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In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.

  • 22 minutes 56 seconds
    Farah Nabulsi: Challenging imbalance in value of human life

    Stephen Sackur speaks to British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi. Her latest film, The Teacher, is set in the West Bank and invites audiences to see and feel the Palestinian experience in intimate, human and emotional detail; but is that possible in the post-October 7th climate of war?

    13 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 22 minutes 57 seconds
    Edmund Bartlett: Does Jamaica have a security problem?

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Jamaica's minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett. While the island nation projects itself to the world as a Caribbean success story, its reputation is being tarnished by violent crime, drugs and gang warfare. What will it take to make Jamaica more secure?

    11 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 22 minutes 58 seconds
    Jason Jones: How can you change cultural attitudes?

    Allan Little speaks to the Trinidadian human rights activist Jason Jones. He is campaigning to legalise consensual sex for homosexuals on his native island, and hopes that the case will have repercussions for similar laws in other countries. But will it be enough to change cultural attitudes?

    8 November 2024, 8:30 am
  • 22 minutes 58 seconds
    Andrei Kelin: Is Vladimir Putin reshaping geopolitics?

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia’s ambassador in London, Andrei Kelin. Thanks to the war in Ukraine and allegations of Russian hybrid warfare in Europe and beyond, diplomatic relations between Moscow and the West are poisonous. Is Vladimir Putin right to think he’s reshaping geopolitics?

    4 November 2024, 12:04 am
  • 22 minutes 56 seconds
    Fred Fleitz: What would Donald Trump's foreign policy look like?

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Fred Fleitz, a national security official in Donald Trump’s first administration, tipped for a new foreign policy role if Trump returns to power. If Vice President Kamala Harris represents foreign policy continuity, what would the world get from Trump 2.0?

    1 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 22 minutes 57 seconds
    Diane Foley: Bringing detained Americans home

    Stephen Sackur talks to Diane Foley, whose son James was kidnapped by the Islamic State group and murdered in 2014. She’s spent a decade coming to terms with that and campaigning to get other detained Americans home.

    30 October 2024, 9:00 am
  • 22 minutes 58 seconds
    Chris Murphy: Is Kamala Harris a candidate for change?

    Stephen Sackur is in Washington DC to speak to Democratic Party Senator Chris Murphy. In the final days of an eye-wateringly close presidential election campaign, how can Vice President Kamala Harris convince Americans that she and the Democrats stand for change rather than business as usual?

    28 October 2024, 8:00 am
  • 22 minutes 58 seconds
    John Bolton: Is America too divided to offer global leadership?

    Stephen Sackur is in Washington DC to speak to Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. With the election looming, Bolton calls his former boss a danger to America. But he won’t back Kamala Harris either. Is America too divided to offer global leadership?

    23 October 2024, 7:37 am
  • 22 minutes 57 seconds
    Frank Skinner: What unites his many sides?

    Stephen Sackur speaks to stand-up comedian, and broadcaster Frank Skinner, who also happens to be a writer on poetry, religion and much more. Football and sex were, and are, the staples of much of his humour, but he’s never been a one-trick pony. What unites his many facets?

    21 October 2024, 6:02 am
  • 22 minutes 59 seconds
    Seyed Hossein Mousavian: How vulnerable is Iran?

    Stephen Sackur speaks to former Iranian nuclear negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian. Now in exile in the US, he is an advocate for dialogue between Iran and the West. With Israel poised to strike, having already delivered severe blows to Tehran, how vulnerable is Iran?

    17 October 2024, 2:15 pm
  • 22 minutes 57 seconds
    Ali Abbasi: Is censorship a growing cross-cultural problem?

    Stephen Sackur speaks to the Iranian-Danish film director Ali Abbasi. His new movie The Apprentice, about Donald Trump’s early years in business, has enraged team Trump. He’s also made powerful enemies inside Iran. Is censorship a growing cross-cultural problem?

    16 October 2024, 7:00 am
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