Podcasts — Get The Trolls Out

What can a podcast achieve?

We start by training journalists and citizens to tell their story.

Together with not-for-profit organisations that work with the media like the Center for Independent Journalism and Community Media Forum Europe, we offer a platform where all communities can be heard.

We understand that by telling more diverse stories we can combat hate and division in society.

Who we work with

Center for Independent Journalism (Hungary)

The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) along with various community radio stations and Subjective Values Foundation (SVF), who recruit candidates for podcasts, began creating podcasts from January 2020.

Podcasts have been produced and aired by:

Civil Radio, the largest community radio station
Nyugat.hu, an independent news site
Eper Radio, a university radio station
Free Pècs, an independent regional news portal
Hvg.hu, an independent news portal
Mazsike, the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association
artportal magazine, an online magazine

Community Media Forum Europe

The Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) started working with us to help local community media produce content around incidents of anti-religious hatred and hate speech. Podcasts started being created from April 2021.

Other podcasts

JULY 2020 Produced and presented by Lydia El-Khouri, the show is a personal history of the St Albans Jewish Community, in England. Interviews include a local Rabbi, young children, representatives from the United Synagogue and the Masorti Synagogue (SAMS), and Rosanna Rafel-Rix from the Antisemitism Policy Trust.

Listen to it on Radio Verulam here.

May 2021 The Never Again Association (NAA) produced a podcast to report on a court case around online distribution of antisemetic products. Get The Trolls Out! campaign was also mentioned in the podcast.

Listen to it on YouTube here.

Podcasts in collaboration with Center for Independent Journalism (Hungary)

These podcasts aim to hold power to account and protect the interests of journalists, citizens and communities.

Vera Jonas - the imperfect diva by Mazsike

Features an interview with singer and songwriter Vera Jónás. The conversation focused on her personal search to find her Jewish heritage coming from her father's side.
Swabians and Jews - historian György Ritter by Mazsike

An interview with historian, archivist, and film critic György Ritter. Focusing on Volksbund, the massacre in Pusztavam and György’s grandfather being forced into the SS.
In front of us is the North, we are the South? by Artportal magazine

Starting from a Biennale exhibition, the podcast explores the issue of national memory in socialist Hungary and it’s relationships with countries in the Global South that have consequences on today’s approach to migration and Muslims living in the country.
In constant change, we live inseparably together by Artportal magazine

Starting from a Biennale exhibition, this podcast explores the minority vs majority, an imagined Hungarian state, multilingualism and multiculturalism, as well as freedom.
In papal waters: interview with Christian vlogger Andrásfalvy by Eper radio

Guest Klára Andrásfalvy talks about Christian youtubeing, premarital sex and the danger of love disappointment in connection with her video Virgin to Honeymoon.
Confess freely by Eper radio

An interview György Móri, the lead of the Zalaszantó Buddhist Community about Buddhism and freedom of religion.
Sociologist Ildikó Barna by Mazsike

An interview with the associate professor of sociology, Department of Social Science, ELTE, and author of online antisemitism connected to the coronavirus pandemic in Hungary.
Writer Zoltán Gábor by Mazsike

An interview with the writer and journalist about his two books and his investigative journalism into the fascist regime in Hungary during the second world war.
Midwife and gynecologist Ágnes Geréb by Mazsike

An interview with Ágnes Geréb, a midwife, gynecologist, independent midwife, and the Hungarian pioneer of home birth. Born in the 1950s, Ágnes belongs to a generation that could not openly live their Jewry. The conversation focused on the current Jewry in Hungary, what can be done, and what impact this will have on the next generations.
Flora Polnauer, the cantor by Mazsike

An interview with the singer and synagogue cantor who worked and studied in Israel, Berlin, New York and Paris about the power of music and the misinterpretations of spiritual purity.
Education based on Christian culture by Hvg.hu

An interview with Szabolcs Hegyi, lawyer of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union about the new ninth amendment of the Constitution. According to Szabolcs, the amendment not only restricts freedom of religion for non-Christians but also for Christian’s themselves. The podcast had more than 10,000 listeners.
Did you know that Michelangelo didn't even paint the Sistine Chapel while lying down? by Nyugat

