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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Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?
Mon 6 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary’s Prime Minister
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Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?
Wed 1 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain
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Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran
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Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela’s opposition.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s foreign minister
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Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave
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Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula’s foreign policy advisor
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
Wed 18 Jan 2023
An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist
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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
Fri 13 Jan 2023
A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist
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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
Wed 11 Jan 2023
A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine
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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child
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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan’s opposition PTI party
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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
Wed 4 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist
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Hardtalk in 2022
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk’s most compelling interviews of the year
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Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party
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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party
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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights
Wed 14 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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Allen Ault: Opposing the death penalty
Fri 9 Dec 2022
A 2014 interview with Allen Ault, who became a campaigner against the death penalty
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David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?
Wed 7 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the billionaire investor David Friedberg.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur meets the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed US lies about Vietnam
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London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?
Fri 2 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur is in the US to speak to San Francisco’s mayor
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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer
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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy
Mon 28 Nov 2022
How should society deal with public monuments to controversial figures from the past?
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Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who signed the Tigray peace deal on behalf of the TPLF
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Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the former analyst who leaked a trove of US military secrets
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Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?
Mon 21 Nov 2022
Zeinab Badawi interviews the president of Georgia
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Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Zeinab Badawi interviews one of the rising stars of South Africa's ruling party
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Mark Wolf: Does the world need a new anti-corruption court?
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Why an American judge thinks a new court is needed to put corrupt leaders on trial
