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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Paul Auster: 'We are divided in ways we have never seen before'
Mon 6 Dec 2021
Another chance to hear Stephen Sackur 2021 interview with the late Paul Auster
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Ken Buck: Big tech and Republican politics
Wed 1 Dec 2021
Is Donald Trump still at the heart of American conservatives' worldview?
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Nicolai Tangen: Can Norway move on from fossil fuels?
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the man behind Norway's $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund
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Rana Ayyub: Abuse, intimidation and legal threats
Fri 26 Nov 2021
We speak to Rana Ayyub, who has dug deep into the past and present of India's PM
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Péter Márki-Zay: Can Viktor Orban be beaten at the ballot box?
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur interviews the Hungarian opposition leader
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Ryan Girdusky: Race and education in America
Mon 22 Nov 2021
A conservative activist claims America’s schoolchildren are being brainwashed about race
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George Takei: Growing up in an internment camp
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur talks to George Takei, forever famous as Lieutenant Sulu in Star Trek
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Ritchie Torres: Is America ready to embrace progressive politics?
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to a rising star of the Democratic Party
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Pawel Jablonski: Could Poland exit the EU?
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Poland's deputy foreign minister
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Patrice Evra: The flaws in football
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Why a former Manchester United and France star has revealed his emotional scars
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Mike Leigh: Art and the cinema
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the world's most acclaimed directors
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Prime Minister Albin Kurti: Is he a source of instability in the Balkans?
Fri 5 Nov 2021
Albin Kurti has been a political prisoner and now sees Kosovo unifying with Albania
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Fiona Hill: What did Trump mean for America and the world?
Wed 3 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to a key witness in President Trump's first impeachment trial
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Fatih Birol: Can greenhouse gas emissions be eliminated?
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the executive director of the International Energy Agency
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Bruno Le Maire: Is France looking for a new economic direction?
Fri 29 Oct 2021
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has ambitions for a more dynamic and green economy
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Ariel Dorfman: Ghosts of the past
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the acclaimed Chilean-American writer
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David Baddiel, Comedian and writer
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and comedian David Baddiel
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Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Why is an Australian mining billionaire trying to push a green agenda?
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Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Why a neurosurgeon is lobbying for the legislation of assisted dying
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Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Is international justice an ideal which the world has signally failed to live up to?
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Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States
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Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security
Wed 13 Oct 2021
As a spike in fossil fuel prices looks to benefit Russia, how will it flex its influence?
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Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?
Fri 8 Oct 2021
Is a nudge better than a shove when change is needed?
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Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Wed 6 Oct 2021
Have the Nuremberg trials made genocide and crimes against humanity less likely today?
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Michel Barnier on Brexit fallout
Fri 1 Oct 2021
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
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Rafael Grossi - Nuclear fallout
Wed 29 Sep 2021
We speak to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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Nitin Sawhney, Musician and Composer
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur interviews British Indian musician and composer Nitin Sawhney.
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Roger Deakins: How is technology changing cinema?
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the world's most celebrated cinematographers
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Bryan Hughes: Abortion in Texas
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Republicans in Texas have managed to ban abortion in almost all cases in their state
