The Interview
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...
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Péter Szijjártó: Is Hungary alienating the EU and Nato?
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Christo Grozev: Investigating Russia
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Danny Danon: Is Netanyahu jeopardising Israel’s future?
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Ben Ferencz: The last Nuremberg trials prosecutor
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Richard Neal: How Northern Ireland affects US-UK relations
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Geoffrey Robertson: The case for international justice
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David Beasley: Can the world afford to feed its most vulnerable?
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Bogdan Aurescu: How is Romania handling the pressure from the war on Ukraine?
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Petr Pavel: Can Ukraine still count on Europe's support?
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Evgeny Popov: Are cracks appearing at the Kremlin?
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James Daunt: Is the books industry a place where creativity and diversity truly...
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Mustafa Barghouti: Can Palestinians improve their situation?
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Sergei Pugachev: Inside Putin's rise
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Simcha Rothman: Is Israel plunging into chaos?
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Notis Mitarachi: Has Greece's government lost the confidence of the people?
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Félix Maradiaga: Standing up to Nicaragua's president
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Tikhon Dzyadko: Is there an audience for independent news in Russia?
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Ece Temelkuran: Is Erdogan's control of Turkey under threat?
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Olesya Khromeychuk: Conflict and identity
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Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying
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Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM
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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights
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Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?
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Kira Rudik: Can Ukraine win this war?
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Pervez Musharraf: Power in Pakistan
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Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?
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Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?
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Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?
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Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?
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Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin
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Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
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Hardtalk in 2022
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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights
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David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?
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Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?
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London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?
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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy
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Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?
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Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?
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