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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Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Why is an Australian mining billionaire trying to push a green agenda?
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Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Why a neurosurgeon is lobbying for the legislation of assisted dying
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Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Is international justice an ideal which the world has signally failed to live up to?
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Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States
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Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security
Wed 13 Oct 2021
As a spike in fossil fuel prices looks to benefit Russia, how will it flex its influence?
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Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?
Fri 8 Oct 2021
Is a nudge better than a shove when change is needed?
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Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Wed 6 Oct 2021
Have the Nuremberg trials made genocide and crimes against humanity less likely today?
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Michel Barnier on Brexit fallout
Fri 1 Oct 2021
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
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Rafael Grossi - Nuclear fallout
Wed 29 Sep 2021
We speak to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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Nitin Sawhney, Musician and Composer
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur interviews British Indian musician and composer Nitin Sawhney.
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Roger Deakins: How is technology changing cinema?
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the world's most celebrated cinematographers
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Bryan Hughes: Abortion in Texas
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Republicans in Texas have managed to ban abortion in almost all cases in their state
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Carlos Fernando Chamorro: Exiled from Nicaragua
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Why has Nicaragua slumped back into authoritarianism?
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Naomi Campbell, supermodel and businesswoman
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Supermodel Naomi Campbell speaks to Zeinab Badawi in an exclusive interview
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison: An explorer protecting indigenous lands
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur interviews an explorer protecting indigenous people and their lands
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Rudy Giuliani: Reflecting on 9/11
Fri 10 Sep 2021
First broadcast in September 2011. How did the 9/11 attacks change America?
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Nadia Calviño: Is Europe too fragmented to shape the 21st Century?
Wed 8 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to Spain's Deputy PM and Economy minister Nadia Calviño
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Lindsey Graham: What is the Republican vision for America?
Mon 6 Sep 2021
How does America see itself and its place in the world?
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Omar Zakhilwal: What ideology will prevail in Afghanistan?
Wed 1 Sep 2021
Hardtalk speaks to a former minister who has been involved in talks with the Taliban
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Maggi Hambling: An evolving creative vision
Mon 30 Aug 2021
An acclaimed and sometimes controversial artist talks to Stephen Sackur
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Andrei Kelin: Russia, Afghanistan and the UK
Fri 27 Aug 2021
What does the situation in Afghanistan say about the wider geopolitical balance of power?
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Paula Kahumbu: Saving Africa's wild spaces
Wed 25 Aug 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Kenyan conservationist Paula Kahumbu
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Gedion Timothewos: Ethiopia's civil war
Mon 23 Aug 2021
The conflict between government forces and Tigrayan rebels has cost thousands of lives
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Kamila Sidiqi: What future do Afghanistan's women face?
Fri 20 Aug 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to a government adviser who escaped Kabul as the Taliban took over
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Aly Raisman: Are gold medals put above athletes' wellbeing?
Mon 16 Aug 2021
An Olympic gymnastics champion who spoke out about abuse talks to Stephen Sackur
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Getachew Reda: What is the endgame for Tigray's rebels?
Fri 13 Aug 2021
As conflict continues in northern Ethiopia, what is the endgame for Tigray’s rebels?
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Daryl Davis: Reaching out to the KKK
Wed 11 Aug 2021
A musician who has spent four decades trying to talk to America’s most diehard racists
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Hamid Mir: Is Pakistan a safe place for journalists?
Mon 9 Aug 2021
Hamid Mir was taken off air after he spoke out against Pakistan's powerful military
