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 Krugman: Nobel Prize-winning economist warns of threat to America’s economic future
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Is partisanship infecting every corner of today's realm of ideas?
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Len McCluskey: What's the future of the UK Labour Party?
Wed 12 Feb 2020
The leader of the party's biggest financial backer on what it should do next
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John Kani: Art and activism
Mon 10 Feb 2020
How hard is it to tell South Africa’s post-apartheid story?
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Ian Blackford: Does the SNP have a winning strategy?
Fri 7 Feb 2020
The Scotish nationalists have plenty of passion, but do they have a winning strategy?
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Ai Weiwei: Huawei, Hong Kong and being an artist in exile
Wed 5 Feb 2020
China's most internationally-famous artist reflects on its political and cultural reality
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Lauri Love: The realities of cyber security
Mon 3 Feb 2020
What does an accused hacker's case tell us about the realities of cyber security?
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Jean-Claude Juncker: What's next for the EU and Britain?
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to the outgoing EU Commission President
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Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?
Wed 29 Jan 2020
The country's former Ambassador for the Environment analyses the government's approach
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Mindu Hornick: Don't let Auschwitz memories erode
Mon 27 Jan 2020
Mindu Hornick and her sister survived Auschwitz 75 years ago, but their family did not
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Don Bacon: Will Republicans regret their loyalty to Trump?
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Stephen Sackur speaks to Republican Congressman Don Bacon
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Alexander Blackman: How should crimes on the battlefield be handled?
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman killed a wounded Taliban fighter in 2011
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Tony Garnett: Making TV with a radical purpose
Mon 20 Jan 2020
Another chance to hear our 2016 interview with the pioneering film and TV producer
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Seth Freedman: Spying for Harvey Weinstein
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Who polices the shadowy world of private intelligence?
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Douglas Silliman: What is Donald Trump's strategy in Iraq?
Wed 15 Jan 2020
The former US ambassador to Iraq assesses the White House's possible next moves
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Sir Antony Gormley: Britain's most successful sculptor
Mon 13 Jan 2020
His inspiration is the human body, in fact, his own body.
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Vali Nasr: Have strategic realities in the Middle East changed?
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Who’s gained and who’s lost after the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani?
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Ayad Allawi: What if the US pulls out of Iraq?
Wed 8 Jan 2020
Do rising tensions between the US and Iran spell disaster for Iraq?
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Malcolm Gladwell: Should we trust strangers?
Mon 6 Jan 2020
Stephen Sackur meets the author described as America's most famous intellectual
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Andrew Mitchell MP: What will Boris Johnson do next?
Fri 20 Dec 2019
The scale of the Conservative Party triumph promises to have seismic consequences.
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Staffan de Mistura: Can the international community still stop wars?
Wed 18 Dec 2019
Is it time to acknowledge the irrelevance of the international peacemakers?
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Bill Bryson: US author demystifying the British
Mon 16 Dec 2019
What has US author Bill Bryson learned from his gentle search for understanding?
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Aryana Sayeed: Afghanistan’s biggest pop star
Fri 13 Dec 2019
She has braved death threats to campaign for women’s rights and artistic freedom
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Eliot Higgins: Searching for facts in a 'post-truth' world
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Can complex truths be revealed using digital fragments from the worldwide web?
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Megan Phelps-Roper: Leaving 'America's most obnoxious hate group'
Mon 9 Dec 2019
A former Westboro Baptist Church member discusses leaving the group
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Daniel Jones: The man who unveiled the CIA’s darkest secrets
Fri 6 Dec 2019
Daniel Jones led a six-year investigation into the CIA's torture practices after 9/11
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Behrouz Boochani: Six years as a marooned migrant
Wed 4 Dec 2019
Behrouz Boochani is now a prize-winning author, but is his long-term fate any clearer?
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Stephen Sackur is on the road in Zimbabwe
Mon 2 Dec 2019
How are Zimbabweans faring in the face of economic collapse and environmental crisis?
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Wendell Pierce: A tale of two Americas
Fri 29 Nov 2019
Wendell Pierce starred as Detective Bunk Moreland in the American TV series The Wire
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Liu Xiaoming: How will China respond to unrest in Hong Kong?
Wed 27 Nov 2019
Is Chinese leader Xi Jinping facing the most serious challenge of his presidency?
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Mangaliso Ndlovu: Can Zimbabwe avert environmental disaster?
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Zimbabwe is wrestling with economic crisis, endemic corruption and prolonged drought.
