The Pod Delusion is a weekly podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 about "interesting things". The usual format is a series of brief monologues from a variety of amateur contributors, usually discussing topics from a viewpoint that is best described as skeptical and humanist. It often features interviews with well known individuals sharing this viewpoint, such as Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre
Ben Michael Goldacre born 1974 is a British science writer, doctor and psychiatrist. He is the author of The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column and a book of the same title, published by Fourth Estate in September 2008....

, Richard Herring
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...

, Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...

, or Mark Steel
Mark Steel
Mark Steel is a British socialist columnist, author and comedian. He was a member of the Socialist Workers Party from his late teens until 2007.-Early life:...

.

The title is a punning homage to Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...

's bestselling book The God Delusion
The God Delusion
The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that...

, which articulates many of the viewpoints shared by contributors.

The Pod Delusion is edited and presented by James O'Malley. Frequent contributors include Liz Lutgendorff, Marsh, Simon Howard, Dean Burnett, Sean Ellis, Drew Rae, Jon Treadway, Crispian Jago, Jennie Rigg and James Thomas.
The Pod Delusion is a partner of the British Humanist Association
British Humanist Association
The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism and represents "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs." The BHA is committed to secularism, human rights, democracy, egalitarianism and mutual respect...


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