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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Former member of al-Qaeda - Aimen Dean
Tue 3 Mar 2015
What does his extraordinary story tell us about the nature of the jihadist threat?
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Author Andrey Kurkov
Mon 9 Feb 2015
Ukrainian novelist on the country's uprising and the impact of writing in Russian
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Scientist Anne Glover
Wed 4 Feb 2015
The EU's former Chief Scientific Advisor talks of the role's challenges
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Political and Social Activist - Jay Naidoo
Fri 30 Jan 2015
Why hasn't freedom reduced inequality in post-apartheid South Africa?
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Robbie Rogers - Footballer
Mon 26 Jan 2015
Why have other gay footballers not followed his lead - by publicly coming out?
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US Economist Luigi Zingales
Fri 23 Jan 2015
Economist Luigi Zingales says American capitalism is in crisis
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Chinese Dissident - Wu'er Kaixi
Tue 20 Jan 2015
Chinese pro-democracy student leader Wu’er Kaixi in a live debate on democracy
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Widow of Yasser Arafat - Suha Arafat
Mon 19 Jan 2015
Suha Arafat on her marriage to PLO leader Yasser Arafat and his assassination
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Richard Barrett
Fri 16 Jan 2015
Former Director of Global Counter Terrorism Operations, UK, Richard Barrett
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Yehuda Glick
Mon 12 Jan 2015
Why does he persist with his divisive campaign on Jerusalem's holiest ground?
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Economist - Costas Lapavitsas
Fri 9 Jan 2015
What next for Greece if anti-auterity party Syriza wins the elections in January?
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Chair of UK Defence Select Committee - Rory Stewart
Wed 7 Jan 2015
Is non-intervention an unacceptable risk the Middle East given the threat of extremism?
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Scientist - Monica Grady
Mon 5 Jan 2015
What did we learn from the historic landing of the Rosetta probe on a comet?
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Director General of the International Red Cross - Yves Daccord
Fri 19 Dec 2014
Is the Red Cross model of scrupulously neutral intervention broken beyond repair?
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Sir Antony Sher: Taking the stage
Mon 15 Dec 2014
A 2014 interview with one of theatre's most acclaimed actors
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South Africa’s Public Protector - Thuli Madonsela
Fri 12 Dec 2014
Did President Zuma ‘benefit unduly’ from a $25 million facelift for his private home?
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2014 - Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
Wed 10 Dec 2014
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai awarded for their struggle against suppression
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Author and Columnist - Alaa al-Aswany
Mon 8 Dec 2014
Is Egypt's story a harsh lesson in the dangers of wishful thinking?
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UN Special Co-ordinator, Middle East Peace Process - Robert Serry
Wed 3 Dec 2014
Has the time come to admit that the 'peace process' is an unhelpful fiction?
