Julian Borger

“I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent boy, aged 11.” An extraordinary 1938 personal advertisement that started Julian Borger’s quest into his father’s past and the story of Holocaust survival. With Michaela Kalowski.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JULIAN BORGER
Julian Borger is The Guardian‘s World Affairs Editor, based in Washington. He covered the Balkan wars in the 1990s.  He also served as The Guardian‘s Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and its Washington Bureau Chief.

Julian was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. I Seek A Kind Person is his second book. His first, The Butcher’s Trail, was published in 2016.

ABOUT THE HOST

MICHAELA KALOWSKI
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals.

Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Michelle de Kretser, Stan Grant and Etgar Keret.

She’s the curator of ABC RN’s on-air writers festival, Big Weekend of Books. She hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney. Michaela has conducted radio interviews for ABC RN’s The Music Show, Big Ideas and The Bookshelf, ABC Classic and has presented programs across ABC radio.