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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João Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?
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Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin
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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
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Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker
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Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer
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Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
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Danica Roem: America's culture wars
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
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Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
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Iván Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
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Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
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Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
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Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
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Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
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Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
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Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
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Zoltán Kovács: Whose side is Hungary really on?
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Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
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Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?
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Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail
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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?
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Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?
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Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
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Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin’s strategy be a template for China to follow?
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Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?
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Claude Joseph: Can Haiti be saved?
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Maria Butina: What is Russia achieving in Ukraine?
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Mairead McGuinness: How far will the EU go to support Kyiv?
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Ilya Ponomarev: A former Russian MP on fighting Putin
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Francis Fukuyama: The end of the end of history?
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Tobias Ellwood: How should the West stand up to Putin?
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Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
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Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: Is the fate of Belarus tied to the fate of Ukraine?
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Michael Carpenter: Is this a new age of conflict?
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Former Ukrainian PM
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Andrey Kurkov: Putin's attack on Ukraine's identity
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David Miliband: President of the International Rescue Committee
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Iván Fischer: The power and joy of music
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Leonid Volkov: How strong is Putin's grip on Russia?
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Ingrid Betancourt: Can Colombia defeat corruption?
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Jamie Raskin, Democrat Congressman, House Committe to Investigative January 6th...
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