It’s our FINAL episode of Sod’s Law, and I’m joined by my partner-in-everything Victoria to top it all off with a review of some of our favourite episodes! This has been the best three years of our lives so far, and to everyone who’s listened, contributed, written in and even given us criticism, we want to send you a HUGE and resounding thank you! …

This week I am talking with David Baddiel… David is an English comedian, presenter, screenwriter, author and self described Jewish atheist, who as well as being the co-writer of the de facto anthem of English football, has written a highly acclaimed book, Jews Don't Count, that largely highlights the double standards extensively employed (either kn…

This week I’m talking with Ben M. Freeman... Ben is a Scottish, gay, Jewish educator and prominent thought-leader on Jewish education, history and identity, and he came on the podcast exactly one year ago to talk about his tremendous book, Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, that I’ve quoted and referenced ever since! Ben’s latest book, Reclaiming o…

This week’s guest is Rafi Hottak… Rafi is a former Afghan interpreter who severely injured whilst working with British forces in Afghanistan. Rafi served as an interpreter for 5 years on the front lines of the volatile Helmand province, and in 2007 was seriously injured in an explosion that killed a senior British officer. He suffered shrapnel woun…

This week I’m talking with Claudia Roden… Claudia is one of the world’s most unique cookbook writers and cultural anthropologists. She grew up in Cairo as an Egyptian Jew, studied in Paris and London, and every step of her career so far has been beyond fascinating! Over the years she has published multiple bestsellers, including the international a…

This week I’m talking with Stuart Goldsmith! Stu is an award-winning standup comic and former street-performer who is best known to many as the host of the Comedian’s Comedian Podcast, where he interviews the top names in global stand up comedy... He’s also an Edinburgh Fringe festival veteran, has performed at Melbourne Comedy Festival, Just for L…

This week I’m talking to Pete Swift… Pete is the co-founder and managing director of Planit-IE, one of the UK's most highly regarded inter-disciplinary design & landscape architecture practices. His life story so far is one of endeavour, adventure and sustainability. His company, Planit-IE, is now a B Corp company… meaning that they are held to a s…

This week I’m talking with Hillary Walsh… Hillary is a former foster-care and juvi kid who grew up on the edges of society in white Midwestern America. After extensive travel in her 20s, she discovered that US immigration law was where she could do the work she cared most about. Now a top US immigration attorney, Hillary is at the bleeding edge of …

This week I’m talking with Julian George… Julian is a serial creator, with a wealth of experience in TV and film, photography and food, working with clients worldwide to deliver solutions in order to communicate their message to a wider audience in memorable and bold style. Julian has founded a number of companies, namely Made by Humans; a creative…

This week I’m chatting with Dr Paul Shuttleworth… Paul has worked in social care for over 20 years, and has a PhD in social work, with his thesis title being “What matters to children in living in kinship care: another way of being a normal family”. He is committed to public service and to the idea that social work and academia have a responsibilit…

This week I’m talking with Major Andrew Fox. Andrew a retired paratrooper in the British Armed Forces who is a strategic, leadership and boardroom advisor drawing on 30+ years' experience leading military and inter-agency teams at home and in international crises from Sarajevo to Raqqah. He is also understood to be the most senior army officer yet …

This week I’m talking to Coco Anetor-Sokei! Coco is a Nigerian woman who has albinism, the congenital condition that causes partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, as well as the possibility of different vision defects. Coco is an online advocate for people with albinism, and we talk about various things: Diversity of rep…

This week I’m talking with Jo Bradshaw! Jo is an adventurer, expedition leader, outdoor instructor and public speaker who used to be the least adventurous person you could imagine, but after some encouragement from a friend started to wander outside her comfort zone. After a few years of trying out some cycling challenges she turned her life upside…

This week I’m talking with Ani Naqvi. Ani is a former BBC journalist and now transformational life coach who, whilst on holiday with a friend in Sri Lanka, was almost drowned in the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami that killed almost 228,000 people across 15 countries. It took 15 years of struggling with PTSD, depression and other crises for An…

This week I’m talking to Ilan Sobel… Ilan is the CEO of Bioharvest Sciences, an Israeli company that marries science and technology with the power of nature to develop proprietary biofarming technology, which invariably will change the landscape of the pharmaceutical and health supplements industries. Prior to joining Bioharvest, Ilan’s story is fa…

This week I’m talking to Drew Charles… Drew is a musician and author from Melbourne, Australia, and he’s recently released a book, called After Party, which tells the story of his life-long struggles with drugs and alcohol, and his eventual path to sobriety. The whole purpose of writing After Party was to draw attention to the damaging effects drug…

