Far From Home
by Scott Gurian
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"Our Grief is Not a Cry for War:" The Stories of September 11th…
"Our Grief is Not a Cry for War:" The Stories of September 11th…
About this podcast
An immersive travel and culture documentary podcast where Peabody award-winning public radio journalist Scott Gurian reports fascinating stories from faraway places and makes you feel like you’re really there! On past episodes, he’s road tripped 18,000 mi. (29,000 km) from the UK to Mongolia and back, visited Iran as an American tourist, wandered through abandoned buildings in Chernobyl, and participated in a hallucinogenic healing ceremony in Peru. Learn more and view bonus content at farfromhomepodcast.org
Episodes
The newest 20 of 102 episodes
- "Our Grief is Not a Cry for War:" The Stories of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 14On this 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, I'm re-releasing a radio documentary I produced back in 2001, along with an interview I conducted five years ago (for the…
- On the Ground in Ukraine with Terrell Jermaine Starr (with Making Peace Visible) · 33 min · Season 4 Episode 13While I'm taking a break from releasing new episodes, I wanted to share an episode of another great podcast I heard recently and that I thought all of you might enjoy. The show…
- Human Library · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 12In the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen, there's a small building with a garden and wooden seats. It's the Menneskebiblioteket or Human Library, where the "readers" and…
- Balloon Hats (repeat) · 27 min · Season 4 Episode 11When he was growing up in Southern California, Addi Somekh wasn't quite sure what to do with his life. But he knew from a young age that he wanted to "spread warmth" and make…
- Citizen of the World · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 10When he was 26 years old in 1948, Garry Davis did something that would make the rest of his life really complicated.Over the next six decades, he’d be detained and imprisoned 34…
- Foreign Aid · 47 min · Season 4 Episode 9Over the past few months, President Trump has taken a sort of a slash-and-burn approach to much of the U.S. government, and among the many taxpayer-funded programs he’s axed has…
- Hitting the Ice · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 8Montreal is a city often split between English and French languages and cultures, but one thing that almost all residents can get behind is cheering on their beloved hockey team…
- Man Without a Country · 43 min · Season 4 Episode 7The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is now entering its third year, and it’s been a humanitarian disaster. According to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, it’s…
- Christmas in Puerto Rico Revisited · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 6As we wrap up another year, I'm re-sharing an episode I originally released back at the end of 2020 about a holiday tradition I got to witness while I was visiting Puerto Rico. I…
- World Reacts to Trump · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 5As I spent time abroad over the past few months in the lead-up to the American presidential election, I was struck by how often news and politics from back home seemed to be on…
- Winging It · 27 min · Season 4 Episode 4I'm still working on my next episode, where I'm asking listeners around the world to send me short voice memo recordings from their phones, talking about how people where they…
- Canadian Cuisine · 29 min · Season 4 Episode 3If you travel around Canada, you’ll find lots of regional dishes, but there isn’t really a strong national culinary identity the way there is in Italy or Mexico, for example. So…
- Christiania bonus episode · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 2In the course of reporting my documentary about Freetown Christiania -- Copenhagen's famous anarchist commune -- for the 99% Invisible podcast, I took two trips to Denmark and…
- Freetown Christiania · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 1In 1971, a group of squatters took over an abandoned military base just across the harbor from downtown Copenhagen, Denmark. They created a a politically autonomous anarchist…
- Far From Home: Season 4 Trailer · 2 min · Season 4In this era of wars, conflicts, and polarized politics, talking to strangers has never been more important. A new season of episodes launches Tuesday, October 8th.(Thanks to Ali…
- Eclipse Chaser · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 40After missing the opportunity to see the last total solar eclipse in the United States back in 2017, I decided to add this experience to my bucket list and vowed I would do…
- Every Country Without Flying · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 39Thor Pedersen always felt like he was born too late. He grew up in a world where other people had already done most of the amazing things, like venturing to the North and South…
- Prison Rodeo · 8 min · Season 3 Episode 38After releasing my last episode where I shared stories from my time in Oklahoma many years ago, I came across one more short radio piece in my archives that I thought some of…
- Stories From Flyover Country · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 37Two decades ago, I was just starting out as a public radio reporter, applying for literally every radio job opening I saw, and somehow I ended up getting hired by a small station…
- 18 Years in Rome (with The Bittersweet Life) · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 36If you listened to my last episode, you heard the story of my friend Jamie Yuenger, an American who moved from New York City to the Netherlands and was struggling to make the…
