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The Interview

BBC World Service

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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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Episodes (1962)

Reid Hoffman: Should we trust the tech elite?

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Allen Ault: Opposing the death penalty

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Mar 17, 202524:00pending

Christine Lagarde: Can Europe's economy withstand Trump 2.0?

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Mar 14, 202522:57pending

Dominique de Villepin: Can Europe become a superpower in its own right?

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Mar 12, 202522:57pending

Son of Hans Frank, Governor General of Nazi Occupied Poland - Niklas Frank

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Mar 10, 202522:58pending

Roger Carstens: Do hostage deals risk making problems worse?

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Mar 7, 202522:57pending

Volker Türk: Are we sleepwalking into a dystopian future?

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Mar 5, 202522:57pending

Badiucao: Art, power and China

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Mar 3, 202522:57pending

Lord Sumption: Is liberal democracy in big trouble?

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Feb 28, 202522:57pending

Victoria Spartz: Has Donald Trump switched sides on Ukraine?

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Feb 26, 202522:58pending

N. Ram: Freedom of expression in India

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Feb 24, 202522:58pending

Laila Soueif and Sanaa Seif: Hunger for freedom

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Feb 19, 202522:57pending

Jake Sullivan: The legacy of the Biden White House

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Feb 14, 202522:58pending

Tom Fletcher: What is the impact of US foreign aid cuts?

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Feb 13, 202522:58pending

Omar Abdullah: Can he bring peace to Jammu and Kashmir?

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Feb 12, 202522:57pending

Dhananjaya Chandrachud: Justice and the rule of law

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Feb 10, 202522:58pending

Hardeep Singh Puri: India's big ambitions

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Feb 7, 202522:57pending

Basem Naim: Can Gaza find long-term peace?

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Jan 29, 202522:57pending

Mouaz Moustafa: Will Syrians get justice?

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Jan 24, 202522:58pending

Ehud Olmert: This war must end now

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Jan 22, 202522:57pending

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Is Putin vulnerable?

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Jan 15, 202522:57pending

Asif Kapadia: Pushing the boundaries of film-making

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Jan 13, 202522:58pending

Alice Edwards: Is it possible to eradicate torture?

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Jan 10, 202522:58pending

Alan Hollinghurst: How has Britain changed since the 1980s?

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Jan 8, 202522:58pending

HARDtalk - 2024 Review

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Dec 23, 202422:59pending

Dmytro Kuleba: What are Ukraine's options?

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Dec 20, 202422:58pending

Marty Baron: Is mainstream media in terminal decline?

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Dec 18, 202422:57pending

Terumi Tanaka: Is nuclear war unthinkable?

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Dec 13, 202422:57pending

Mark Alford: Is America ready for Trump 2.0?

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Dec 6, 202422:57pending

Arab Barghouthi: Will his father shape Palestinians' future?

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Dec 5, 202422:58pending

Peter Boehringer: Is Germany's far right in a powerful position?

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Dec 4, 202422:58pending

Barbara Taylor Bradford: A woman of substance

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Dec 2, 202422:58pending

Liz Carr: The UK's assisted dying debate

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Nov 28, 202422:58pending

Aleksandar Vučić: Is Serbia looking to the West or Russia and China?

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Nov 25, 202422:58pending

Masoumeh Ebtekar: Is Iran's leadership in danger of losing its grip?

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Nov 19, 202423:01pending

Paddy Hill: Rebuilding after a miscarriage of justice

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Nov 18, 202422:58pending

Sir Steve McQueen: The power of film

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Nov 15, 202422:57pending

Farah Nabulsi: Challenging imbalance in value of human life

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Nov 13, 202422:56pending

Edmund Bartlett: Does Jamaica have a security problem?

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Nov 11, 202422:57pending

Jason Jones: How can you change cultural attitudes?

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Nov 8, 202422:58pending

Andrei Kelin: Is Vladimir Putin reshaping geopolitics?

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Nov 4, 202422:58pending

Fred Fleitz: What would Donald Trump's foreign policy look like?

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Nov 1, 202422:56pending

Diane Foley: Bringing detained Americans home

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Oct 30, 202422:57pending

Chris Murphy: Is Kamala Harris a candidate for change?

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Oct 28, 202422:58pending

John Bolton: Is America too divided to offer global leadership?

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Oct 23, 202422:58pending

Frank Skinner: What unites his many sides?

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Oct 21, 202422:57pending

Seyed Hossein Mousavian: How vulnerable is Iran?

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Oct 17, 202422:59pending

Ali Abbasi: Is censorship a growing cross-cultural problem?

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Oct 16, 202422:57pending

Marietje Schaake: Is Silicon Valley too powerful?

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Oct 14, 202422:57pending

Danny Danon: Can force alone deliver security for Israel?

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Oct 10, 202422:58pending
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