Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)

A controversial lecturer and famous orator of the mid 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of orthodox Christianity, tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s rights, abolition, home, family, children, and human liberty, whose creed was: “Happiness is the only good, Reason the only torch, Justice the only worship, Humanity the only religion, and Love the only priest.” He was often attacked from the pulpit and in the press. Here are 30 more published interviews (from among hundreds), in which Ingersoll spoke extemporaneously, bitingly, sometimes hilariously, on a wide range of topics, with newspaper reporters of the day. (Compiled from The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 8, Dresden Edition, Pub. 1900. Summary by Michele Fry

Proof-listening was done by both readers in each duet.

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Atheism & Agnosticism

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Guiteau and his Crime Claudia Salto
Michele Fry
00:20:06
Play 02 Star Route and Politics Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:17:52
Play 03 Politics and Prohibition Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:07:46
Play 04 The Civil Rights Bill Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:06:48
Play 05 Cuba - Zola and Theosophy Michele Fry
J. Alan Brown
00:07:02
Play 06 Capital Punishment and the Whipping Post Michele Fry
Joseph Tabler
00:04:51
Play 07 Expansion and Trusts Michele Fry
J. Alan Brown
00:05:45
Play 08 Politics and General Grant Michele Fry
J. Alan Brown
00:12:45
Play 09 Justice Harlan and the Civil Rights Bill Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:17:04
Play 10 Ingersoll Catechised Roger Melin
Michele Fry
00:23:59
Play 11 The Labor Question Herman Roskams
Michele Fry
00:04:22
Play 12 Henry George and Socialism Herman Roskams
Michele Fry
00:10:39
Play 13 Ingersoll on McGlynn Michele Fry
J. Alan Brown
00:17:42
Play 14 Trial of the Chicago Anarchists Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:12:14
Play 15 The Stage and the Pulpit Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:20:06
Play 16 Protection and Free Trade Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:17:33
Play 17 Labor, and Tariff Reform Kristin G.
Michele Fry
00:20:35
Play 18 James G. Blaine and Politics Michele Fry
Joseph Tabler
00:07:52
Play 19 Society and its Criminals Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:32:14
Play 20 Woma's Right to Divorce Kristin G.
Michele Fry
00:15:21
Play 21 Music, Newspapers, Lynching and Arbitration Herman Roskams
Michele Fry
00:14:03
Play 22 Prohibition Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:21:06
Play 23 Working Girls Kristin G.
Michele Fry
00:14:28
Play 24 Protection For American Actors Michele Fry
J. Alan Brown
00:19:02
Play 25 Woman's Suffrage, Horse Racing, and Money Kristin G.
Michele Fry
00:06:24
Play 26 Missionaries Michele Fry
Scott Danneker
00:03:07
Play 27 Word Painting and College Education Michele Fry
Edward Kirkby
00:03:58
Play 28 Tolstoy and Literature Kristin G.
Michele Fry
00:07:38
Play 29 The Church and the Stage Herman Roskams
Michele Fry
00:25:43
Play 30 A Visit To Shaw's Garden Michele Fry
Scott Danneker
00:03:15