Podcast Episodes

Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy: A new era of global power politics

“Regardless of whether it's Trump or anybody else in the White House, we should expect something quite significant to be going on in terms of the Uni…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Nicholas Opiyo, human rights lawyer: Ugandans want change

‘All they have seen is a 40-year rule that has resulted in high unemployment rates, poor services, and an increased violation of human rights. This y…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Chloé Zhao, director: I was an outsider

‘It's so far from your reality because I didn't know anybody and I was an immigrant’

Anita Rani speaks to the Beijing-born director Chloé Zhao about h…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General: the threat to international law from power

“There are those that believe the power of law should be replaced by the law of power”

Anna Foster speaks to Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of th…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Karol Nawrocki, Polish President: Europe has lost its way

‘Europe for a number of years was involved in not so important things, in ideological issues such as Green Deal for instance, climate policy, migrati…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: US military action is a real threat

I do believe US military action is a real threat, and the prospect of removing it depends on the ongoing conversations.

The BBC’s South America corr…

8 months ago

Baroness Arminka Helic: Preventing sexual violence in war

We are in a new era where human rights have been replaced by trade and big businesses and they have almost entirely depleted our ability to show huma…

8 months ago

Gabriel Zuchtreigel, Director of Pompeii: archaeology is the most democratic form of history

‘Archaeology has this focus on material evidence so it's in a way more democratic, because texts are often written by the powerful and represent thei…

8 months ago

Mustafa Suleyman, Artificial Intelligence pioneer: people should be healthily afraid of AI

'As somebody who’s deeply techno-optimistic, I invite people to be also healthily afraid and sceptical’

BBC presenter Amol Rajan speaks to the British…

8 months, 1 week ago

Nigel Casey, UK ambassador to Russia: no communication is extremely dangerous

‘The embassies in our two countries really are the main remaining thread on which our relationship hangs’

Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Russia editor, sp…

8 months, 1 week ago