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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…
Episodes
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Wadah Khanfar - Former Director General, Al Jazeera
The satellite TV station Al Jazeera, is credited with giving ordinary Arabs a platform from which to challenge their governments. And day by day it's been…
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Steve McQueen
The British artist and film-maker Steve McQueen - whose new film Shame is about sex addiction - says the condition is very real and is destroying people's…
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Bassma Kodmani
Ten months after the wave of Arab unrest reached Syria, President Assad is still in power. Bloody protests continue and there are fears that the country could…
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Zoltan Kovacs - Hungarian Minister of State for Government Communication
Hungary's centre-right government has galvanized critics at home and abroad with its new controversial constitution. There have been mass protests in the…
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Cheng Siwei - Former Vice Chairman, Standing Committee, NPC, China
This year - 2012 - is the Chinese Year of the Dragon and Chinese workers certainly seem to have fire in their belly. There's growing discontent amongst the…
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Olli Rehn - European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs
Sarah Montague is in Brussels to talk to the man with the unenviable job of finding a way out of Europe's financial crisis. He is Olli Rehn, Europe's…
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Dr Devi Shetty - Indian heart surgeon
Stephen Sackur speaks to a brilliant heart surgeon - veteran of more than 30,000 operations - but his growing international reputation rests less on his…