The F Word Podcast

The F Word Podcast


Latest Episodes

Azim Khamisa on grieving, his spiritual practice and the importance of asking for forgiveness
January 19, 2021

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Azim Khamisa who founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation after his only son, Tariq, was shot and killed while delivering pizzas in San Diego in 1995. Tariq’s killer, Tony Hicks, was 14-years-old at the time and has only...

Letlapa Mphahlele on prejudice, apartheid and the burden of being forgiven
January 05, 2021

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Letlapa Mphahlele about his role in the struggle against apartheid and how he came to meet the mother of one of his victims. Ginn Fourie's daughter was killed in 1993 at a massacre in a Cape Town bar. Nine years later she...

Kia Scherr on traumatic loss and grief as a spiritual practice
December 22, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Kia Scherr whose husband and 13-year-old daughter were both victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Kia is the co-founder of One Life Alliance, a charity she set up as a response to the attacks.

Paul Kohler on how a brutal attack in his own home changed the course of his life
December 08, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Paul Kohler whose story hit the headlines in 2014 when four men broke into his London home leaving him with severe facial injuries. His wife and daughter were also in the house at the time of the attack and later all three...

Lis Cashin on guilt, shame and self-forgiveness
November 24, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Lis Cashin who as a child caused a fatal accident which cast an irreversible shadow over her life. Marina talks to her about trauma, self-forgiveness and finding meaning in pain.

Zak Ebrahim on the meaning of forgiveness in relation to extremist ideologies
November 10, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Zak Ebrahim. When Zak was seven, his father shot and killed the founder of the Jewish Defence League, Rabbi Meir Kahane and later was convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Zak’s story is...

Jacob Dunne on meeting the mother of the man he killed
October 27, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Jacob Dunne who aged 18 was convicted of manslaughter for killing a man with a single punch. This episode tells the story of Jacob’s gradual rehabilitation and the vital role played by the parents of the man he killed –...

Joan Scourfield on facing the man who killed her son
October 13, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Joan Scourfield, the mother of James who in 2011 was killed when a young man called, Jacob Dunne, threw a fatal punch in an unprovoked attack in Nottingham, England. A few years later Joan and her then husband David came...

Stephanie Cassatly on rage and the gift of remorse
September 29, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Stephanie Cassatly, a writer, teacher, mother and wife from Florida. When Stephanie was 18, her mother was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans, changing every preconceived notion she had about...

Bjørn Ihler on the power of personal storytelling, violent extremism and why it’s important not to dehumanize terrorists
September 29, 2020

Marina Cantacuzino talks to 29-year-old Bjørn Ihler, a writer, filmmaker and ‘peace activist’ from Norway. Bjørn is a survivor of the attack on Utøya Island in July 2011 when far-right extremist Anders Breivik killed 69 people and injured many...