Understanding Afghanistan with Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald

Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, a husband and wife team, began working together in 1979, co-producing a documentary, The Arms Race and the Economy: A Delicate Balance, for Paul's television show, "Watchworks." Soon they found themselves in the midst of a swirling controversy that was to boil over a few months later with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As the first American journalists to delve deeply inside the story, they not only got a view of an unseen Afghan life, but a revelatory look at how the U.S. defined itself against the rest of the world under the veil of superpower confrontation.

Together they are the authors of:

• The Voice (Xlibres Books 2000)
• Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story (City Lights Books 2009)

To learn more about the work of Gould and Fitzgerald go to invisiblestory.com or grailwerk.com.

Host: Michael Toms      Interview Date: 5/18/2009      Program Number: C0110

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