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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Pakistan's former Foreign Minister - Hina Rabbani Khar
Mon 2 May 2016
Is Pakistan playing a double game on regional security?
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Professor Robert Reich – United States Secretary of Labor, 1993-97
Fri 29 Apr 2016
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, on the Sanders campaign and Hilary Clinton
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Civil Rights Activist - Rachel Dolezal
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Is our racial identity something we can define for ourselves?
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Former president, World Anti-Doping Agency - Dick Pound
Mon 25 Apr 2016
After so many doping scandals, must all sporting success be treated with suspicion?
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Chairman and founder of JD Wetherspoon - Tim Martin
Fri 22 Apr 2016
A voice from the business world makes the case for Brexit. Could it make economic sense?
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IMF Managing Director - Christine Lagarde
Mon 18 Apr 2016
Is there trouble ahead for the global economy?
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US Congresswoman - Donna Edwards (Democrat)
Fri 15 Apr 2016
Is America ready for genuinely left-wing politics? American Democrats must decide.
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Fahd al Rasheed, CEO King Abdullah Economic City
Wed 6 Apr 2016
HARDtalk speaks to Fahd al Rasheed, CEO of King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia.
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Vladimir Chizhov - Russian Ambassador to the EU
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Stephen Sackur speaks to Vladimir Chizhov - the Russian Ambassador to the EU
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Chairman, Intelligence and Security Committee, UK - Dominic Grieve MP
Mon 28 Mar 2016
Following the recent attacks in Brussels, can Europe be both secure and free?
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Architect - David Adjaye
Fri 25 Mar 2016
Can architecture inspire people to think and behave differently?
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The Foreign Minister of Finland, Timo Soini
Wed 23 Mar 2016
Timo Soini, leader of The Finns right wing populist party on sharing power
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OSCE Secretary General - Lamberto Zannier
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Stephen Sackur speaks to the OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier.
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Sevgi Akarçeşme, Editor in Chief "Today's Zaman", Turkey
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Stephen Sackur speaks to Sevgi Akarçeşme, Editor in Chief "Today's Zaman", Turkey.
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Lebanon's Education Minister - Elias Bou Saab
Wed 16 Mar 2016
What is the collateral damage for Lebanon from the Syrian conflict?
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Greek Minister of Labour and Social Security - George Katrougalos
Fri 11 Mar 2016
Greek Minister of Labour and Social Security George Katrougalos on the EU migrant deal
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Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs - Meglena Kuneva
Wed 9 Mar 2016
Meglena Kuneva on Bulgaria's stance towards the European refugee and migrant deal
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Vice President of Panama - Isabel De Saint Malo De Alvarado
Mon 7 Mar 2016
A generation after the crooked rule of General Noriega has Panama cleaned up it's act?
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Selim Yenel – Turkey’s Ambassador to the European Union
Fri 4 Mar 2016
Stephen Sackur speaks to Selim Yenel, Turkey’s Ambassador to the European Union.
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Former US Democrat Congressman - Anthony Weiner
Wed 2 Mar 2016
Anthony Weiner's career was destroyed by two bizarre sex scandals. Why did he do it?
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Janet Napolitano, former US Secretary of Homeland Security
Mon 29 Feb 2016
Zeinab Badawi interviews Janet Napolitano, former US Secretary of Homeland Security.
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MARTIN SCHULZ, President of the European Parliament
Fri 26 Feb 2016
Sarah Montague talks to Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament
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Former Director of the CIA - General Michael Hayden
Wed 24 Feb 2016
Stephen Sackur talks to the former director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis – President of New Democracy, Greece
Mon 22 Feb 2016
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of the Greek New Democracy party
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Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Poland - Krzysztof Szczerski
Fri 19 Feb 2016
How will a newly assertive Poland play its hand in Europe?
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Bassma Kodmani, Syrian opposition negotiator
Wed 17 Feb 2016
Stephen Sackur speaks to Syrian opposition negotiator, Bassma Kodmani.
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Fahd al Rasheed
Mon 15 Feb 2016
Stephen Sackur speaks with Fahd al Rasheed, CEO of King Abdullah Economic City.
