Far From Home

About 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 back, visited Iran as an American tourist, wandered through abandoned buildings in Chernobyl, and participated in a hallucinogenic healing ceremony in Peru. Learn more and view bonus content at farfromhomepodcast.org (https://farfromhomepodcast.org)

Publisher

Scott Gurian

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Mar 2016

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 102 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   "Our Grief is Not a Cry for War:" The Stories of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

   Host Scott Gurian interviews David Potorti, brother of a 9/11 victim, exploring the "September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows" movement and their call for peace.

2. 

   2 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT

   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 you might enjoy. The show is called Making Peace Visible (https://www.Makingpeacevisible.org), and it features conversations with journalists, peace-builders, activists, and scholars on the front lines of peace and conflict. Making Peace Visible also aims to analyze how the media cover conflict as well as to amplify stories of resolution and reconciliation that are often under-reported or even ignored. Their guest on this particular episode is Terrell Jermaine Starr (https://terrellstarr.com/), an independent journalist based in Ukraine whose reporting has appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, The Washington Post, and MSNBC. His work focuses on how Ukrainian politics and society relate to the rest of the world, especially the United States, Europe, and Africa. In the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion, Terrell gained international attention for his up-close-and-personal reporting style, and for helping vulnerable Ukrainians flee the country. Also for being a rare Black American reporter on the ground. On Terrell's own podcast, “Black Diplomats,” (https://www.youtube.com/@terrelljstarrofficial) and his Substack blog (https://terrellstarr.substack.com/), he provides reporting and analysis on politics in Ukraine, the United States, and beyond, paying special attention to equity and discrimination, and drawing parallels between Putinism and the MAGA movement in the United States. And he also has an ongoing project documenting the lives of Ukrainians of African descent. If you want to keep up with Terrell's reporting, you can follow him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/terrelljstarr/). If you enjoyed this conversation, you should also subscribe to Making Peace Visible and listen to more episodes from their archives wherever you listen to podcasts (https://pod.link/1605799735). On Far From Home, award-winning public radio journalist Scott Gurian reports fascinating stories from faraway places like Iran, Chernobyl, and Mongolia. For more info, visit farfromhomepodcast.org (https://farfromhomepodcast.org/)

3. 

   14 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Human Library

   Host Scott Gurian explores Copenhagen's Human Library, where individuals volunteer as "books" to share their life experiences and challenge societal stigmas in intimate conversations; this is an interview with Ronni Abergel.

Inside a recent episode

"Our Grief is Not a Cry for War:" The Stories of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I really like their approach. They're people who understand this kind of loss. They have a book called Not In My Name, and that really sums up the way I feel. No more killing in my name. And it was difficult because as I started to speak out, I realized that there was a lot of opposition to the things that I was saying. And when I would say that I didn't want another woman anywhere in the world to feel that way, and I certainly wouldn't want to be part of that, people were really confused. So then I felt a need to clarify what I was saying and really be public with it. I felt really an urgency because almost immediately, I think October 9th, we began bombing. […]

Who has been a guest on Far From Home

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• David Potorti
• Ronni Abergel
• Garry Davis

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

995

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

175 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

30 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

67

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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