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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Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade - Charles Flanagan
Mon 15 May 2017
Will Brexit have catastrophic consequences across the Irish Sea?
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Emmaunel Macron advisor Sylvie Goulard MEP
Fri 12 May 2017
Shaun Ley speaks to French MEP Sylvie Goulard who has advised President-elect Macron.
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Former US North Korea negotiator Christopher Hill
Wed 10 May 2017
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to the American diplomat Christopher Hill.
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Police Minister of South Africa - Fikile Mbalula
Fri 5 May 2017
As the scandals pile up, are we witnessing the slow death of the ANC?
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UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Yemen - Jamie McGoldrick
Wed 3 May 2017
Is the UN losing the struggle to save millions of lives?
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
Fri 28 Apr 2017
Is Turkey sliding towards one-party dictatorship?
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Son of Hans Frank, Governor General of Nazi Occupied Poland - Niklas Frank
Wed 26 Apr 2017
Niklas Frank on his father's crimes and the legacy of the Nazi era
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Bishop Angaelos - Coptic Orthodox Church UK
Mon 24 Apr 2017
Do Christians have a future in the Middle East?
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Russia's Ambassador to the EU - Vladimir Chizhov
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Will Russia promise not to pervert democracy in Europe?
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Philosopher and Writer - Pascal Bruckner
Wed 19 Apr 2017
Is France living through an age of decline?
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Executive Secretary of UN ESCWA 2010-2017 - Rima Khalaf
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Why did a UN agency publish a report that categorised Israel as an apartheid state?
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Psychologist Jan Kizilhan
Fri 14 Apr 2017
Jan Kizilhan has helped bring over a thousand Yazidi females from Iraq to Germany.
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Italy's Europe Minister - Sandro Gozi
Fri 7 Apr 2017
How does the EU need to change if it is to win over the next generation of Italians?
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Sir Ian McKellen - Actor
Wed 5 Apr 2017
'My campaigning is about allowing people to be themselves' - McKellen on gay rights
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Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault
Mon 3 Apr 2017
Why is a former head of state-sanctioned executions now an opponent of the death penalty?
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Former interrogator for the CIA, James Mitchell
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Did the CIA’s enhanced interrogation programme amount to torture?
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South African Anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada
Wed 29 Mar 2017
After 26 years in jail the veteran anti-apartheid activist had no time for bitterness
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Ben Ferencz, Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Mon 27 Mar 2017
What does the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials think they achieved?
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Deputy Leader of the Turkey's Republican People's Party - Selin Sayek Böke
Fri 24 Mar 2017
Does Turkey's main opposition party have a credible alternative vision for the country?
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Joshua Wong, Secretary General of Demosisto political party, Hong Kong
Wed 22 Mar 2017
HARDtalk speaks to Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong
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Zimbabwe's Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi
Mon 20 Mar 2017
Should 93 year old Robert Mugabe be standing for another Presidential term?
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Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice-Chairman of Open Russia
Fri 17 Mar 2017
HARDtalk speaks to Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice chairman of the Open Russia group.
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Former US Senator for Florida Bob Graham
Wed 15 Mar 2017
Will the liberal politics espoused by the former senator ever be back in fashion?
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Vice President of Zimbabwe (2004 – 2014) - Joice Mujuru
Mon 13 Mar 2017
How tainted is Joice Mujuru by her long association with the ZANU-PF party?
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Moise Katumbi, opposition politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Moise Katumbi says he'll run for president at the next election in DR Congo.
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Adviser to the President of the Palestinian Authority - Husam Zomlot
Wed 8 Mar 2017
What does the Trump era mean for the Palestinian dream of statehood?
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Ukraine's Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Mon 6 Mar 2017
Ukraine's prime minister from 2014 to 2016, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, speaks to HARDtalk
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Prime Minister of Singapore - Lee Hsien Loong
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Is the much vaunted Singapore model under threat?
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HARDtalk: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Stephen Sackur speaks to Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
