Mariana Mazzucato: The space race and our economic futures

An influential economist discusses what drives innovation

• 23 mins

Isabel Allende: What does South America's future hold?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed Chilean author

• 23 mins

Bassem Youssef: Do we expect too much from satire?

Stephen Sackur talks to a satirist who made his name during Egypt's popular uprising

• 23 mins

Gabrielius Landsbergis: Tension in Eastern Europe

Stephen Sackur speaks to the foreign minister of Lithuania

• 23 mins

Marine Le Pen: France's future president?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the longtime leader of the French far right

• 23 mins

George Takei, Actor

Stephen Sackur interviews actor George Takei

• 23 mins

Michael McCaul: Is Biden up to facing off with Putin?

Michael McCaul accuses President Biden of not standing up to Mr Putin in Ukraine

• 23 mins

Kiril Petkov: Is Bulgaria ready to stand up to Russia?

Stephen Sackur interviews the Prime Minister of Bulgaria

• 23 mins

Yuri Vitrenko: Russia, Ukraine and Europe's energy

Stephen Sackur speaks to the CEO of Naftogaz, Ukraine's biggest energy company

• 23 mins

Jamie Raskin, Democrat Congressman, House Committe to Investigative January 6th Attack

Stephen Sackur speaks to Jamie Raskin, US Congressman (Dem)

• 23 mins

Ingrid Betancourt: Can Colombia defeat corruption?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Colombian presidential candidate

• 23 mins

Leonid Volkov: How strong is Putin's grip on Russia?

How should the West respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

• 23 mins

Iván Fischer: The power and joy of music

Stephen Sackur speaks to the renowned Hungarian conductor and composer

• 23 mins

David Miliband: President of the International Rescue Committee

Is the West doing enough in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?

• 23 mins

Andrey Kurkov: Putin's attack on Ukraine's identity

Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Ukraine's most celebrated novelists

• 23 mins

David Miliband: Is the West doing enough to respond to Putin's invasion?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the International Rescue Committee

• 23 mins

Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Former Ukrainian PM

Stephen Sackur speaks to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

• 22 mins

Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Can Ukraine win this war?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's former prime minister

• 23 mins

Michael Carpenter: Is this a new age of conflict?

Will Russia's invasion of Ukraine lead to a new, long-term cold war?

• 23 mins

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: Is the fate of Belarus tied to the fate of Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled leader of Belarus's opposition

• 23 mins

Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

• 23 mins

Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the prime minister of Norway

• 23 mins

Tobias Ellwood: How should the West stand up to Putin?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee

• 23 mins

PM Jonas Gahr Støre: Can Norway help ease Europe's dependency on Russian energy?

Norway is one of the world’s biggest oil and gas exporters and could supply Europe

• 23 mins

Kadri Simson: Putin and Europe's energy

Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU Commissioner for Energy

• 23 mins

Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer

Stephen Sackur speaks to Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer

• 23 mins

Francis Fukuyama: The end of the end of history?

Sarah Montague speaks to the renowned political scientist

• 23 mins

Ilya Ponomarev: A former Russian MP on fighting Putin

Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to an ex-Russian MP who is fighting in Ukraine - against Russia

• 23 mins

Mairead McGuinness: How far will the EU go to support Kyiv?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU commissioner for financial services

• 23 mins

Maria Butina: What is Russia achieving in Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a pro-Putin member of Russia’s state Duma

• 23 mins

Claude Joseph: Can Haiti be saved?

What will it take to resolve the Caribbean nation's crises?

• 23 mins

Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's Foreign Minister as evidence of atrocities emerges

• 23 mins

Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'

Stephen Sackur speaks to sanctioned F1 Driver Nikita Mazepin.

• 23 mins

Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin’s strategy be a template for China to follow?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Taipei’s representative to the EU

• 23 mins

Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?

Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled Russian economist

• 23 mins

Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to one of Kenya’s most ground-breaking cultural figures

• 23 mins

Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?

Stephen Sackur talks to one of the UK's most popular comedians

• 23 mins

Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail

The story of an Australian academic who was released from an Iranian jail in 2020

• 23 mins

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin

Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled Russian businessman

• 23 mins

Robin Hanbury-Tenison: Have his efforts to protect indigenous people made a difference?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison

• 23 mins

Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline

A Ukrainian musician who has exchanged stadium gigs for a military uniform

• 23 mins

Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the General Secretary of the UK’s Trades Union Congress

• 23 mins

Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia

Stephen Sackur interviews Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia

• 23 mins

Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia

Stephen Sackur speaks to the financier and anti-Putin campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act

• 23 mins

Zoltán Kovács: Whose side is Hungary really on?

