Take a listen to an entire episode of The Agenda!  This "Best Of" show is being broadcast on December 25th and is available below to download in full.  Enjoy!

Segment 1 - Show open: Joe and Mary banter
Segment 2 - The News: Michael’s report on political ads in 2006
Segment 3 - Cup of Joe: Julian Bond, civil rights hero
Segment 4 - Cup of Joe: Jennifer Holliday, Broadway star
Segment 5 - Cup of Joe: Carol Liefer, comedian
Segment 6 - The Skinny: Gretchen & Kathryn Hamm of GayWeddings.com
Segment 7 - The Skinny: NYT Ethicist Randy Cohen
Segment 8 - Point of View: Bishop Gene Robinson and Rev. Susan Russell
Segment 9 - Point of View: Former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry
Segment 10 - The Rewind: Joe and Mary wrap-up and preview of next week

The Agenda is in full holiday mode this week preparing our “Best Of” show for next week and taking stock of the past year. With that in mind, Christopher Radko joined us last night to talk about his holiday ornaments that have become must-haves for collectors worldwide. Famed party planner Bryan Rafanelli joined us by phone from Miami, where he was planning Harry Connick Jr.’s New Year’s Eve bash. Rafanelli shared some of his tricks of the trade for planning a great party any time of year.

But it wasn’t all holiday talk last night. Ilene Chaiken — creator and executive producer of The L Word— joined us to talk about the new season premiering in January and a new online social networking site for women called OurChart.com. Listen to segment one and two.

It wouldn’t be an episode of The Agenda without a healthy dose of politics so we started out by paying tribute to the late Rep. Gerry Studds. Mary brought us this report from his memorial service last week in Boston. Sylvia Larsen, the New Hampshire Senate president-elect, also joined us to talk about how the tide was turned for fairness in the Granite State.

Finally, syndicated columnist and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne shared his insights in Point of View. Listen to the fascinating conversation here

Joe was out of town this Monday so we were delighted to have Kevin Naff, editor of The Washington Blade, join us as guest host. We thought we’d also bring in some more GLBT news editors for a roundtable discussion on the news of the day and year in Point of View. Susan Ryan-Volmer of Bay Windows in Boston and Cynthia Laird of The Bay Area Reporter in San Francisco were our guests.

In The News segment, we talked with Jeanne White, mother of AIDS activist Ryan White, on the passage of the CARE Act reauthorization that was named for her heroic son. Listen to the segment here

Since the celebration of Hanukkah begins this week, we had Rabbi Denise Eger join us to talk about the holiday season and the recent decision by the Conservative branch of Judaism to allow openly gay and lesbian rabbis as well as the blessing of same-sex unions. You can listen to Eger here

We always say that the GLBT community is everywhere, and the work of Gary Gates has proven that fact. Gates is a senior research fellow at The Williams Institute — the UCLA Law School’s pre-eminent think tank on GLBT issues. Having co-written The Gay & Lesbian Atlas, he is the nation’s leading expert on GLBT demography and geography. Hear Gates’ insights here

Finally, New York Times columnist Bob Morris, who writes the must-read Style column "The Age of Dissonance," joined us to talk about the madness of the holiday season. Hear Morris in parts one and two