This week’s guest is Abi Blake... Abi is a mum of two who was nearly killed by her abusive husband. She was left with permanent spinal cord damage, constant chronic pain, severe PTSD, scars across her neck and much, much more that we get into. And if that wasn’t horrendous enough, her husband, due to a little legal loophole, was free to walk the st…

This week I’m talking with Jordan Syatt… Jordan is a world-renowned strength and nutrition coach, a 5 x World Record holder in powerlifting and personal trainer to entrepreneur/internet mogul Gary Vaynerchuk. For all his success to date, Jordan hasn’t done it the typical way. He flies in the face of health trends and fads, focussing on promoting re…

This week I’m talking to Yonatan Lutz Langer… Yonatan, born Lutz, was for a number of years a member of a Neo-Nazi movement in Berlin. This group would dispute or justify the Holocaust/WWII, idolise the likes of Adolf Hitler and ultimately plot to overthrow the German government. After a ten year period of transformation, he not only left his extre…

This week I’m talking to Joe Sooch… Joe is a podcaster and YouTuber who lives with an extremely rare genetic condition, called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or FOP, in which fibrous connective tissue such as muscle, tendons, and ligaments turn into bone tissue. It’s progressive, meaning it gets worse over time, it’s the only known medical …

This week I’m talking to Eve Barlow… Eve is a Glasgow-born, LA-based music journalist and Jewish activist. She has written pieces for some of the world’s most prestigious publications, both in print and online, and recently has become one of the biggest names in the fight against antisemitism. Eve is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to the writ…

This week I’m talking to Dr Cromwell Purchase of the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP). Cromwell and his team have been working as part of a 22-year breeding programme to regenerate the Spix’s Macaw, a bird that has been extinct in the wild since 2000 due to illegal trade, hunting and the destruction of its natural habit…

This week I’m talking to Sara Baruch… Sara is an Ethiopian Jew who was raised in Israel, after her parents travelled across East Africa & the Middle East over a period of years to arrive there, with a journey hampered by famine, forced displacement, loss of friends and family members. This is not just Sara’s story, but her family’s too. We’re relea…

This week I am talking to two of the founding members of grammy-nominated Memphis blues and soul band Southern Avenue, Tierinii Jackson and Ori Nafalty! We talk their two very different backgrounds, how they came to form one of the hottest bands you’ve not yet heard of and what it’s like taking a months-old baby with them on a world tour! We'd like…

This week I’m talking to Bex Band! Bex is an adventurer, conservationist and founder of the UK’s largest women’s adventure community, Love Her Wild. In 2016, desperate for a drastic change in her life, Bex decided to walk the 1,000km length of Israel with her husband. Having never done anything like it before, the experience changed her life, givin…

This week I’m talking to retired Lt Col. in the Israeli Defence Forces, Eyal Dror. Eyal served in the IDF for 24 years, the majority of which in coordination units working with the Palestinian population. In 2016 he established and commanded the "Good Neighbor" Unit, which managed the humanitarian aid given to civilian victims of the Syrian Civil W…

This week I’m talking to the lovely Nicole Faccio! Nicole was born with a condition called congenital primary lymphedema - the swelling of parts of the body due to a failure in the development and/or function of the lymphatic system. I came across Nicole on Instagram after seeing some of her posts raising awareness for lymphedema and living with ch…

This week I’m talking to British military veteran and adventurer Gina Allsop… Gina has spent most of her life in uniform; from the Army cadets at 13 to serving in the Royal Signals in places like Kosovo, Bosnia and East Timor. After leaving the armed forces, and following a series of traumatic events including the death of her brother to cancer, sh…

This week I’m talking to NHS Jr doctor, co-founder of an award-winning information hub for food, nutrition and lifestyle medicine and recipient of the Princess Diana Award for her campaigning to get diet and nutrition on the medical curriculum, Dr Ally Jaffee. Ally is an ambassador for charity YouOkayDoc, set up by doctors to support doctors’ menta…

This week I’m talking to author, international writing coach and literary agent, Sarah Bullen. Sarah was just 34 with a young family when her husband discovered he had a brain tumour. As he pursued a shamanic path to fight the cancer, they were both catapulted into a world of ritual and ceremony. As he entered his last weeks of life, Sarah ended up…

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I travelled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One place I visited was a hotel in Kraków city centre called Hotel Wilga, owned by a guy called Adam. From the very start of the war, Adam donate…