Zoltán Kovács, Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication on Russia

• 23 mins

Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Jim Green, former chief scientist at Nasa

• 23 mins

Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee

• 23 mins

Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?

Victoria Spartz, Republican Congresswoman is an ardent advocate of US support for Kyiv

• 23 mins

Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the CEO of Save the Children International

• 23 mins

Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the wife of the Wikileaks founder

• 23 mins

Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?

Stephen Sackur speaks to one of America's biggest Christian preachers

• 23 mins

Iván Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?

Does the Duque Presidency signal the conclusive failure of Colombia’s ruling elite?

• 23 mins

Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the secretary general of Nato

• 23 mins

Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of Uruguay

• 23 mins

Danica Roem: America's culture wars

Stephen Sackur speaks to America’s first transgender state lawmaker

• 23 mins

Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history

Stephen Sackur speaks to an internationally renowned Harvard historian

• 23 mins

Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker

Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?

• 23 mins

Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?

Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled female politician

• 23 mins

Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's ambassador to the UN

• 23 mins

Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the European Space Agency

• 23 mins

Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Moldova's foreign minister and deputy prime minister

• 23 mins

Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy PM for European integration

• 23 mins

Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin

Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic

• 23 mins

João Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU’s Ambassador to the UK

• 23 mins

Henry Huiyao Wang: Is China exposing its vulnerabilities?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a China thinktank founder and sometime government adviser

• 23 mins

K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to choose between the US and China?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Singapore’s minister of home affairs

• 23 mins

Lord Patten: Were promises to Hong Kong broken?

Sarah Montague speaks to the former governor of Hong Kong

• 23 mins

Steve Thompson: Rugby's traumatic legacy

Stephen Sackur speaks to a former rugby player living with early-onset dementia

• 23 mins

Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?

Nury Turkel is leading the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs

• 23 mins

Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds

An influential writer argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti-racist

• 23 mins

Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil

• 23 mins

Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chief justice of Ethiopia's Supreme Court

• 23 mins

Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?

Sarah Montague speaks to Omah Lay, Nigerian Afrobeats Musician

• 23 mins

Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?

An interview with the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

• 23 mins

Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?

An interview with the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

• 23 mins

Marjorie Dannenfelser: The future of the anti-abortion movement

Stephen Sackur interviews the head of a leading US anti-abortion organisation

• 23 mins

Fatih Birol: Could short-term panic derail the clean energy transition?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the International Energy Agency.

• 23 mins

Julius Malema: Is South Africa on the brink of chaos?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters

• 23 mins

The Singh Twins: Mixing art and politics

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed contemporary British artists

• 23 mins

Gregory Doran: Why does Shakespeare still captivate us?

Stephen Sackur interviews the artistic director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company

• 23 mins

Albert Woodfox: Freedom after a life inside

In 2019, Stephen Sackur spoke to the former member of the Black Panther movement

• 23 mins

Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former First Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh.

• 23 mins

Shon Faye: The transgender issue

Stephen Sackur interviews author and journalist Shon Faye

• 23 mins

George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear

Stephen Sackur interviews writer and environmental activist George Monbiot.

• 23 mins

Krišjānis Kariņš: Is Latvia still vulnerable?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the prime minister of Latvia

• 23 mins

Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?

Stephen Sackur interviews renowned artist Sir Peter Blake.

• 23 mins

Ukraine war at six months - special

Six months on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine we reflect on interviews with key players

• 23 mins

Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent

• 23 mins

Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?

Stephen Sackur talks to the former chief rabbi of Moscow

• 23 mins

Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers

How do you treat those responsible for the most heinous of crimes?

• 23 mins

Tova Friedman: Learning from history

Stephen Sackur speaks to a survivor of the Holocaust

• 23 mins

Lindsey Graham: Trump and the midterms

Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Donald Trump's most forceful defenders in the US Senate

• 23 mins

Enrico Letta: Is Italy set to choose a far-right government?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party

• 23 mins

Vadym Prystaiko: Can Ukraine count on its allies?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's ambassador to the UK

• 23 mins

Maria Pevchikh: Where does Russia's anti-Putin movement go from here?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a leading member of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation

• 23 mins

Alexei Ratmansky: Has ballet become a battleground?

Stephen Sackur interviews a world-renowned choreographer

• 23 mins

William Kentridge: Making art from South Africa's past

A 2020 interview with the South African artist

• 23 mins

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze: Can Putin’s threats undermine support for Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s EU Integration Committee

• 23 mins

Reverend Richard Coles: Living with grief

How a priest and broadcaster faced the shock of his husband's death

• 23 mins