New Humanist: Ideas for godless people

Laurie Taylor

Endgame: Whine dining
Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012)
What's wrong with university? Laurie Taylor interviews Stefan Collini
Vol.127, Issue 2 (March/April 2012)
Endgame: Artful dodger
Vol.127, Issue 2 (March/April 2012)
Endgame: Still life
Vol.127, Issue 1 (January/February 2012)
Endgame: Ex con
Vol.126, Issue 6 (November/December 2011)
Endgame: Never let me go
Vol.126, Issue 5 (September/October 2011)
Endgame: The wrong note
Vol.126, Issue 4 (July/August 2011)
Ways of seeing John Berger
Vol.126, Issue 4 (July/August 2011)
Trace elements: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall
Vol.126, Issue 3 (May/June 2011)
Endgame: Blank check up
Vol.126, Issue 3 (May/June 2011)
Endgame: Miles of sex
Vol.126, Issue 2 (March/April 2011)
Mortal fear? Laurie Taylor interviews Lewis Wolpert
Vol.126, Issue 2 (March/April 2011)
Delusions of grandeur
Vol.126, Issue 1 (January/February 2011)
Endgame: The Mild One
Vol.126, Issue 1 (January/February 2011)
Endgame: Now let us praise me
Vol.125, Issue 6 (November/December 2010)
Calm down, old boy: Laurie Taylor interviews Simon Heffer
Vol.125, Issue 6 (November/December 2010)
No nonsense: Laurie Taylor interviews Mary Warnock
Vol.125, Issue 5 (September/October 2010)
Endgame: Time is money
Vol.125, Issue 5 (September/October 2010)
Of human greed: Laurie Taylor interviews David Harvey
Vol.125, Issue 4 (July/August 2010)
Endgame: Never give up
Vol.125, Issue 4 (July/August 2010)
Who's who?
Vol.125, Issue 3 (May/June 2010)
The cosy atheist: Laurie Taylor interviews Rebecca Goldstein
Vol.125, Issue 3 (May/June 2010)
Endgame: Aura & out
Vol.125, Issue 2 (March/April 2010)
Suffer the little children
Vol.125, Issue 1 (January/February 2010)
Endgame: Brain drain
Vol.125, Issue 1 (January/February 2010)
Endgame: Crying out loud
Vol.124, Issue 6 (November/December 2009)
Endgame: Con trick
Vol.124, Issue 5 (September/October 2009)
Tragic hero: Laurie Taylor interviews Terry Eagleton
Vol.124, Issue 4 (July/August 2009)
A paon in the arse
Vol.124, Issue 4 (July/August 2009)
Endgame: Star struck
Vol.124, Issue 3 (May/June 2009)
Endgame: What's my line?
Vol.124, Issue 2 (March/April 2009)
Endgame: One track mind
Vol.124, Issue 1 (January/February 2009)
Uncertainty principle
Vol.123, Issue 6 (November/December 2008)
End Game: Nailed down
Vol.123, Issue 6 (November/December 2008)
Endgame: Walk on by
Vol.123, Issue 5 (September/October 2008)
The genius myth: Laurie Taylor interviews Lisa Jardine
Vol.123, Issue 4 (July/August 2008)
Endgame: Back to basics
Vol.123, Issue 4 (July/August 2008)
Motley crew
Vol.123, Issue 3 (May/June 2008)
Craft works: Laurie Taylor interviews Richard Sennett
Vol.123, Issue 2 (March/April 2008)
End Game: Sound of silence
Vol.123, Issue 2 (March/April 2008)
Interview: Watching David Attenborough
Vol.123, Issue 1 (January/February 2008)
End Game: Lean on me
Vol.123, Issue 1 (January/February 2008)
End game: Bursting out
Vol.122, Issue 6 (November/December 2007)
Only joking
Vol.122, Issue 5 (September/October 2007)
End Game: Faking it
Vol.122, Issue 5 (September/October 2007)
End Game: . . .said Alice
Vol.122, Issue 4 (July/August 2007)
Charity Balls: Interview with Richard Curtis
Vol.122, Issue 4 (July/August 2007)
Blind faith
Vol.122, Issue 3 (May/June 2007)
End Game: Heard this one?
Vol.122, Issue 3 (May/June 2007)
Secret openings
Vol.122, Issue 2 (March/April 2007)
End Game: Smarty pants
Vol.122, Issue 2 (March/April 2007)
Gentle rottweiler: Laurie Taylor interviews Richard Dawkins
Vol.122, Issue 1 (January/February 2007)
End Game: Mixed feelings
Vol.122, Issue 1 (January/February 2007)
Slapstick and pratfalls: Laurie Taylor interviews John Mortimer
Vol.121, Issue 6 (November/December 2006)
End Game: Deaf becomes him
Vol.121, Issue 6 (November/December 2006)
The story so far: Laurie Taylor interviews Michael Frayn
Vol.121, Issue 5 (September/October 2006)
End Game: States of disbelief
Vol.121, Issue 5 (September/October 2006)
Hot flushes
Vol.121, Issue 4 (July/August 2006)
