The Interview Episodes Episode guide
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Fatih Birol – Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Is the resilience of fossil fuel supply a cause for celebration, or despair?
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Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist
Is genuine liberation for women possible in the Arab world?
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Ian Thorpe - Australian Swimmer
Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression.
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Alan Moore - Graphic Novelist
Alan Moore - graphic novelist and insurgent explains why is he now becoming disillusioned.
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Philip Glass - Composer
Philip Glass has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
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Brooke Magnanti - Belle du Jour
Belle de Jour aka Dr Brooke Magnanti is calling for prostitution to be decriminalised.
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Lewis Moody - Former England Rugby Captain
Ex-England rugby captain Lewis Moody talks about his battle with bowel disease
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Sir Geoffrey Nice QC - Barrister
Stephen Sackur talks to Sir Geoffrey Nice who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milosević
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Naguib Sawiris – Businessman and Founder, Free Egyptians Party
Coptic Christian, billionaire, businessman and politician on Egypt's polarisation
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Teodoro Obiang - President, Equatorial Guinea
When will change come to this oil-rich country, where poverty and corruption are rife?
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Sima Samar – Chairperson, Afghan Human Rights Commission
Does Sima Samar have the right strategy to win greater freedoms for Afghan women?
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Leila Shahid – Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the EU
Is the game up for Palestine's old guard moderates?
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Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government
Falkland Islanders if they want to remain a British overseas territory. Should they agree?
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José Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission
Is Europe's economic crisis a threat to the continent's peace?
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Carlos Ghosn - CEO of Renault-Nissan
Can Carlos Ghosn turn around the fortunes of Renault as he has done for Nissan?
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Mike Newell - film director
Why did Mike Newell choose to make a film of the classic Dickens novel Great Expectations?
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Peter Voser - CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
With economies so thirsty for energy - but at what cost?
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Jeh Johnson- General Counsel, US Department of Defense
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the US Defense Department.
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Michael Woodford - Former CEO, Olympus
Zeinab Badawi speaks to British businessman Michael Woodford, former CEO of Olympus.
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Frans Baleni - General Secretary, South African National Union of Mineworkers
Shaun Ley asks about the consequences of the 'Marikana massacre' in South Africa.
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Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International
Doesn’t Greenpeace need a new bold vision to make an impact – and if so – what is it?
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Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister of Syria
Why did Riad Hijab defect from the regime of President Bashar al Assad?
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Vandana Shiva, environmentalist
Could we really end poverty by returning to old fashioned ways of farming?
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James Cracknell - former Olympic rower
What resources has Olympic rower James Cracknell needed to endure serious brain damage?
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Radoslaw Sikorski - Foreign Minister of Poland
Do Poles really want to cede their hard won sovereignty to Brussels and Berlin?
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Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression.
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Leonid Kozhara - Foreign Policy Advisor to the Ukrainian President
Tim Franks asks whether Ukraine has turned its back on the on the offer of EU membership.
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Hisham Qandil - Prime Minister, Egypt
Stephen Sackur talks to Egypt's prime minister Hisham Qandil.
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Andreas Mavroyiannis, Deputy Minister for European Affairs for Cyprus
Will the award of the Nobel Peace Prize boost confidence in the EU?
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Bob Shrum, Democratic Party Consultant and Campaign Strategist
Why is President Obama struggling to rekindle the enthusiasm he generated four years ago?