An interview with György Tarr, a restorer who renewed the paintings of the great halls of the Episcopal Palace in Szombathely.
What does a guitar have to do in a church? by Nyugat

An interview with musician Zsolt Rettegi about church music and its true depths.
About the accumulating goddess Isis, the macho god Mithras, and the Christian martyr strangled in Perint by Nyugat

An interview with archaeologist Otto Sosztarits about the faith and customs of the Romans.
QAnon: Conspiracy theories for power by Hvg.hu

The podcast focuses on how far the impact and power of such a movement could extend, with interviews to Péter Krekó, the managing director of Political Capital, and Bernát Török, an associate professor at the National University of Public Administration. This podcast was listened by over 5,200 people and the article related to the podcast was read by 10,000 people.
On faith, social work and politics with Gábor Iványi by Civil Rádió

An interview with Pastor Gabor Iványi, the Head of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship.
Episode 1: Freely Practicing Religion? Interview with Gergely Rosta, sociologies of religion by Eper radio

A four part a miniseries on religious freedom. The series by Eper Radio explores atheism and religion today. In the first episode sociologist of religion Gergely Rosta talks about religion from a scientific point of view.
Episode 2: Freely Practicing Religion? Religion in the online space by Eper radio

In the second episode, Gergely Nagy (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary) talks about the blog of Kálvinista Apologetika, a Protestant organization whose goal is to support and strengthen Protestants in their identity, and what new challenges the pandemic has brought to pastoral activities. Milán Lukovits, senior pastor and teacher, also discusses how masses are held online.
Episode 3: Freely Practicing Religion? What does religious freedom mean to us? by Eper radio

In the third episode, the Eper Radio podcasting team have a discussion on religion beyond Judeo-Christian traditions focusing on topics such as secular humanism.
Episode 4: Freely Practicing Religion? Conversation about atheism by Eper radio

In the fourth episode, young adults discuss atheism.
From Békésszentandrás to the refugee camp by Civil Rádió

Discussion about the two decades the Calvinist priest spent in a refugee camp.
Religion can't be turned into a political program: interview with Lutheran Bishop Tamás Fabiny by Civil Rádió

In this podcast, Bishop Fabiny discusses how religion depends on politics, interfaith dialogue, Muslim refugees and artistic freedom.
Face to face: When we look in a mirror and find ourselves among the deported Jews of Szombathely by Nyugat

An interview with Krisztina Kelbert about why face-to-face exhibition material is in the warehouse of an Israeli city and how women’s thinking helps in difficult situations.
Religious freedom and pork: being a Muslim in Hungary by Nyugat

An interview with Szabolcs Zoltán Sulok, the president of the Muslim Church in Hungary, also touching on taboos.
Márk Horváth, an organist from Máriazelli from Gencsapáti by Nyugat

An interview with Mark Horváth , a 24-year-old who already has a 25-part television series behind him. He explains his relationship with religion and how it brings him security.
Christianity and identity politics part I by Civil Rádió

The first of a two part podcast series that discusses Christianity and identity.
Christianity and identity politics part 2 by Civil Rádió

The final part of a two part podcast series that discusses Christianity and identity.
Buddhism in Borsod by Civil Rádió

A podcast discussing a popular religion and what is behind it.
Mérő Mátyás tells us about Krishna and their Hungarian community by Civil Rádió

Mérő Mátyás tells us about Krishna and their Hungarian community.
The mayor of Pécs, who let the citizens down - What will be the heritage of Esztergár? by Free Pécs

A podcast which focuses on the banality of evil, the ghetto of Pécs and the politics of remembrance.
Is Islamophobia the new anti-Semitism?

This podcast discusses the similarities between Islamophobia and antisemitism.
Anti-Semitism today

An interview with Kálmán Szalai, Secretary of the Action and Protection Foundation, about Hungarian antisemitism, and how the Hungarian situation differs from that of other European countries.