Judith Kampfner | Producer & Presenter
© Judith Kampfner 2009
| Dreams From My Mother | A trip to Indonesia exploring the world of Ann Dunham - Barack Obama's Mother. Listen to the programme here. | BBC World Service |
| Obama Professor President | Why America's president turned down an assured academic career in favour of politics. Presented by Prof Kwame Anthony Appiah. Listen to the programme here | |
| Lincoln And the World | How Abraham Lincoln's story has been variously interpreted across the globe. Presented by Alan Little. | BBC World Service |
| Acoustic Attic | The Kitchen Sisters reveal audio gems from personal archives of people, sent in to them from every state in America. | BBC Radio 4 |
| The Donner Party | How a pioneer wagon train leaving from Illinois for a new life in the West, got stranded. Kampfner takes a train from Reno to the area now known as Donner pass and explores the tragic end of this heroic journey. Most of the group perished in huge snowdrifts and there are diary accounts of cannibalism. | BBC World Service |
| The Freedom Train | The story of the Underground Railroad illustrated by music and slave narratives. | BBC World Service |
| The Three Lives of Krishnamurti | How a Brahmin boy from Madras was taken to England by theosophist Annie Besant and how he went onto become a spiritual leader in Los Angeles. | Soundprint Media |
History Programmes
