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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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy PM for European integration
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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Moldova's foreign minister and deputy prime minister
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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the European Space Agency
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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's ambassador to the UN
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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled female politician
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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?
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Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
Wed 1 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an internationally renowned Harvard historian
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Danica Roem: America's culture wars
Mon 30 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to America’s first transgender state lawmaker
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
Fri 27 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of Uruguay
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Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
Wed 25 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the secretary general of Nato
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Iván Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
Mon 23 May 2022
Does the Duque Presidency signal the conclusive failure of Colombia’s ruling elite?
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Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
Fri 20 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of America's biggest Christian preachers
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Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
Wed 18 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the wife of the Wikileaks founder
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Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
Mon 16 May 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the CEO of Save the Children International
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Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
Fri 13 May 2022
Victoria Spartz, Republican Congresswoman is an ardent advocate of US support for Kyiv
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Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
Wed 11 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee
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Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
Mon 9 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Jim Green, former chief scientist at Nasa
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Zoltán Kovács: Whose side is Hungary really on?
Fri 6 May 2022
Zoltán Kovács, Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication on Russia
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Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
Wed 4 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the financier and anti-Putin campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act
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Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Mon 2 May 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the General Secretary of the UK’s Trades Union Congress
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Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline
Wed 27 Apr 2022
A Ukrainian musician who has exchanged stadium gigs for a military uniform
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled Russian businessman
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail
Wed 20 Apr 2022
The story of an Australian academic who was released from an Iranian jail in 2020
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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur talks to one of the UK's most popular comedians
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Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to one of Kenya’s most ground-breaking cultural figures
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Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled Russian economist
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Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin’s strategy be a template for China to follow?
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Taipei’s representative to the EU
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Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'
Fri 8 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to sanctioned F1 Driver Nikita Mazepin.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?
Wed 6 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's Foreign Minister as evidence of atrocities emerges
