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October 25, 2026 · 58 min

In this archive-sound based documentary for the BBC produced by FRDH host Michael Goldfarb , veteran reporter James Traub tells the story of how in the 1930s, radio priest Father Coughlin and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ruled America's…
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In the 21st century, with climate change unleashed, the Arctic is the new geopolitical frontline, or is it the fault line? The arctic ocean is now navigable for months of the year, the more than 500 year search for a northern passage from…
Paul Schrader on His Prescient Film Blue Collar

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Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar is one of the most prescient films of that superlative cinema decade the 1970s. It was a film that foresaw the coming of the Rust Belt, post-Civil Rights era racial animosity, and extraordinary wealth…
Resisting Hamas: A Gazan Voice in the Wilderness

August 5, 2026 · 56 min

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Writing History As Resistance and Defiance: Mosul Eye

July 26, 2026 · 45 min

In June 2014, when ISIS swept into Iraq's second city Mosul, historian Omar Mohammed immediately began documenting the terrorist occupation of his hometown as and act of Resistance and Defiance. Now Mohammed has written a book, Mosul Eye…

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We Are Not Machines: Fighting the AI Apocalypse

July 19, 2026 · 56 min

Financial Times correspondent Sarah O'Connor talks about her new book We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work which is about AI and the coming jobs apocalypse. In this wide ranging conversation with FRDH host Michael…
Robin Lustig’s Story: Fate, Family, and Survival

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In "And the Cello Came Too" former BBC news presenter Robin Lustig tells the story of his family and how fate determined who survived and who didn't the worst event of the twentieth century. But this conversation goes deeper, than just a…
A Morbid Symptom of Our Time: Anti-Vax

May 31, 2026 · 54 min

The Anti-Vax movement is a morbid symptom of our time. Whoever writes the history of America's unraveling will have to pay attention to anti-vax and refer to Kira Kieffer's book Unvaccinated Under God a thorough study of its nearly 50 year…
Howard Jacobson: Shattered Illusions and Anti-Semitism post-October 7th

May 15, 2026 · 58 min

Man Booker-prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson 's new novel is about how the Hamas massacre on October 7th, 2023 shattered illusions for diaspora Jews and enabled anti-Semitism to come out of the shadows. And because it is by Jacobson…
How America Looks From the Other Side of the World: with Nick Bryant

May 4, 2026 · 46 min

How does America look from the other side of the world? Nick Bryant, ex-BBC America correspondent who covered every president from Clinton to Trump joins FRDH podcast host Michaell Goldfarb from his home in Australia to talk about , well…
Jan Morris, Traveler, Author, Enigma: A Conversation With Biographer Sara Wheeler

April 5, 2026 · 54 min

Jan Morris was one of the best known travel writers since World War 2, yet despite her fame she is an engima. The reason is simple. At the height of her success in the early 1970s she transitioned from male to female. The reasons for her…
Iran: Why now? What Next? A Diplomat's Long View

March 17, 2026 · 46 min

As Trump's war on Iran enters its third week with the Strait of Hormuz blocked and the world economy facing a shock, Rob Macaire, British Ambassador to Iran 2018-2021 offers a diplomat's view of the how, why and what next to get out of the…