Judgement days
Vol.121, Issue 3 (May/June 2006)
Sinking feeling
Vol.121, Issue 3 (May/June 2006)
Culture's revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall
Vol.121, Issue 2 (March/April 2006)
Anorak attack
Vol.121, Issue 2 (March/April 2006)
Going nowhere: Laurie Taylor interviews John Gray
Vol.121, Issue 1 (January/February 2006)
Learning to love yourself
Vol.120, Issue 6 (November/December 2005)
Line of beauty: Laurie Taylor interviews Edmund White
Vol.120, Issue 6 (November/December 2005)
Ol' misery guts
Vol.120, Issue 5 (September/October 2005)
No more Mr Nice Guy: Laurie Taylor on Michael Ignatieff
Vol.120, Issue 5 (September/October 2005)
Aura Bore
Vol.120, Issue 4 (July/August 2005)
Serious intent: Laurie Taylor interviews Isabel Hilton
Vol.120, Issue 4 (July/August 2005)
Not waving, but dying
Vol.120, Issue 3 (May/June 2005)
Defender of faiths: Laurie Taylor interviews Eileen Barker
Vol.120, Issue 3 (May/June 2005)
Alehouse rock: Laurie Taylor interviews Tom Baker
Vol.120, Issue 2 (March/April 2005)
No more Mr Nice Guy
Vol.120, Issue 2 (March/April 2005)
When I'm gone
Vol.120, Issue 1 (January/February 2005)
Carbolic and Confession: Laurie Taylor interviews Helena Kennedy
Vol.120, Issue 1 (January/February 2005)
God of small meetings
Vol.119, Issue 6 (November/December 2004)
The Golden Rule of Compassion: Laurie Taylor interviews Karen Armstrong
Vol.119, Issue 6 (November/December 2004)
Heavenly bodies
Vol.119, Issue 5 (September/October 2004)
Anarchist with attitude: Laurie Taylor interviews Linda Smith
Vol.119, Issue 5 (September/October 2004)
Pie in the sky
Vol.119, Issue 4 (July/August 2004)
The other side of the street: Laurie Taylor interviews Stan Cohen
Vol.119, Issue 4 (July/August 2004)
Learning to fly: Laurie Taylor interviews Ralph Steadman
Vol.119, Issue 3 (May/June 2004)
Fighting talk
Vol.119, Issue 3 (May/June 2004)
Exiled from Redemption: Laurie Taylor interviews Marina Warner
Vol.119, Issue 2 (March/April 2004)
Reader's digest
Vol.119, Issue 1 (January/February 2004)
'That's for the fellahs!': Laurie Taylor interviews Beryl Bainbridge
Vol.119, Issue 1 (January/February 2004)
A word from our sponsor
Vol.118, Issue 4 (November/December 2003)
This is my Truth: Laurie Taylor interviews Clare Short
Vol.118, Issue 4 (November/December 2003)
I Give Up
Vol.118, Issue 3 (September/October 2003)
The luxury of doubt: Laurie Taylor interviews Will Self
Vol.118, Issue 3 (September/October 2003)
Hail to thee blithe Ken
Vol.118, Issue 2 (Summer 2003)
Permanent Uncertainty: Laurie Taylor interviews Stephen Fry
Vol.118, Issue 2 (Summer 2003)
Count me out
Vol.118, Issue 1 (Spring 2003)
Leggo Relijan: Laurie Taylor interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson
Vol.118, Issue 1 (Spring 2003)
Walking in the Dark: Laurie Taylor interviews Jonathan Miller
Vol.117, Issue 4 (Winter 2002)
Folie a Deux
Vol.117, Issue 4 (Winter 2002)
Puritan Atheist: Laurie Taylor interviews Christopher Hitchens
Vol.117, Issue 3 (Autumn 2002)
FCUK Off
Vol.117, Issue 3 (Autumn 2002)
The Tyranny of Multiculturalism: Laurie Taylor interviews Adam Kuper
Vol.117, Issue 2 (Summer 2002)
Bring back that human feeling
Vol.116, Issue 4 (Winter 2001)
Thinking allowed
Vol.116, Issue 2 (Summer 2001)

Laurie Taylor

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Laurie Taylor is the chairman of the Rationalist Assocation and the commissioning editor of New Humanist. He presents Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 and has made numerous television and radio programmes. He is currently filming a series of close-up interviews - including Jonathan Miller and Richard Dawkins - to be broadcast later in 2010. In another life he was a Professor of Sociology at the University of York  and the author of books on criminiology and parenthood. He has more honorary degrees than you could shake a very large stick at. See Laurie Taylor backstage at the Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People show, 20 Dec 2009.


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