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Barry Farber couldn't have had a better head start into journalism. He was a member of the Norwegian Merchant Marine, an American representative at international conferences in Yugoslavia and Brazil, an interpreter for units of the Chinese Nationalist Navy and the editor of a daily newspaper -- all before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina in 1952.

Okay, Barry admits, it was a college newspaper, "The Daily Tar Heel;" but it was the only daily newspaper in Orange County, North Carolina and the only college daily-except-Monday in the south except Texas! As for being an "interpreter for units of the Chinese Nationalist Navy, a thousand Chinese Nationalist sailors were training with the U. S. Navy in Miami during World War II. When Barry was fourteen he had already been studying Chinese for a year and he became their "mascot" and interpreted for them on sightseeing tours around the area.

Since then, Barry's news coverage has taken him in and out of trouble spots all over the world. He helped Hungarians across the border after their Freedom Fight and sped to Cuba after the fall of Batista, beating Fidel Castro to Havana by five days! Barry reported on the repression of Soviet Jews from the Moscow synagogue beginning in 1956 and covered the Liberty City, Florida race riots from an all-black bar.

He was the first free-lance journalist to enter the Soviet Union after Stalin, where he actually had cocktails with Molotov.

The National Radio Hall of Fame nominated Farber in spring 2010 to its Pioneer: National category. Farber is celebrating his 50^th anniversary as a radio talk show host on September 18, 2010.

Over the years Farber's columns have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, the Washington Post and the Saturday Review. He currently writes a weekly opinion piece for World Net Daily, one of the leading and most successful online news websites.

During the Korean War Farber served in the army as a Russian translator for American military intelligence. After Soviet forces overwhelmed the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, Farber volunteered with Catholic Relief to resettle Hungarian refugees in North Carolina. The American-Hungarian Foundation honored Farber with its prestigious George Washington Award in 2007.

In December 2006, the most popular TV show in Norway re-connected Farber with former Norwegian foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, who as a student had led the "Freedom Navy" and with whom Farber had worked transporting Hungarians across the Einser Canal.

After producing New York's popular 'Tex and Jinx" radio show, Farber landed his own radio show on WINS in New York in 1960, moving to the number one talk station in America, WOR, in 1962. His southern accent made him "easy to zero in on," and by the time Farber left WOR after fifteen years to accept the Conservative Party's nomination for Mayor in 1977, his show occupied more than 25% of the station's entire broadcast week. After losing that election to Ed Koch, Farber joined New York radio station WMCA where he remained for eleven years, whereupon he entered national syndication, where he remains. "The Barry Farber Show" is heard Monday through Friday over CRN Digital Talk Radio and on Saturday afternoons on the Talk Radio Network.

When Barry speaks, the airwaves are filled with a mix of conservative philosophy, eloquent poetry and good, old-fashioned common sense. Thought provoking and intuitive, Barry examines topics of importance from gangs, to white supremacy, to the absurdity of our politicians. It’s easy to bond instantly with the warmth and charm of Barry Farber.

Farber was included by TALKERS MAGAZINE among the top ten radio talk hosts of all time. His peers named him "Talk Host of the Year" in 1991.

For over thirty-five years Barry Farber was a major fund-raising speaker for Bonds of Israel, United Jewish Appeal and other Jewish charities. He's a veteran of twenty-three missions to Israel. "Being Jewish has nothing to do with it," says Farber. "I'm available for the defense of any democracy. Israel just happens to be the neediest."

Farber's books include "How to Learn Any Language" (Kensington) which is the leading book in that field world-wide. Farber founded and remains as president of the New York Language Club, holding regular Monday night practice parties since 1984, and speaks an odd range of languages beyond the standard Spanish, French, German and Italian; including Serbo-Croatian, Twi, Wolluf, Albanian – and some of the most difficult languages in the world including Russian, Indonesian, Hungarian, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Yiddish, and two dialects of Chinese. Farber advises Language Club visitors never to answer the question, "How many languages do you speak?" with a number higher than one! "Say you speak your native language," advises Farber. "Then you may say, "However, I'm a student of – and then you may cite how many languages you're a student of." Farber owns up to being a student of 26!

There's something about Farber's gentle southern manner that side-steps all hostility to his right-of-center views. His broadcast recipe, in his words, "Lots of serious issues; lots of laughs, too; and try every minute to make things not just listenable, but irresistible. Nothing rigid, please! Just bring on articulate guests who disagree and let it flow like a student riot in Ecuador. A common listener's letter says some version of, “Dear Mr. F, I can’t tell you how much I disagree with your politics, or how much I hate to miss even one minute of your riveting manner of getting them across!”

"How can you not love a guy," says one listener, "who can recite 'T'was the Night Before Christmas' in Yiddish and sings 'Davy Crockett' on the air in Norwegian?"

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