EP 21 The Great Famine in Ireland with Padraic X. Scanlon
adraic X. Scanlan joins Frank Armstrong to discuss his book Rot: A History of the Irish Famine, which explores the modernity of Ireland's experience with potato cultivation, culminating in the arrival...
12 Mai 1h 10min
EP 20 Murder Most Foul: Amanda Knox on the Lucy Letby Case
American journalist Amanda Knox joins Frank Armstrong to discuss the case of English nurse Lucy Letby. Knox was herself falsely charged with murdering her roommate Meredith Kerchner in Italy in 2007 a...
21 Mar 1h 2min
EP19 Ward Bosses and Alligator Bishops: Irish Americans and Tammany Hall with Terry Golway
For this Saint Patrick's Day episode, Luke Sheehan asked Irish-American historian and New York history expert Terry Golway to help create an overview of the Irish American experience, with a focus on ...
17 Mar 1h 7min
EP 18 Podcast: Why I joined the revolution in Rojava
For this episode we have asked our friend and contributor, Greek journalist and filmmaker, Alexis Daloumis, to sit in for an interview with Luke Sheehan about his newly released Documentary Belki Sibe...
13 Feb 1h 11min
EP17 Fatma Akman Lehmann - Turkey's Phrase of the Year: Gözaltina aliniyorum
Fatma Akman Lehmann was born and raised in Ankara. From a young age, she was drawn to writing—a passion that later shaped her path toward journalism, politics, and civic activism. Now resident in Germ...
2 Jan 1h 4min
EP 16 "He Bought Plato" a conversation with John Dillon
John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, is an Irish classicist and philosopher considered a world authority in ancient philosophy and Platonism. Born in Madison, W...
16 Sep 20252h 11min
EP 15 The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin
Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin's North Inner City. Born in the 1950s and raised in the historic heart of what was once Europe's largest red-light district,...
7 Aug 202553min
EP 14 Patrick Cockburn: on Syria and Ukraine
"The Christians are frightened, the Alawites are frightened" It has been one year since Cassandra Voices forayed into podcasting. The guest for our podcast's first-ever episode — the extraordinary jou...
26 Mar 202556min
