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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Dominique Schnapper on secularism in France after Samuel Paty's killing
Wed 28 Oct 2020
Dominique Schnapper heads a council which advises the French government on secularism
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Peter Frankopan: Can history offer us any lessons on the coronavirus pandemic?
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the historian and bestselling author
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Jack Kingston: Can Trump win?
Wed 21 Oct 2020
The polls consistently say Trump is in trouble. Is there reason to think they are wrong?
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Jim O'Neill: Is this a time for governments to be bold?
Fri 16 Oct 2020
A British economist explains why he thinks big measures are needed to revive growth
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Rob Schenck: Can Trump still count on the religious right?
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Will the evangelical Christian right still give Donald Trump their support?
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Volodymyr Zelensky: How is Ukraine's president faring?
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Has the former actor, elected in April 2019, been able to deliver on his pledges?
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Narendra Taneja: How well has India handled the coronavirus crisis?
Fri 9 Oct 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the national spokesman for India's ruling BJP
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Joe Henrich: Is Western society 'weird'?
Wed 7 Oct 2020
A Harvard professor argues the West's cultural power has skewed our view of normality
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James Rebanks: Sustainable food in a growing world
Mon 5 Oct 2020
Are this shepherd's ideas for more sustainable farming compatible with affordable food?
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Leroy Logan: How hard is it to root out discrimination in the police?
Fri 2 Oct 2020
Leroy Logan was one of London's top black policemen until his retirement seven years ago
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Paolo Gentiloni: Can Europe's economy recover?
Wed 30 Sep 2020
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the European Commissioner for the Economy
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Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system
Mon 28 Sep 2020
Poet and activist Yusef Salaam on the chance of real change in the US justice system
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Leonid Volkov: What next for Russia's opposition?
Wed 23 Sep 2020
Alexey Navalny's chief of staff discusses the future of the anti-Putin political movement
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Thomas Chatterton Williams: Race, identity and power
Fri 18 Sep 2020
A mixed-race American writer who challenges the so-called 'woke' culture
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Rafael Grossi: Is the world's nuclear watchdog being undermined?
Wed 16 Sep 2020
We speak to the new chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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Douglas Ross: Can the new Scottish Conservative leader preserve the UK?
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Polls suggest more and more Scots want out of the United Kingdom - can Ross preserve it?
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Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?
Fri 11 Sep 2020
The Lithuanian president discusses the geopolitics at play in neighbouring Belarus
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Frank Luntz: Can Donald Trump win?
Wed 9 Sep 2020
We speak to the veteran Republican party pollster and consultant Frank Luntz
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Laura Kövesi: Can the EU's 'corruption buster' deliver?
Mon 7 Sep 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU's first public prosecutor
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UN Secretary General António Guterres: Is multilateralism dead?
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Is the pandemic is unleashing a tsunami of scapegoating, hate and xenophobia?
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Alfre Woodard: The artist and the activist
Wed 2 Sep 2020
A veteran screen actor discusses making art in America's current political climate
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Sam Harris: A place for conversation in an angry world
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Is extremism and intolerance drowning out reasoned debate?
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Natalia Pasternak: Brazil's battle between science and politics
Fri 28 Aug 2020
We hear from the microbiologist who has hit out at Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro
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Natalia Kaliada: Where do Belarus activists go from here?
Wed 26 Aug 2020
An exiled artist gives her thoughts on the protests against Alexander Lukashenko
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Katie Hill: When a politician's nude photos are leaked
Mon 24 Aug 2020
What does a former Congresswoman's case tell us about sexism and modern politics?
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Kishore Mahbubani: Has Covid-19 weakened the West?
Fri 21 Aug 2020
A former Singaporean diplomat says the pandemic has shifted the global balance of power
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Abdalla Hamdok: Exclusive interview with Sudan's Prime Minister
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Has the euphoria that followed last year's revolution given way to harsh realities?
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Wu'er Kaixi: China's crackdown on Uighur dissent
Mon 17 Aug 2020
We speak to Wu'er Kaixi, a Chinese political dissident in exile since Tiananmen
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Nikol Pashinyan: Peace for Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Fri 14 Aug 2020
We speak to the Armenian Prime Minister about their conflict with Azerbaijan.
