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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 BBC, our journalists interview amazing people every single day. And on The Interview, we bring them to you. It’s your one-stop-shop to th...

Aly Raisman: Are gold medals put above athletes' wellbeing?

23 mins; August 16, 2021

Getachew Reda: What is the endgame for Tigray's rebels?

23 mins; August 13, 2021

Daryl Davis: Reaching out to the KKK

23 mins; August 11, 2021

Hamid Mir: Is Pakistan a safe place for journalists?

23 mins; August 09, 2021

Sir Andrew Pollard: The war on Covid-19

23 mins; August 05, 2021

RoseAnne Archibald: Uncovering Canada's dark past

23 mins; August 03, 2021

Sir Hilary Beckles: Reparations for slavery

23 mins; August 01, 2021

Lazarus Chakwera: President of Malawi

23 mins; July 29, 2021

Péter Szijjártó: Is Hungary undermining European values?

23 mins; July 27, 2021

Hamdullah Mohib: Can the Afghan government hold out against the Taliban?

23 mins; July 26, 2021

Fikile Mbalula: Is South Africa's government being confronted with its own failure?

23 mins; July 22, 2021

Laurent Lamothe: Can anything be done to end Haiti's suffering?

23 mins; July 21, 2021

Michael Holding: Can sport win its fight against racism?

23 mins; July 19, 2021

Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: Can courage overcome injustice?

23 mins; July 16, 2021

Jess Phillips: What happened to progressive politics?

23 mins; July 13, 2021

Writer Lionel Shriver

23 mins; July 07, 2021

Christian Happi: Can Africa become a world leader in vaccine development?

23 mins; July 05, 2021

Victor Gao: 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party

22 mins; June 30, 2021

Zainab Ahmed: Can Nigeria avert financial meltdown?

23 mins; June 25, 2021

Rawdah Mohamed: Fashion and Muslim women

23 mins; June 23, 2021

REM lead singer Michael Stipe

23 mins; June 21, 2021

Johan Lundgren, EasyJet CEO: Can his business model survive Covid and climate change?

22 mins; June 17, 2021

Jens Stoltenberg: Is the old alliance ready to tackle new threats?

24 mins; June 16, 2021

Ben Rhodes: President Biden's foreign policy challenges

23 mins; June 11, 2021

Michael Rosen: Surviving Covid-19

23 mins; June 07, 2021

Tom Kerridge: Has the pandemic changed the way we eat?

22 mins; June 03, 2021

John Nkengasong: Can Africa meet its vaccination targets?

22 mins; June 01, 2021

Doug Gurr: Advocating for planet Earth

23 mins; May 31, 2021

Fawad Chaudhry: Is Imran Khan reneging on his promises to Pakistan?

23 mins; May 27, 2021

Tito Mboweni: How much has Covid damaged South Africa?

23 mins; May 26, 2021

Ben Hodges: Is America's global power waning?

23 mins; May 24, 2021

Vladimir Chizhov, Russia’s Ambassador to the EU

23 mins; May 20, 2021

Husam Zomlot: Palestine's balance of power

22 mins; May 19, 2021

Kaja Kallas: Do Nato and the EU have Estonia's back?

23 mins; May 16, 2021

Tzipi Hotovely: Israel's ambassador to the UK

22 mins; May 13, 2021

Harry Theoharis: What is in store for European summer holidays?

22 mins; May 11, 2021

Fawzia Koofi: The future for women in Afghanistan

24 mins; May 10, 2021

Mohammed Alyahya: Does Saudi Arabia still have America's support?

23 mins; May 07, 2021

Mohamedou Ould Slahi: What is the Guantanamo legacy?

23 mins; May 04, 2021

Artists Gilbert Prousch & George Passmore

23 mins; May 03, 2021

Dmytro Kuleba: Has the Russian threat to Ukraine receded?

23 mins; April 28, 2021

Sir Peter Westmacott: Are we at peak geopolitical risk?

24 mins; April 26, 2021

Navalny aide Vladimir Ashurkov: Is Putin about to eliminate his most dangerous opponent?

24 mins; April 23, 2021

Michael Mann: The new climate war?

22 mins; April 20, 2021

Silvia Foti: When truth trumps family loyalty

23 mins; April 16, 2021

Serj Tankian: System of a Down frontman on activism and music

23 mins; April 13, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga: Are better days coming for Zimbabwe?

23 mins; April 12, 2021

Amrullah Saleh: Is the Afghan peace process running out of road?

23 mins; April 09, 2021

Ken Rogoff: Does Bidenomics make sense?

22 mins; April 06, 2021

Barbara Amiel: What do the super-rich owe the rest of the world?

