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Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

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Free State is a podcast for the curious that stimulates, provokes, challenges and entertains, while never taking itself too seriously. Free State covers topics from sport to politics, love to loss, the human condition and how to fix the world, with guests from across the planet including Nigerian princes, former Prime Ministers, ex convicts, footballers, boxers and extraordinary people from every walk of life.


Free State is presented by Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. Brolly is a barrister, an original thinker with a fascinating backstory, who donated a kidney to a stranger and then led a crusade to transform organ donation on the island of Ireland, and Fanning is an award-winning interviewer and author.


They are not motivational gurus or life coaches. They will never try to sell you a penis scented candle. They are two people from very different worlds, with one core belief uniting them - this is not a high performance podcast.

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  • The Melania documentary. A lesson in presidential bribery

    The Melania documentary. A lesson in presidential bribery
    Feb 3 2026

    ‘If they showed this film on a plane, people would still walk out.’

    As Melania, the documentary about the US First Lady, opened at the weekend, this line seemed to capture the feelings of critics.

    But, like so many things in Trumpland, even this line of criticism may not be all that it appears.

    On Free State today Dion and Joe look at what the Melania documentary tells us about the court of Donald Trump.

    Amazon has invested $75 million in the documentary, money they will never get back, at least not through the box office.

    But what is really at play here? A movie that is panned by the critics is not the story. A movie that flatters the sun king Trump and enriches his family has other advantages. This is how America works. The question is how will anyone stop it?

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    38 min
  • Peter Oborne - ‘Trump’s Board of Peace is a Board of War'

    Peter Oborne - ‘Trump’s Board of Peace is a Board of War'
    Jan 31 2026

    In the Orwellian world we now live in, gaslighting is now standard. When Donald Trump creates a Board of Peace, we know that where it says one thing, the opposite is the truth.

    On Free State today Peter Oborne joins us to talk about how we reached this point in the Middle East.

    Peter’s new book Complicit looks at Britain’s role in sustaining the genocide in Gaza and why there might be consequences.

    He explains why the U.K. is moving from democracy to oligarchy. He also tells Dion about a book he has just finished on cricket.

    You can order his book here - COMPLICIT: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza | Peter Oborne | OR Books.

    Email us your thoughts on the episode info@freestatepodcast.com

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    45 min
  • Allianz’s National Football League, Trump’s World Cup and the silencing of sporting integrity

    Allianz’s National Football League, Trump’s World Cup and the silencing of sporting integrity
    Jan 29 2026
    When the president of the German football club St Pauli said it was "clearly time to at least discuss a boycott" of the World Cup in the US this summer, he was quickly reminded of his station. "He hasn't been with us long," the president of the German football federation said. The idea of a boycott was completely "misguided" he said.But why? On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at why the World cup could be boycotted and, more importantly, why it won't.When FIFA created a peace prize, did they think about what would happen if they entered the peace business? Did they reflect that people might seriously ask them to consider peace, especially in a country which is going to war on everyone including its own people? They also look at Allianz's ongoing sponsorship of the National Football League and wonder why the protests have been so muted?

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    53 min
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