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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Kiran Bedi - Senior Female Police Officer in India
Fri 18 Jan 2013
Is India failing to protect women from sexual violence?
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Joaquin Almunia – EU Competition Commissioner
Wed 16 Jan 2013
Is the worst of the Eurozone crisis really over?
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Lord Heseltine – Former British Deputy Prime Minister
Fri 11 Jan 2013
Can Lord Heseltine's growth stratey juice things up for Britain's coalition government?
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Fatih Birol – Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Wed 9 Jan 2013
Is the resilience of fossil fuel supply a cause for celebration, or despair?
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Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist
Mon 7 Jan 2013
Is genuine liberation for women possible in the Arab world?
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Ian Thorpe - Australian Swimmer
Fri 4 Jan 2013
Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression.
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Alan Moore - Graphic Novelist
Wed 2 Jan 2013
Alan Moore - graphic novelist and insurgent explains why is he now becoming disillusioned.
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Philip Glass - Composer
Mon 31 Dec 2012
Philip Glass has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
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Brooke Magnanti - Belle du Jour
Fri 28 Dec 2012
Belle de Jour aka Dr Brooke Magnanti is calling for prostitution to be decriminalised.
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Lewis Moody - Former England Rugby Captain
Boxing Day 2012
Ex-England rugby captain Lewis Moody talks about his battle with bowel disease
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Sir Geoffrey Nice QC - Barrister
Christmas Eve 2012
Stephen Sackur talks to Sir Geoffrey Nice who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milosević
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Naguib Sawiris – Businessman and Founder, Free Egyptians Party
Fri 21 Dec 2012
Coptic Christian, billionaire, businessman and politician on Egypt's polarisation
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Sima Samar – Chairperson, Afghan Human Rights Commission
Mon 17 Dec 2012
Does Sima Samar have the right strategy to win greater freedoms for Afghan women?
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Leila Shahid – Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the EU
Fri 14 Dec 2012
Is the game up for Palestine's old guard moderates?
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Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government
Wed 12 Dec 2012
Falkland Islanders if they want to remain a British overseas territory. Should they agree?
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José Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission
Mon 10 Dec 2012
Is Europe's economic crisis a threat to the continent's peace?
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Carlos Ghosn - CEO of Renault-Nissan
Fri 7 Dec 2012
Can Carlos Ghosn turn around the fortunes of Renault as he has done for Nissan?
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Mike Newell - film director
Wed 5 Dec 2012
Why did Mike Newell choose to make a film of the classic Dickens novel Great Expectations?
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Peter Voser - CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
Mon 3 Dec 2012
With economies so thirsty for energy - but at what cost?
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Jeh Johnson- General Counsel, US Department of Defense
Fri 30 Nov 2012
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the US Defense Department.
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Michael Woodford - Former CEO, Olympus
Wed 28 Nov 2012
Zeinab Badawi speaks to British businessman Michael Woodford, former CEO of Olympus.
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Frans Baleni - General Secretary, South African National Union of Mineworkers
Mon 26 Nov 2012
Shaun Ley asks about the consequences of the 'Marikana massacre' in South Africa.
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Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International
Fri 23 Nov 2012
Doesn’t Greenpeace need a new bold vision to make an impact – and if so – what is it?
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Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister of Syria
Wed 21 Nov 2012
Why did Riad Hijab defect from the regime of President Bashar al Assad?
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Vandana Shiva, environmentalist
Mon 19 Nov 2012
Could we really end poverty by returning to old fashioned ways of farming?
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James Cracknell - former Olympic rower
Fri 16 Nov 2012
What resources has Olympic rower James Cracknell needed to endure serious brain damage?
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Radoslaw Sikorski - Foreign Minister of Poland
Wed 14 Nov 2012
Do Poles really want to cede their hard won sovereignty to Brussels and Berlin?
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Leonid Kozhara - Foreign Policy Advisor to the Ukrainian President
Fri 9 Nov 2012
Tim Franks asks whether Ukraine has turned its back on the on the offer of EU membership.
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Hisham Qandil - Prime Minister, Egypt
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Stephen Sackur talks to Egypt's prime minister Hisham Qandil.