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Rabbi Eliezer Gurary is the shaliach at the Kraków Chabad House, and like everyone else I’d spoken to had upended his and his family’s life in the…

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I had the chance for a proper sit down chat with Jakub, the director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, which had been converted into a daycare for ref…

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Valentina, a Ukrainian teacher and now refugee living in Kraków. After the start of the war, Valentina helped to convert the Galicia Jewis…

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tzvi Sperber of JRoots took me to one of their refugee centres to see what they had set up over the last few weeks. Tzvi and his team were going f…

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Zhanna, a refugee from Kyiv who had arrived at the JRoots refugee centre in the early hours of the morning. She had traveled from Kyiv to …

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I travelled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tzvi Sperber of JRoots gave me a tour of the one of their refugee centres in Kraków where around 30 or so women & children were being sheltered. …

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Ala, a Scout volunteer from Kraków, who along with many others has spent most of the last four weeks volunteering at Kraków train station …

This is a bonus minisode of the Sod’s Law podcast, recorded in Kraków, Poland, where I traveled to record Ukrainian refugee and aid-worker stories exactly one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Izabela, a Scout leader from Kraków, who along with many others has spent most of the last four weeks volunteering at Kraków train station…

This week I'm talking with Tzvi Sperber, director of JRoots. JRoots lead Jewish heritage tours of Europe, and in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine found themselves switching their Poland operation into a full-blown humanitarian aid organisation supporting the millions of Ukrainian refugees flooding into Poland. About two weeks into the wa…

This week I’m talking to internationally recognised human and civil rights lawyer, author, award-winning filmmaker and self-described warrior to end Jew hatred, Brooke Goldstein… Brooke has been described by many as a woman on a mission, and that’s no joke. As a young law student she traveled to the West Bank to make a documentary about coerced Pal…

This week I’m talking to award winning & internationally-recognised Matchmaking expert & founder of The Matchmaker UK, Lara Besbrode! Lara’s got a fascinating career trajectory from nightclub promotions in 80s London, to the top of the PR world to creating her own business during COVID lockdowns that specialises in helping people find love! She's a…

This week I’m talking to British Armed Forces Veteran and founder of Veterans in Action, the post traumatic growth charity, Billy MacLeod MBE. After leaving the Royal Engineers and running his own successful business for decades, he started Veterans in Action to help armed forces veterans discover a sense of achievement, aiding them to rebuild thei…

This week I’m talking to Jewish-Israeli rights activist, filmmaker & former paratrooper Rudy Rochman. Since a very young age Rudy has been battling the rising tide of Jew Hatred and wherever he may have lived or worked. Not with anger or violence, but by exploring commonalities and finding reasons to bond. He talks about Jews’ indigenous rights to …

This week I’m talking to economics expert and football lover, Dr Ivan K. Cohen. Ivan operates within a world I must admit I know bugger all about: economics. But to be honest, it was right up my street - We talk about his background, career, then got sidetracked by Brexit, Russia and antisemitism in football and overall I think you’ll enjoy it as m…

This week I’m talking to expert Krav Maga and self defence instructor Raz Chen! Raz is an Israeli former Special Operations infantry combatant and senior military Krav Maga instructor based in New York City, and has taught over 10,000 soldiers, including top special forces counter-terrorism and US Marines. He currently teaches classes and seminars …

This week I’m talking to none other than the legend that is Prof. Jonathan AJ Wilson!… This has to have been one of my favourite conversations so far… Jon is a professor of Brand Strategy and Culture at Regent's University in London, he has featured in LinkedIn’s annual Top Voices awards list for four consecutive years, he produced music for the fi…

This week we have a returning guest; Filmmaker, camera expert and genuine man of God, my friend Rizwan Wadan! Riz came on the podcast back in October 2021 to talk about how he and his team at Pixeleyed have been working on a ground-breaking anti-terrorism campaign in order to connect religious communities from all over the UK.- called Uniting Commu…

This week I’m talking to the wonderful Noemie Lopian. Noemie is a former GP-turned world-renowned Holocaust educator, and founder of Holocaustmatters.org, who, as the daughter of two holocaust survivors has dedicated her life to making sure human stories and lessons learned from the Holocaust will never be forgotten. Noemie’s father, Ernst Israel B…

This week I’m talking to the lovely Lerona-Jayne Goldberg! When Lerona was 5 years old she sustained life-changing, permanent spinal injuries, leaving her paralysed from the waist down. In September 2022, in honour of her 40th birthday, Lerona will be attempting the challenge of hand-cycling from London to Amsterdam, over two days and 136 miles, to…