The Interview Podcast
Conversations with people shaping our world. Listen to The Interview for the best conversations from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, with the people shaping our world, from all over the world.
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Episodes to download
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Albert Woodfox: Freedom after a life inside
Wed 10 Aug 2022
In 2019, Stephen Sackur spoke to the former member of the Black Panther movement
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Gregory Doran: Why does Shakespeare still captivate us?
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews the artistic director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company
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The Singh Twins: Mixing art and politics
Wed 3 Aug 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed contemporary British artists
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Julius Malema: Is South Africa on the brink of chaos?
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters
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Fatih Birol: Could short-term panic derail the clean energy transition?
Wed 27 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the International Energy Agency.
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Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?
Fri 22 Jul 2022
An interview with the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation
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Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to Omah Lay, Nigerian Afrobeats Musician
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Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chief justice of Ethiopia's Supreme Court
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Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil
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Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds
Mon 11 Jul 2022
An influential writer argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti-racist
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Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?
Fri 8 Jul 2022
Nury Turkel is leading the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs
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Steve Thompson: Rugby's traumatic legacy
Wed 6 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a former rugby player living with early-onset dementia
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Lord Patten: Were promises to Hong Kong broken?
Fri 1 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to the former governor of Hong Kong
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K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to choose between the US and China?
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Singapore’s minister of home affairs
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Henry Huiyao Wang: Is China exposing its vulnerabilities?
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a China thinktank founder and sometime government adviser
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João Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU’s Ambassador to the UK
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Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy PM for European integration
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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Moldova's foreign minister and deputy prime minister
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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the European Space Agency
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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's ambassador to the UN
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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled female politician
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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?
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Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
Wed 1 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an internationally renowned Harvard historian
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Danica Roem: America's culture wars
Mon 30 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to America’s first transgender state lawmaker
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
Fri 27 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of Uruguay
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Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
Wed 25 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the secretary general of Nato
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Iván Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
Mon 23 May 2022
Does the Duque Presidency signal the conclusive failure of Colombia’s ruling elite?
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Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
Fri 20 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of America's biggest Christian preachers
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Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
Wed 18 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the wife of the Wikileaks founder