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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Kaja Kallas: Do Nato and the EU have Estonia's back?
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Tzipi Hotovely: Israel's ambassador to the UK
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Harry Theoharis: What is in store for European summer holidays?
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Fawzia Koofi: The future for women in Afghanistan
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Mohammed Alyahya: Does Saudi Arabia still have America's support?
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi: What is the Guantanamo legacy?
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Artists Gilbert Prousch & George Passmore
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Dmytro Kuleba: Has the Russian threat to Ukraine receded?
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Sir Peter Westmacott: Are we at peak geopolitical risk?
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Navalny aide Vladimir Ashurkov: Is Putin about to eliminate his most dangerous o...
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Michael Mann: The new climate war?
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Silvia Foti: When truth trumps family loyalty
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Serj Tankian: System of a Down frontman on activism and music
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Are better days coming for Zimbabwe?
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Amrullah Saleh: Is the Afghan peace process running out of road?
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Ken Rogoff: Does Bidenomics make sense?
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Barbara Amiel: What do the super-rich owe the rest of the world?
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Sir Vartan Melkonian: From Beirut street child to the Royal Philharmonic Orchest...
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Erika Lust: Can porn be feminist?
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Marina Abramović: A remarkable career pushed to the limits
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Jean-Claude Juncker: Is Covid an unprecedented test of EU cohesion?
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Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee: Is the concept of ‘one country, two systems’ dead?
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Baroness Minouche Shafik: What do we owe each other?
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Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark?
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Vjosa Osmani: Acting President of Kosovo
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Adar Poonawalla: How to vaccinate the world
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Dr Sasa: Does Myanmar have a democratic future?
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Jewher Ilham: Fears for her Uighur family in China
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Evan McMullin: What next for anti-Trump Republicans?
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Khin Zaw Win: Protests in Myanmar
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Valdis Dombrovskis: Is the EU ready to aggressively defend its interests?
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Harvey Goldsmith: Can live music survive Covid?
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Dr Seth Berkley: How to ensure the whole world gets a Covid vaccine
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Elizabeth Neumann: The battle for the soul of the US Republican Party
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Timothy Snyder: Lessons from history
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Douglas Stuart: Stories of tender souls in tough places
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Yogendra Yadav: Are farmers' protests a defining moment for India?
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Kirill Dmitriev: Russia's Sputnik V a vaccine for humankind?
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Clément Beaune: Is Covid-19 exposing weaknesses in the EU?
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Laurie Santos: Can we learn how to be happy?
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Evan Medeiros: How should Biden approach China?
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Has Belarus’s revolution stalled?
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Dr Soumya Swaminathan: Is vaccine inequity undermining the fight against Covid?
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Madawi Al-Rasheed: Can the Saudi Crown Prince's authority really be challenged?
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Thomas Byrne: Ireland's twin challenge
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Leonid Volkov: Protests on the streets of Russia
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Yuli Edelstein: Israel's Covid-19 vaccination programme leads the world
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Lina Khan: Can big tech companies be tamed by US antitrust laws?
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Kenneth Chan: Is democracy lost in Hong Kong?
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Tamara Rojo: Ballet in a pandemic
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