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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Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?
Fri 11 Sep 2020
The Lithuanian president discusses the geopolitics at play in neighbouring Belarus
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Frank Luntz: Can Donald Trump win?
Wed 9 Sep 2020
We speak to the veteran Republican party pollster and consultant Frank Luntz
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Laura Kövesi: Can the EU's 'corruption buster' deliver?
Mon 7 Sep 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU's first public prosecutor
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UN Secretary General António Guterres: Is multilateralism dead?
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Is the pandemic is unleashing a tsunami of scapegoating, hate and xenophobia?
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Alfre Woodard: The artist and the activist
Wed 2 Sep 2020
A veteran screen actor discusses making art in America's current political climate
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Sam Harris: A place for conversation in an angry world
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Is extremism and intolerance drowning out reasoned debate?
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Natalia Pasternak: Brazil's battle between science and politics
Fri 28 Aug 2020
We hear from the microbiologist who has hit out at Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro
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Natalia Kaliada: Where do Belarus activists go from here?
Wed 26 Aug 2020
An exiled artist gives her thoughts on the protests against Alexander Lukashenko
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Katie Hill: When a politician's nude photos are leaked
Mon 24 Aug 2020
What does a former Congresswoman's case tell us about sexism and modern politics?
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Kishore Mahbubani: Has Covid-19 weakened the West?
Fri 21 Aug 2020
A former Singaporean diplomat says the pandemic has shifted the global balance of power
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Abdalla Hamdok: Exclusive interview with Sudan's Prime Minister
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Has the euphoria that followed last year's revolution given way to harsh realities?
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Wu'er Kaixi: China's crackdown on Uighur dissent
Mon 17 Aug 2020
We speak to Wu'er Kaixi, a Chinese political dissident in exile since Tiananmen
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Nikol Pashinyan: Peace for Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Fri 14 Aug 2020
We speak to the Armenian Prime Minister about their conflict with Azerbaijan.
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Raoul Nehme: Can Lebanon be saved from collapse?
Wed 12 Aug 2020
We speak to Lebanon's economy minister following the resignation of the entire government
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Chris Packham: 'Finding the good in the bad' of Covid-19
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Naturalist Chris Packham says new sustainable economies can emerge after Covid-19
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Vanessa Neumann: Did Venezuela's opposition miss their chance?
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Is support waning for Venezuela's opposition?
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Sir Jeremy Farrar: 'I do believe there will be a vaccine' in 2020 and 2021
Wed 5 Aug 2020
Sir Jeremy Farrar is a scientific advisor to the UK government
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Leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party Mary Lou McDonald
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Sinn Fein won the most votes at Ireland's election last February. Is it still as popular?
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Angus Deaton: The cost of the 'deaths of despair'
Wed 29 Jul 2020
He won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2015. His new work looks at 'deaths of despair'
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Gloria Allred: Epstein victim lawyer
Fri 24 Jul 2020
We speak to veteran women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: 'No-one will be safe until everyone is safe'
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the chair of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
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Adam Goodes: How racism drove him from Australian Rules football
Mon 20 Jul 2020
What lessons can the world learn from an Aboriginal sports star's experience?
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Husam Zomlot: How could Palestine respond to annexation?
Fri 17 Jul 2020
We speak to the Palestinian ambassador in London
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Nathan Law was a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council and a pro-democracy activist
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Jane Goodall: A life with chimpanzees
Mon 13 Jul 2020
Can chimps and so many other species be saved from mass extinction?
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Ronny Tong: Has China killed Hong Kong's special status?
Mon 6 Jul 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to a member of Hong Kong's Executive Council
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Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot & Russian protest
Fri 3 Jul 2020
What, if anything, can stir Russians to rebel?
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Kathy Sullivan: Exploring space and the Mariana Trench
Wed 1 Jul 2020
A former astronaut talks about exploring the deepest point under the ocean
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Armando Iannucci: Is this a bad time to be funny?
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Can the creator of Veep find humour amid the world's crises?
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Maria Ressa: Is the press under attack in the Philippines?
Fri 26 Jun 2020
We speak to Maria Ressa, the journalist just convicted of cyber-libel
