Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVirologist Barry Schoub: South Africa's covid situation 'is bleak'
South Africa is now grappling with a highly transmissible new strain of Covid-19 that is causing international concern. Stephen Sackur interviews Pro…
5 years, 4 months ago
Alan Rusbridger: Fact v fiction
Stephen Sackur interviews Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian and now a member of Facebook’s Oversight Board. The Covid-19 pandemic is a …
5 years, 4 months ago
Admiral James Stavridis: The aftermath of the capitol riot
The Trump inspired insurrection on Capitol Hill failed. But the wounds to America’s body politic are now raw and deep. The President remains Commande…
5 years, 4 months ago
Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?
Stephen Sackur speaks to British epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson, whose early modelling of Covid-19 made him an influential advocate of the lo…
5 years, 4 months ago
Hermann Hauser: Is Europe failing to create tech champions?
The tech sector is fast becoming a battleground where the world’s greatest economic powers, the US and China, are competing for power and influence. …
5 years, 5 months ago
Christopher Ruddy: Is the media amplifying division in America?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Christopher Ruddy, CEO of the conservative Newsmax media group and close personal friend of Donald Trump. His network has tr…
5 years, 5 months ago
Bernardine Evaristo: Is British culture changing?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Bernardine Evaristo, the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. In any society, the voices that are listened to,…
5 years, 5 months ago
David Beasley of the World Food Programme: Is the world set for new famines?
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme, the UN agency dedicated to feeding the hungry and fending off mass starva…
5 years, 5 months ago
Owase Jeelani: Making life and death decisions
Stephen Sackur speaks to the paediatric neurosurgeon Owase Jeelani. Brain surgery carries with it an awesome burden of responsibility. And within neu…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ishaq Dar: Pakistan's power struggle
Imran Khan won power in Pakistan two years ago with a promise to root out corruption and take on the country’s vested interests. So how's it going? R…
5 years, 6 months ago