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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Mufaddal Hamadeh: Is the world indifferent to Syria's sufffering?
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Shaun Ley speaks to the president of the Syrian American Medical Society
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Ian Goldin: Will Covid-19 cause a new recession?
Fri 13 Mar 2020
How severe will the financial effects of the coronavirus be?
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Congressman Anthony Brown: Is Joe Biden really the best the Democrats can do?
Wed 11 Mar 2020
Democrat Congressman Anthony Brown on the best candidate to beat Donald Trump
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William Kentridge: The unnaturalness of apartheid
Mon 9 Mar 2020
Zeinab Badawi is in Johannesburg, talking to renowned artist William Kentridge
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Gabriel Attal: Has the magic worn off France's Emmanuel Macron?
Fri 6 Mar 2020
Mr Attal is the Minister for Youth and a rising star in the President’s En Marche party.
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David Tait: Speaking out about sexual abuse
Wed 4 Mar 2020
Shaun Ley interviews David Tait, successful financier and survivor of sexual abuse
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Mmusi Maimane: Can his new party become a force in South Africa?
Mon 2 Mar 2020
Zeinab Badawi asks Mmusi Maimane about the state of South African politics
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Professor David Heymann: The fight against coronavirus
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Is the World Health Organisation moving fast enough?
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Dr Yasser Abu Jamei: Mental health in Gaza
Wed 26 Feb 2020
What happens to a people living with trauma and collective despair?
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Alan Dershowitz: Are the rich above the law?
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Stephen Sackur cross examines one of America's most high profile lawyers.
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Tarana Burke: What difference has #MeToo made?
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the woman who first coined the phrase "Me Too"
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Halima Aden: Challenging supermodel stereotypes
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Top models are deemed to have a look that attracts and sells. But how diverse is it?
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Agnes Callamard: Investigating the Khashoggi and Soleimani killings
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Stephen Sackur interviews UN Special Rapporteur on extra judicial killing Agnes Callamard
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Paul Krugman: Nobel Prize-winning economist warns of threat to America’s economic future
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Is partisanship infecting every corner of today's realm of ideas?
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Len McCluskey: What's the future of the UK Labour Party?
Wed 12 Feb 2020
The leader of the party's biggest financial backer on what it should do next
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John Kani: Art and activism
Mon 10 Feb 2020
How hard is it to tell South Africa’s post-apartheid story?
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Ian Blackford: Does the SNP have a winning strategy?
Fri 7 Feb 2020
The Scotish nationalists have plenty of passion, but do they have a winning strategy?
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Ai Weiwei: Huawei, Hong Kong and being an artist in exile
Wed 5 Feb 2020
China's most internationally-famous artist reflects on its political and cultural reality
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Lauri Love: The realities of cyber security
Mon 3 Feb 2020
What does an accused hacker's case tell us about the realities of cyber security?
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Jean-Claude Juncker: What's next for the EU and Britain?
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the outgoing EU Commission President
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Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?
Wed 29 Jan 2020
The country's former Ambassador for the Environment analyses the government's approach
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Mindu Hornick: Don't let Auschwitz memories erode
Mon 27 Jan 2020
Mindu Hornick and her sister survived Auschwitz 75 years ago, but their family did not
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Don Bacon: Will Republicans regret their loyalty to Trump?
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to Republican Congressman Don Bacon
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Alexander Blackman: How should crimes on the battlefield be handled?
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman killed a wounded Taliban fighter in 2011
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Tony Garnett: Making TV with a radical purpose
Mon 20 Jan 2020
Another chance to hear our 2016 interview with the pioneering film and TV producer
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Seth Freedman: Spying for Harvey Weinstein
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Who polices the shadowy world of private intelligence?
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Douglas Silliman: What is Donald Trump's strategy in Iraq?
Wed 15 Jan 2020
The former US ambassador to Iraq assesses the White House's possible next moves
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Sir Antony Gormley: Britain's most successful sculptor
Mon 13 Jan 2020
His inspiration is the human body, in fact, his own body.
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Vali Nasr: Have strategic realities in the Middle East changed?
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Who’s gained and who’s lost after the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani?
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Ayad Allawi: What if the US pulls out of Iraq?
Wed 8 Jan 2020
Do rising tensions between the US and Iran spell disaster for Iraq?
