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Gorbachev: Geopolitical Visionary, Domestic Political Failure
Was Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev a geopolitical visionary or a leader who failed at domestic politics in Russia? In this FRDH podcast, Martin Walker…
3 years, 8 months ago
Bill Russell: Wasn't That a Time?
Bill Russell was one of the great figures of his time, and what a time it was. Russell was a man who transcended sport, a leader at the moment when a…
3 years, 9 months ago
October 1973, Dawn of America's Reactionary Age
America’s Children of WW2 Victory grew up in a time of progressive politics and have lived our adult lives in a reactionary age and the reason is the…
3 years, 10 months ago
Inflation: Now and Then
Inflation is back and in this FRDH podcast, Michael Goldfarb speaks with Financial Times columnist Martin Sandbu about the difference between inflati…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Queen and I: Jubilee Rough Draft
As Queen Elizabeth the Second celebrates her Platinum Jubilee, 70 years on the throne, this First Rough Draft of History podcast looks at how the Qu…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ukraine: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
To mark three months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine a conversation with the Economist's Wendell Steavenson who has been an eyewitness writing the…
4 years ago
FRDH on the BBC: Emancipation, Assimilation & Jewish Identity
This FRDH podcast originally broadcast on the BBC World Service looks at the story of Jewish Emancipation and how it changed Jewish identity through …
4 years ago
Ukraine War: There Are No Simple Words, It's Time for Poets
War defies simple words, it's the time when we turn to poets to make sense of the incomprehensible. In this FRDH podcast, host Michael Goldfarb spea…
4 years, 1 month ago
What is the real Russia: Tolstoy or Putin? Culture or Cruelty?
What is the real Russia? The Russia of great culture: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Akhmatova; or is it the country of dictators like Putin and S…
4 years, 1 month ago
An Odesa Story: A Tale From the Bloodlands’ Past
Odesa, on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, is a fabled city of what historian Timothy Snyder calls the Bloodlands. Part of Odesa’s legend was created by Je…
4 years, 2 months ago