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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Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
Wed 18 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the wife of the Wikileaks founder
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Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
Mon 16 May 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the CEO of Save the Children International
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Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
Fri 13 May 2022
Victoria Spartz, Republican Congresswoman is an ardent advocate of US support for Kyiv
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Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
Wed 11 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee
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Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
Mon 9 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Jim Green, former chief scientist at Nasa
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Zoltán Kovács: Whose side is Hungary really on?
Fri 6 May 2022
Zoltán Kovács, Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication on Russia
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Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
Wed 4 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the financier and anti-Putin campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act
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Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Mon 2 May 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the General Secretary of the UK’s Trades Union Congress
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Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline
Wed 27 Apr 2022
A Ukrainian musician who has exchanged stadium gigs for a military uniform
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled Russian businessman
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail
Wed 20 Apr 2022
The story of an Australian academic who was released from an Iranian jail in 2020
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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur talks to one of the UK's most popular comedians
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Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to one of Kenya’s most ground-breaking cultural figures
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Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled Russian economist
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Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin’s strategy be a template for China to follow?
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Taipei’s representative to the EU
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Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'
Fri 8 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to sanctioned F1 Driver Nikita Mazepin.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?
Wed 6 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's Foreign Minister as evidence of atrocities emerges
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Claude Joseph: Can Haiti be saved?
Mon 4 Apr 2022
What will it take to resolve the Caribbean nation's crises?
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Maria Butina: What is Russia achieving in Ukraine?
Fri 1 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a pro-Putin member of Russia’s state Duma
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Mairead McGuinness: How far will the EU go to support Kyiv?
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU commissioner for financial services
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Ilya Ponomarev: A former Russian MP on fighting Putin
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to an ex-Russian MP who is fighting in Ukraine - against Russia
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Francis Fukuyama: The end of the end of history?
Wed 23 Mar 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to the renowned political scientist
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Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer
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Tobias Ellwood: How should the West stand up to Putin?
Wed 16 Mar 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee
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Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the prime minister of Norway
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Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: Is the fate of Belarus tied to the fate of Ukraine?
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled leader of Belarus's opposition
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Michael Carpenter: Is this a new age of conflict?
Wed 9 Mar 2022
Will Russia's invasion of Ukraine lead to a new, long-term cold war?
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Former Ukrainian PM
Mon 7 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
