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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French Minister for Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire: EU faces 'gravest crisis'
Fri 22 May 2020
France's Minister for Economy and Finance on how the EU should respond to the pandemic
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Anders Tegnell: Is Sweden the best model for coronavirus response?
Mon 18 May 2020
Sweden's no-lockdown response has attracted worldwide attention - is it working?
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David Miliband: President, International Rescue Committee
Fri 15 May 2020
Former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband on international response to coronavirus
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Luiz Henrique Mandetta: Brazil's sacked Health Minister speaks out
Mon 11 May 2020
Fired by Pres Bolsonaro, we ask Mr Mandetta if Brazil risks being the new Covid epicentre
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US Democrat Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison: Joe Biden 'bringing calm to the storm we're in'
Fri 8 May 2020
Jaime Harrison is running against Republican Senator Lindsay Graham in South Carolina
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Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld: 'Decline of the EU is possible but it's in our own hands'
Mon 4 May 2020
Pro-EU Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld on challenges for the EU as it deals with coronavirus
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Liu Xiaoming: Is China a victim of Covid-19 or the source of the problem?
Fri 1 May 2020
Can the world trust China to come clean over the Covid-19 virus?
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Yuval Noah Harari: Covid-19 - a new regime of surveillance?
Mon 27 Apr 2020
What 21st-century lesson can we draw from the spread of Covid-19?
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Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to Hungary's State Secretary for International Communication
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David Nabarro: Is the WHO failing its greatest test?
Mon 20 Apr 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the World Health Organisation's special envoy for Covid-19
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Brian Cox: From poverty to Succession
Mon 13 Apr 2020
What drives the star of the hit HBO drama Succession?
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Jens Stoltenberg: Has Nato risen to the challenge of Covid-19?
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Could Covid-19 enhance or undermine multi-lateral institutions?
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Ola Källenius: Surviving coronavirus's economic shock
Fri 27 Mar 2020
What will the economic landscape look like when the pandemic is over?
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Antonio Guterres: How should the UN fight Covid-19?
Wed 25 Mar 2020
The Secretary General of the United Nations talks to Zeinab Badawi
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Margaret Heffernan: Is it time to embrace uncertainty?
Mon 23 Mar 2020
Acclaimed writer Margaret Heffernan has published a book on the fallacies of forecasting.
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Laurence Boone: Is enough being done to prevent a recession?
Fri 20 Mar 2020
The chief economist at the global economic forum, the OECD, discusses Covid-19
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Eoin Ó Broin: Will Sinn Fein be part of Ireland's government?
Wed 18 Mar 2020
Does political uncertainty now make Ireland especially vulnerable to coronavirus?
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Mufaddal Hamadeh: Is the world indifferent to Syria's sufffering?
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Shaun Ley speaks to the president of the Syrian American Medical Society
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Ian Goldin: Will Covid-19 cause a new recession?
Fri 13 Mar 2020
How severe will the financial effects of the coronavirus be?
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Congressman Anthony Brown: Is Joe Biden really the best the Democrats can do?
Wed 11 Mar 2020
Democrat Congressman Anthony Brown on the best candidate to beat Donald Trump
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William Kentridge: The unnaturalness of apartheid
Mon 9 Mar 2020
Zeinab Badawi is in Johannesburg, talking to renowned artist William Kentridge
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Gabriel Attal: Has the magic worn off France's Emmanuel Macron?
Fri 6 Mar 2020
Mr Attal is the Minister for Youth and a rising star in the President’s En Marche party.
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David Tait: Speaking out about sexual abuse
Wed 4 Mar 2020
Shaun Ley interviews David Tait, successful financier and survivor of sexual abuse
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Mmusi Maimane: Can his new party become a force in South Africa?
Mon 2 Mar 2020
Zeinab Badawi asks Mmusi Maimane about the state of South African politics
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Professor David Heymann: The fight against coronavirus
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Is the World Health Organisation moving fast enough?
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Dr Yasser Abu Jamei: Mental health in Gaza
Wed 26 Feb 2020
What happens to a people living with trauma and collective despair?
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Alan Dershowitz: Are the rich above the law?
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Stephen Sackur cross examines one of America's most high profile lawyers.
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Tarana Burke: What difference has #MeToo made?
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the woman who first coined the phrase "Me Too"
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Halima Aden: Challenging supermodel stereotypes
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Top models are deemed to have a look that attracts and sells. But how diverse is it?
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Agnes Callamard: Investigating the Khashoggi and Soleimani killings
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Stephen Sackur interviews UN Special Rapporteur on extra judicial killing Agnes Callamard
