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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Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the former First Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh.
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Albert Woodfox: Freedom after a life inside
Wed 10 Aug 2022
In 2019, Stephen Sackur spoke to the former member of the Black Panther movement
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Gregory Doran: Why does Shakespeare still captivate us?
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews the artistic director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company
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The Singh Twins: Mixing art and politics
Wed 3 Aug 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed contemporary British artists
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Julius Malema: Is South Africa on the brink of chaos?
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters
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Fatih Birol: Could short-term panic derail the clean energy transition?
Wed 27 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the International Energy Agency.
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Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?
Fri 22 Jul 2022
An interview with the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation
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Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to Omah Lay, Nigerian Afrobeats Musician
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Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chief justice of Ethiopia's Supreme Court
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Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil
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Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds
Mon 11 Jul 2022
An influential writer argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti-racist
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Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?
Fri 8 Jul 2022
Nury Turkel is leading the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs
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Steve Thompson: Rugby's traumatic legacy
Wed 6 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a former rugby player living with early-onset dementia
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Lord Patten: Were promises to Hong Kong broken?
Fri 1 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to the former governor of Hong Kong
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K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to choose between the US and China?
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Singapore’s minister of home affairs
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Henry Huiyao Wang: Is China exposing its vulnerabilities?
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a China thinktank founder and sometime government adviser
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João Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU’s Ambassador to the UK
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Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy PM for European integration
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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Moldova's foreign minister and deputy prime minister
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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the European Space Agency
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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's ambassador to the UN
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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled female politician
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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?
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Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
Wed 1 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an internationally renowned Harvard historian
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Danica Roem: America's culture wars
Mon 30 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to America’s first transgender state lawmaker
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
Fri 27 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of Uruguay
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Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
Wed 25 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the secretary general of Nato
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Iván Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
Mon 23 May 2022
Does the Duque Presidency signal the conclusive failure of Colombia’s ruling elite?
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Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
Fri 20 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of America's biggest Christian preachers
