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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AB Yehoshua - Author
Mon 4 Mar 2013
Can one of Israel's great writers chart a way for Israelis and Palestinians in conflict?
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Father Bernard Lynch - Priest and Psychotherapist
Fri 1 Mar 2013
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Father Bernard Lynch, one of a few openly gay Catholic priests.
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Gloria Steinem – Feminist activist and author
Wed 27 Feb 2013
How much of what Gloria Steinem hoped for and fought for has been achieved?
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Jon Huntsman - Republican Presidential Candidate 2011
Mon 25 Feb 2013
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Republican politician frequently at odds with his own party.
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Mamphela Ramphele - Politician and academic
Fri 22 Feb 2013
Stephen Sackur talks to the anti-apartheid activist about her new alternative to the ANC.
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Enrique Garcia - President - CAF - Development Bank of Latin America
Mon 18 Feb 2013
Is this Latin America's decade?
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Lucinda Creighton - Minister for European Affairs
Fri 15 Feb 2013
Can Dublin convince the world that it has bounced back from the brink of disaster?
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Fernando Carrera – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Is Guatemala in danger of becoming a narco-state?
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Hossein Mousavian - Iranian Nuclear Negotiator
Mon 11 Feb 2013
As Iran's nuclear programme gets more sophisticated, does diplomacy have a chance?
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Mohammad Jawad - Plastic Surgeon
Fri 8 Feb 2013
Reconstructing the faces of women disfigured by acid attacks in Pakistan
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Renzo Piano - Architect
Wed 6 Feb 2013
"If you make something wrong, it's wrong forever" architect Renzo Piano on building design
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Lord Ouseley – Chairman, Kick It Out
Mon 4 Feb 2013
Veteran equality campaigner Lord Ouseley on tackling racism in football
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Paul Bhatti – Minister in Charge of National Harmony, Pakistan
Fri 1 Feb 2013
What hope is there for national harmony Pakistan?
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Mark Lynas - pro-GM campaigner
Wed 30 Jan 2013
What if genetically modified food is the solution to world hunger?
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Nigel Sheinwald - UK Ambassador to the US (2007 - 2012)
Mon 28 Jan 2013
Is the Cameron EU gambit in Britain's national interest?
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Mohamed El-Erian – CEO, PIMCO
Fri 25 Jan 2013
Are central bankers and politicians ready to take bold decisions in the quest for growth?
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Doreen Lawrence
Wed 23 Jan 2013
Doreen Lawrence exposed the extent of racism in Britain. How have things changed?
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Pascal Lamy – Director General, World Trade Organisation
Mon 21 Jan 2013
Has the march toward trade liberalisation ended in failure?
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Kiran Bedi - Senior Female Police Officer in India
Fri 18 Jan 2013
Is India failing to protect women from sexual violence?
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Joaquin Almunia – EU Competition Commissioner
Wed 16 Jan 2013
Is the worst of the Eurozone crisis really over?
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Lord Heseltine – Former British Deputy Prime Minister
Fri 11 Jan 2013
Can Lord Heseltine's growth stratey juice things up for Britain's coalition government?
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Fatih Birol – Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Wed 9 Jan 2013
Is the resilience of fossil fuel supply a cause for celebration, or despair?
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Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist
Mon 7 Jan 2013
Is genuine liberation for women possible in the Arab world?
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Ian Thorpe - Australian Swimmer
Fri 4 Jan 2013
Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression.
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Alan Moore - Graphic Novelist
Wed 2 Jan 2013
Alan Moore - graphic novelist and insurgent explains why is he now becoming disillusioned.
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Philip Glass - Composer
Mon 31 Dec 2012
Philip Glass has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
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Brooke Magnanti - Belle du Jour
Fri 28 Dec 2012
Belle de Jour aka Dr Brooke Magnanti is calling for prostitution to be decriminalised.
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Lewis Moody - Former England Rugby Captain
Boxing Day 2012
Ex-England rugby captain Lewis Moody talks about his battle with bowel disease
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Sir Geoffrey Nice QC - Barrister
Christmas Eve 2012
Stephen Sackur talks to Sir Geoffrey Nice who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milosević
