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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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Yuri Vitrenko: Russia, Ukraine and Europe's energy

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Kiril Petkov: Is Bulgaria ready to stand up to Russia?

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Michael McCaul: Is Biden up to facing off with Putin?

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George Takei, Actor

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Marine Le Pen: France's future president?

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Gabrielius Landsbergis: Tension in Eastern Europe

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Bassem Youssef: Do we expect too much from satire?

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Isabel Allende: What does South America's future hold?

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Mariana Mazzucato: The space race and our economic futures

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Dominic Lee: China's Hong Kong takeover

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Mohammad Marandi: Iran's nuclear negotiations

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Damian Collins: Can Boris Johnson be trusted?

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Oleksii Reznikov: An invasion of Ukraine?

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Kathleen Stock: The debate about sex, gender and equality

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Baroness Helena Kennedy QC: Fighting for equality in British law

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Sathnam Sanghera: Confronting Britain's history

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Bryan Stevenson: Will equality ever be more than a dream in the US?

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Nureldin Satti: Sudan's coup

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Laurence Tribe: Is the US system of government in peril?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Trust in science

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Ernesto Araújo: Has Brazil failed to protect its people?

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Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov: Fighting for a free press

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John Kerry: US Special Envoy for Climate

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Moeed Yusuf: What will a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan mean for Pakistan?

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Ken Buck: Big tech and Republican politics

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Nicolai Tangen: Can Norway move on from fossil fuels?

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Rana Ayyub: Abuse, intimidation and legal threats

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Péter Márki-Zay: Can Viktor Orban be beaten at the ballot box?

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Ryan Girdusky: Race and education in America

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George Takei: Growing up in an internment camp

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Ritchie Torres: Is America ready to embrace progressive politics?

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Pawel Jablonski: Could Poland exit the EU?

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Patrice Evra: The flaws in football

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Mike Leigh: Art and the cinema

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Prime Minister Albin Kurti: Is he a source of instability in the Balkans?

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Fiona Hill: What did Trump mean for America and the world?

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Fatih Birol: Can greenhouse gas emissions be eliminated?

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Bruno Le Maire: Is France looking for a new economic direction?

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Ariel Dorfman: Ghosts of the past

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David Baddiel, Comedian and writer

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Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary

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Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying

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Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?

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Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US

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Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security

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Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet

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Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?

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Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials

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Michel Barnier on Brexit fallout

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Rafael Grossi - Nuclear fallout

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