The Interview Podcast
Conversations with people shaping our world. Listen to The Interview for the best conversations from the BBC, the world's most trusted international news provider.
Conversations with people shaping our world, from all around the globe. Listen to The Interview for the best conversations from the BBC, the world's most trusted international news provider.
We hear from titans of business, politics, finance, sport and culture. Global leaders, decision-makers and cultural icons. Politicians, activists and CEOs.
Each interview is around 20-minutes, packed full of insight and analysis, covering some of the biggest issues of our time.
How does it work? Well, at the BBC, our journalists interview amazing people every single day. And on The Interview, we bring them to you.
It’s your one-stop-shop to the best conversations coming out of the BBC, with the people shaping our world, from all over the world.
Get in touch with us on emailTheInterview@bbc.co.uk and use the hashtag #TheInterviewBBC on social media.
Episodes to download
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Simcha Rothman: Is Israel plunging into chaos?
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a key architect of the government's controversial legal reforms
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Notis Mitarachi: Has Greece's government lost the confidence of the people?
Wed 8 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Greece's asylum and migration minister
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Félix Maradiaga: Standing up to Nicaragua's president
Fri 3 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the recently deported former Nicaraguan opposition leader
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Tikhon Dzyadko: Is there an audience for independent news in Russia?
Wed 1 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Rain TV editor, Tikhon Dzyadko
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Ece Temelkuran: Is Erdogan's control of Turkey under threat?
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent exiled Turkish writer and critic of the president
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Olesya Khromeychuk: Conflict and identity
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the British-Ukrainian historian and author
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Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Canadian doctor and assisted dying advocate
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Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Somali-born model and activist, Waris Dirie.
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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Britain’s biggest rail union the RMT
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Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who led Human Rights Watch for three decades
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Kira Rudik: Can Ukraine win this war?
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Ukrainian MP who leads the opposition party Golos
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Pervez Musharraf: Power in Pakistan
Wed 8 Feb 2023
A 2014 interview with the former president of Pakistan, who has died aged 79
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Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?
Mon 6 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary’s Prime Minister
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Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?
Wed 1 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain
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Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran
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Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela’s opposition.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s foreign minister
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Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave
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Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula’s foreign policy advisor
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
Wed 18 Jan 2023
An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist
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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
Fri 13 Jan 2023
A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist
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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
Wed 11 Jan 2023
A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine
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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child
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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan’s opposition PTI party
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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
Wed 4 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist
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Hardtalk in 2022
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk’s most compelling interviews of the year
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Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party
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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party