Podcast Episodes

Jennifer Riria, banking chief: Financial system still excludes women

“Most of Africa is rural, and although urbanisation is taking root now, the systems that deliver financial services to women are still eluding them.”…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Daniel Noboa, Ecuador President: A war on gangs

“This is a war. We will treat it as a war, and first thing that we want is the war to end. We want peace. We want a better life for our people, espec…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Fatima Bio, Sierra Leone first lady: speaking up

“The person who has always been my uncle, and whenever he comes to the house, I'm running to him. He buys me sweets, this is like my uncle. And then …

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuelan opposition leader: I am not bitter

“Our best reply to the regime is that they didn't make us bad people. That we remain focused on our dream of seeing a free Venezuela. I have seen oth…

4 months ago

Yurii Tokar: Russia deployed Kenyans to death zone

“Russians collected all Kenyans and did everything for them to go to the front line, to go to the death zone.”

Waihiga Mwaura speaks to Yurii Tokar th…

4 months ago

Mikhail Ulyanov: rescuing Iran nuclear talks

“It’s outrageous because these nuclear plant facilities were certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as purely peaceful facilities. The i…

4 months ago

Hanan Balkhy, WHO chief for Sudan and Iran: work continues despite conflicts

“During the recent conflict [in Iran], there was a pause, not a full stop or halt of the functions. Once the airspace opened up again, we reprioritiz…

4 months, 1 week ago

Emma Grede, entrepreneur: Success needs trade-offs

“There's this idea that you [can] sail your way to success or have some overnight success or kind of come upon success relatively easily. And that ha…

4 months, 1 week ago

Sam Liang, Otter.ai CEO: AI captures everything

‘The power of AI is that it's able to capture everything, it’s able to try to interpret everyone objectively. Human beings are imperfect in terms o…

4 months, 1 week ago

Robert Brovdi, Ukraine drone commander: Striking inside Russia

“When we only had reconnaissance drones, we learned fast. We began attaching warheads to the drones. Grenades, then homemade munitions that we produc…

4 months, 2 weeks ago