The Interview Podcast
Conversations with people shaping our world. Listen to The Interview for the best conversations from the Â鶹Éç, 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 Â鶹Éç, 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 Â鶹Éç, 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 Â鶹Éç, 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 #TheInterviewÂ鶹Éç on social media.
Episodes to download
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Former British Foreign Secretary - Jack Straw
Fri 2 Aug 2019
Can a calamitous conflict between the West and Iran be avoided?
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Leader, Hong Kong Civic Party - Alvin Yeung
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Hong Kong is in uproar. Alvin Yueng, who leads the Civic Party shares their fears.
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Minister of National Development Planning, Indonesia - Bambang Brodjonegoro
Mon 29 Jul 2019
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
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Albert Woodfox: Life after solitary confinement
Fri 26 Jul 2019
What does freedom really mean for someone who spent four decades in solitary confinement?
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Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India - Raghuram Rajan
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Will he be the next Governor of the Bank of England?
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Mayor of Istanbul - Ekrem ImamoÄŸlu
Fri 19 Jul 2019
Have voters in Istanbul dealt President Erdogan a serious blow?
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Nobel Prize-winning economist - Sir Angus Deaton
Mon 15 Jul 2019
What can Western democracies do to tame capitalism and reduce its worst effects?
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Prime Minister, Greece - Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Can a new government transform Greece's fortunes?
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President of the UK Supreme Court - Lady Hale
Wed 10 Jul 2019
Is the British justice system failing the people it is supposed to serve?
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Former UK Prime Minister - Sir John Major
Mon 8 Jul 2019
What kind of country will emerge from the Brexit mess?
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US Republican Senator, Florida - Rick Scott
Fri 5 Jul 2019
How effective and how sustainable is the Trump presidency?
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Former East German sprinter - Ines Geipel
Wed 3 Jul 2019
Doped for decades, East German athletes still searching for truth and justice.
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Actor and activist - Michael Sheen
Fri 28 Jun 2019
How does Michael Sheen use his fame to help the Welsh community he grew up in?
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Chairman of the UK Brexit Party - Richard Tice
Wed 26 Jun 2019
What does the success of the Brexit Party in the European elections mean for the UK?
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US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber and Communications - Robert Strayer
Mon 24 Jun 2019
Is Washington losing the cyberwar?
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Senior adviser to President Obama (2009-2017) - Valerie Jarrett
Wed 19 Jun 2019
How will historians view the Obama legacy?
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Bas Eickhout, Dutch MEP, GreenLeft Party
Fri 7 Jun 2019
Political power inside the EU is no longer between the centre left and centre right.
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US Democratic Party funder - Tom Steyer
Wed 5 Jun 2019
Is a major Democratic Party funder in danger of pushing the party in the wrong direction?
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Iyad El-Baghdadi, human rights activist
Mon 3 Jun 2019
Iyad El-Baghdadi is a human rights activist who was granted political asylum in Oslo
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Historian, geographer, anthropolgist and author Jared Diamond
Fri 31 May 2019
What’s his conclusion about the long term viability of homo sapiens?
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Eric Wainaina, musician
Wed 29 May 2019
Eric Wainaina's music tackles issues like corruption. How political is he prepared to be?
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Libyan author Hisham Matar
Mon 27 May 2019
HARDtalk explores the impact of having a father ‘disappeared’ by the Gaddafi regime.
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Justice for the 21, 1974 Birmingham pub bombings - Julie Hambleton
Fri 24 May 2019
Is it now too late to get to the truth behind the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings?
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Hamas spokesman - Ghazi Hamad
Wed 22 May 2019
The movement’s rhetoric is unbending, but do the Palestinian people long for new ideas?
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Former Olympic swimmer - Sharron Davies
Mon 20 May 2019
How does the sporting notion of fairness cope with the complexities of gender identity?
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Opposition leader of Russia's Yabloko Party - Grigory Yavlinsky
Fri 17 May 2019
Why have Vladimir Putin's opponents failed to make a dent in his strong-man rule?
