Mother Country Radicals
Episodes
Introducing Family Lore
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Family Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating ...
Bonus: Radical Family Histories (A Crossover with I Was Never There)
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the ...
Chapter 10: Inheritance
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zayd connects to other children of the underground. Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better...
Chapter 9: Revolutionary Suicide
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carry out one last action together, with deadly consequences that reverberate...
Chapter 8: Hard Times
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan ...
Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government. For more of the story, check out: T...
Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation...
Chapter 5: New Morning
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Weathermen go underground, and become famous - and infamous - as counter-culture outlaws. For more of the story, check out: Thai Jones, A Radic...
Chapter 4: Bring the War Home
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Weathermen decide to bring the horrors of the Vietnam War back to America’s doorstep, planning an action that will change the future of the orga...
Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jamal Joseph is radicalized at 15, and joins the New York Black Panthers. And a deadly attack by Chicago Police puts both Panthers and Weathermen on a...
Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1970, a former law student named Bernardine Dohrn declared war on the United States government. Decades later, her son Zayd Ayers Dohrn tells the s...
Chapter 2: Days of Rage
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zayd’s father Bill Ayers joins the Weathermen, and he and his friends teach themselves to be revolutionaries, gearing up to build bombs and brawl wi...
Introducing Mother Country Radicals
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were founders of the Weather Underground organization, and on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us ba...