27 min
First of a Two Part Interview with London Based Journalist Michael Goldfarb Quarantine Island Discs
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In November 1985, Goldfarb moved to London to pursue a career in journalism. He has reported from 25 countries on five continents.
He reported on the arts for British and American newspapers, particularly The Guardian and Newsday. He became a critic for BBC Radio 4 and this work led him into broadcast journalism with National Public Radio (NPR).
From 1990 to 1998, Goldfarb worked for NPR, from 1996 to 1998 as its London Bureau Chief. He covered British politics, the Royal Family and the five-year-long peace process in Northern Ireland for, but also reported from Bosnia and Iraq. Throughout this period he also worked with the BBC and in 1994 won British radio's highest honor, the Sony Award, for his essays on the American Midwest, titled Homeward Bound.
In 1999 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
In 2016, he launched the FRDH podcast. He frames his storytelling through the idea that journalism is the First Rough Draft of History and draws on the history he has reported and lived and written about.
He continues to make documentaries for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, the World Service and Radio 5 and is a regular panelist on the BBC News program Dateline London. He writes op-eds for The New York Times and contributes occasionally to The Guardian.[3Michael's choices include Hillary Mantel, The Mirror and the Lamp
Four Dead in Ohio, covered by Isely Brothers, Ben Harper, Hannah Wicklund --more choices in Part 2 of the Interview
In November 1985, Goldfarb moved to London to pursue a career in journalism. He has reported from 25 countries on five continents.
He reported on the arts for British and American newspapers, particularly The Guardian and Newsday. He became a critic for BBC Radio 4 and this work led him into broadcast journalism with National Public Radio (NPR).
From 1990 to 1998, Goldfarb worked for NPR, from 1996 to 1998 as its London Bureau Chief. He covered British politics, the Royal Family and the five-year-long peace process in Northern Ireland for, but also reported from Bosnia and Iraq. Throughout this period he also worked with the BBC and in 1994 won British radio's highest honor, the Sony Award, for his essays on the American Midwest, titled Homeward Bound.
In 1999 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
In 2016, he launched the FRDH podcast. He frames his storytelling through the idea that journalism is the First Rough Draft of History and draws on the history he has reported and lived and written about.
He continues to make documentaries for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, the World Service and Radio 5 and is a regular panelist on the BBC News program Dateline London. He writes op-eds for The New York Times and contributes occasionally to The Guardian.[3Michael's choices include Hillary Mantel, The Mirror and the Lamp
Four Dead in Ohio, covered by Isely Brothers, Ben Harper, Hannah Wicklund --more choices in Part 2 of the Interview
27 min