Far From Home
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Far From Home
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 bac...
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101 episode
On the Ground in Ukraine with Terrell Jermaine Starr (with Making Peace Visible)
While 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...
Human Library
In the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen, there's a small building with a garden and wooden seats. It's the Menneskebiblioteket or Human Library, wh...
Balloon Hats (repeat)
When 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...
Citizen of the World
When 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,...
Foreign Aid
Over 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-fu...
Hitting the Ice
Montreal is a city often split between English and French languages and cultures, but one thing that almost all residents can get behind is cheering o...
Man Without a Country
The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is now entering its third year, and it’s been a humanitarian disaster. According to UNHCR, the United...
Christmas in Puerto Rico Revisited
As 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...
World Reacts to Trump
As 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...
Winging It
I'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 ab...
Canadian Cuisine
If 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...
Christiania bonus episode
In the course of reporting my documentary about Freetown Christiania -- Copenhagen's famous anarchist commune -- for the 99% Invisible podcast, I took...
Freetown Christiania
In 1971, a group of squatters took over an abandoned military base just across the harbor from downtown Copenhagen, Denmark. They created a politicall...
Season 4 Trailer
In this era of wars, conflicts, and polarized politics, talking to strangers has never been more important. A new season of episodes launches Tuesday,...
Eclipse Chaser
After 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 lis...
Every Country Without Flying
Thor 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 ventur...
Prison Rodeo
After 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 archive...
Stories From Flyover Country
Two 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 gett...
18 Years in Rome (with The Bittersweet Life)
If 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 wa...
Stranger in a Strange Land
From the age of 24 until she was 37, Jamie Yuenger lived in New York City. While she started out having a complicated relationship with the city, she...
Off the Beaten Jack
Last winter during the pandemic, Jack Boswell started to reevaluate his place in life and realize that at the age of 31, he still hadn’t chased his re...
Turkmenistan Revisited
As you may have seen in my feed, I recently teamed up with my colleagues at NPR’s Planet Money economic podcast to report a story that prominently fea...
The Salvage Car Silk Road
A few months ago, a friend of mine named Oraz who runs an autobody repair shop in Turkmenistan came across a kind of puzzle. A new vehicle had just ar...
Ayahuasca Reexamined
I’m always open to listener feedback on Far From Home, and I heard from someone recently who’s given me a new perspective on one of my past stories an...
What Shelter Means to Me
While I’ve been hunkered down these past few years, avoiding traveling and staying home while I rode out the pandemic, I’ve been incredibly lucky that...
Refugee Stories
Over the past 2 months, more than 5 million people have left Ukraine, and another 6-and-a-half-million have fled their homes and are now displaced els...
Ukraine
On this episode, I speak to Savelli and Olexander, two Ukrainians who’ve suddenly had their lives upended after the Russian military invaded their cou...
Revisiting Central Asia
Central Asia is not a place that most Westerners know or think about very often. But now that I’ve been there, my ears perk up on the rare instances w...
Cell Phone Santa
Take Santa Claus. Then ditch the red suit and the flying reindeer, and you’ve got a guy who’s all about giving. On this last episode of my third seaso...
COVID Stories Part 4
Nearly 2 years into the Covid-19 pandemic, new waves of infection continue to spread around the world, and the Omicron variant is causing renewed fear...
Playing Tour Guide (with The Radio Vagabond)
Having grown up just outside of New York City, I visited most of the big tourist attractions like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, an...
How did I end up here?
When you travel, it’s inevitable that you’ll occasionally have weird or random experiences, where you might have certain expectations before you arriv...
The Stories of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, President Bush vowed revenge against the perpetrators, but not everyone found his...
Stockholm Norms (with Here There Be Dragons)
Knowing the rules and being able to navigate them can be a big part of feeling safe in any city. On this episode of Far From Home, I share an episode...
Revisiting the Mongol Rally
July 17th, 2021 marked the fifth anniversary of the day my brother Drew and I — along with our friends Jane and Rosi — set out from southern England o...
Out of Your Comfort Zone
When you travel – especially if you’re in a distant and unfamiliar place – it’s inevitable that sooner or later, things will happen that are beyond yo...
Tuning in the World
COVID-19 has closed borders and made travel difficult if not impossible for many of us over the past year-and-a-half. But radio signals don't need pas...
COVID Stories Part 3
On this episode of Far From Home, I continue my series where I’m checking in with friends and colleagues around the world to get a sense of the many w...
Revisiting Chernobyl
April 26, 2021 marks the 35th anniversary of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former USSR — which remains the worst nucle...
Oklahoma City
Each year on April 19th, residents of Oklahoma City commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 bombing in their city, which prior to September 11th bore...