23 mins; April 05, 2021

Sir Vartan Melkonian: From Beirut street child to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

23 mins; April 01, 2021

Erika Lust: Can porn be feminist?

22 mins; March 30, 2021

Marina Abramović: A remarkable career pushed to the limits

23 mins; March 29, 2021

Jean-Claude Juncker: Is Covid an unprecedented test of EU cohesion?

23 mins; March 25, 2021

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee: Is the concept of ‘one country, two systems’ dead?

23 mins; March 23, 2021

Baroness Minouche Shafik: What do we owe each other?

22 mins; March 22, 2021

Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark?

23 mins; March 18, 2021

Vjosa Osmani: Acting President of Kosovo

23 mins; March 17, 2021

Adar Poonawalla: How to vaccinate the world

22 mins; March 14, 2021

Dr Sasa: Does Myanmar have a democratic future?

23 mins; March 12, 2021

Jewher Ilham: Fears for her Uighur family in China

22 mins; March 10, 2021

Evan McMullin: What next for anti-Trump Republicans?

22 mins; March 08, 2021

Khin Zaw Win: Protests in Myanmar

22 mins; March 04, 2021

Valdis Dombrovskis: Is the EU ready to aggressively defend its interests?

24 mins; March 02, 2021

Harvey Goldsmith: Can live music survive Covid?

22 mins; February 28, 2021

Dr Seth Berkley: How to ensure the whole world gets a Covid vaccine

23 mins; February 25, 2021

Elizabeth Neumann: The battle for the soul of the US Republican Party

22 mins; February 24, 2021

Timothy Snyder: Lessons from history

23 mins; February 22, 2021

Douglas Stuart: Stories of tender souls in tough places

24 mins; February 19, 2021

Yogendra Yadav: Are farmers' protests a defining moment for India?

23 mins; February 17, 2021

Kirill Dmitriev: Russia's Sputnik V a vaccine for humankind?

24 mins; February 15, 2021

Clément Beaune: Is Covid-19 exposing weaknesses in the EU?

22 mins; February 12, 2021

Laurie Santos: Can we learn how to be happy?

22 mins; February 09, 2021

Evan Medeiros: How should Biden approach China?

23 mins; February 08, 2021

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Has Belarus’s revolution stalled?

22 mins; February 04, 2021

Dr Soumya Swaminathan: Is vaccine inequity undermining the fight against Covid?

24 mins; February 02, 2021

Madawi Al-Rasheed: Can the Saudi Crown Prince's authority really be challenged?

24 mins; January 31, 2021

Thomas Byrne: Ireland's twin challenge

24 mins; January 30, 2021

Leonid Volkov: Protests on the streets of Russia

22 mins; January 28, 2021

Yuli Edelstein: Israel's Covid-19 vaccination programme leads the world

23 mins; January 27, 2021

Lina Khan: Can big tech companies be tamed by US antitrust laws?

24 mins; January 21, 2021

Kenneth Chan: Is democracy lost in Hong Kong?

24 mins; January 19, 2021

Tamara Rojo: Ballet in a pandemic

22 mins; January 17, 2021

Alan Dershowitz: Trump's second impeachment

22 mins; January 14, 2021

Virologist Barry Schoub: South Africa's covid situation 'is bleak'

23 mins; January 13, 2021

Alan Rusbridger: Fact v fiction

23 mins; January 10, 2021

Admiral James Stavridis: The aftermath of the capitol riot

22 mins; January 07, 2021

Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?

22 mins; January 05, 2021

Hermann Hauser: Is Europe failing to create tech champions?

24 mins; December 20, 2020

Christopher Ruddy: Is the media amplifying division in America?

23 mins; December 16, 2020

Bernardine Evaristo: Is British culture changing?

22 mins; December 14, 2020

David Beasley of the World Food Programme: Is the world set for new famines?

24 mins; December 11, 2020

Owase Jeelani: Making life and death decisions

23 mins; December 07, 2020

Ishaq Dar: Pakistan's power struggle

23 mins; December 02, 2020

Anthony Gardner: How will Joe Biden handle foreign policy?

22 mins; November 29, 2020

Gedion Timothewos: Is Ethiopia sliding into civil war?

23 mins; November 27, 2020

Jeremy Hunt: Britain's battle with Covid-19

22 mins; November 24, 2020

David Nabarro: How can countries minimise Covid damage?

23 mins; November 23, 2020

Pawel Jablonski: Why is Poland blocking the EU's budget?

24 mins; November 20, 2020

Judit Varga: How far is Hungary prepared to go in its defiance of the EU?

24 mins; November 18, 2020

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