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FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb

FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb•www.goldfarbpod.com
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Host FRDH podcast. Radio essayist and documentarist for the BBC and NPR. Historian and author of Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace and Emancipation.
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Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre

As the House Intelligence Committee memo alleging FBI malfeasance in its Russia investigation grabs the headlines, a look back at Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre. The Saturday Night Massacre was the hinge point of the Watergate scandal. The words coup and Third Reich were thrown around. The events of that weekend in October 1973 marked the beginning of the end of Nixon’s Presidency. Do they hold a lesson for today? President Trump has started his term of office exercising power in a similar fash...

Jun 04, 2014•15 min

Autumn 1973 Ep 2: Yom Kippur War

Turning Point in History: The Yom Kippur war in 1973 changed Israeli and Jewish psyche's as well the relationship between the Arab nations and the Palestinians.

Jun 04, 2014•15 min

Autumn 1973 Ep 1: Chilean Coup

Turning Point in History: The Chilean coup and the end of anti-war activism. First of five essays on Autuman 1973 broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Jun 04, 2014•15 min

Suicide Watch

The Cost of History: the surge in suicides among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4

May 11, 2014•28 min

WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 4 Germany

National History: Germans' constant attempt to answer the question "What is the German Nation?" has been one of the driving forces of history in the last 200 years.

Apr 30, 2014•14 min

WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan

National History: The story of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a "nation-state" of their own.

Apr 30, 2014•16 min

WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland

National History: When does a "tribe" become a "nation"? The case of Ulster's protestants or the Scotch-Irish as they are called in America

Apr 30, 2014•14 min

Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway

Cultural History: Buddha, Confucius and the first Greek taught man was responsible for his own fate not the gods. But then something strange happened: their teachings became the basis for religions anyway.

Feb 19, 2014•45 min

Faith Without God, pt 1

Cultural History: Buddha, Confucius and the first Greek philosophers all lived at precisely the same time. They were the first to say that man, not God or the gods, was the measure of all things. Coincidence? or were their civilizations in contact with each other? In this documentary, originally made for BBC Radio 3, archaeologists, historians and philosophers offer their answers.

Feb 19, 2014•45 min
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