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The Interview — 1911 episodes
Yurii Tokar: Russia deployed Kenyans to death zone
Mikhail Ulyanov: Rescuing Iran nuclear talks
Hanan Balkhy, WHO chief for Sudan and Iran: work continues despite conflicts
Emma Grede, entrepreneur: Success needs trade-offs
Sam Liang, Otter.ai CEO: AI captures everything
Robert Brovdi, Ukraine drone commander: Striking inside Russia
SungAh Lee, International Organisation for Migration: Sudan needs us
Ringo Starr, musician: I never play music alone
Isaac Larian, entrepreneur: Failure is the foundation for success
Dr Kalema-Zikusoka, wildlife vet: Saving gorillas
Arlo Parks, singer-songwriter: I want to make music that lasts
The Epstein survivors speak
EJohn Healey, UK Defence Secretary: Russia’s covert operations
Mark Suzman, Gates Foundation: Countries should be embarrassed
Simukai Chigudu, African politics professor: I support reparations
Parmy Olson, AI expert: Who controls the future?
Eric Idle, comedian: Nothing is off limits in comedy
Jeremy Hansen, astronaut: Moon mission shows best of humanity
Winnie Byanyima, head of UNAids: I am somebody who fights for social justice and gender equality
Mohammed Idris, Nigeria’s Information Minister: Stopping militant attacks
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, head of the WTO: What is going on in the Middle East will have a significant impact on trade
Joy Phumaphi, African Leaders Malaria Alliance: Malaria is an all of society challenge
Nadia Calviño, EIB President: Can Europe compete?
Ali Bahreini, Iran’s UN Ambassador: No surrender
Alexander Stubb, President of Finland: We live in a world of disorder
Tracey Emin, artist: I’ve been given a second chance
Vincent Clerc, CEO of Maersk: The two sides of war
Karim Beguir, co-founder of InstaDeep: People are too gloomy about AI
Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to UN: Closing USAID was soft power suicide
Julia Gillard, former Australian PM: The backsliding of gender equality
Guillermo del Toro, director: I only make movies for art
Dr Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, UN deputy director for women: Africa must prioritise water over war
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine: We will not lose this war
Boris Johnson and Sir Tony Radakin: Ukrainians are heroes
José Andrés, chef and humanitarian: Food is a human right
Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister: US giving conflicting signals
Gisèle Pelicot: Shame must be carried by the accused, not the victims
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist: We're at a tipping point for kids and technology
Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury: Working in partnership with others
Azar Nafisi, author: Iranians are fighting for their freedom
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South African health minister: The fight against HIV/AIDS continues.
Henrique Capriles, Venezuelan opposition leader: What comes next for Venezuela?
Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner: Keep kids away from social media until they are ready
Hind Kabawat, Syrian Minister: It is hard to be the only woman, I feel lonely
Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv: We're fighting to survive
Helen Thompson, professor of political economy: A new era of global power politics
Nicholas Opiyo, human rights lawyer: Ugandans want change
Chloé Zhao, director: I was an outsider
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General: The threat to international law from power
Karol Nawrocki, Polish President: Europe has lost its way
Gustavo Petro, Colombian President: US military action is a real threat
Arminka Helic, campaigner against sexual violence in war: Rape is used as part of genocide
Gabriel Zuchtreigel, Director of Pompeii: Archaeology is the most democratic form of history
Mustafa Suleyman, Artificial Intelligence pioneer: People should be healthily afraid of AI
Nigel Casey, UK ambassador to Russia: No communication is extremely dangerous
Diego Calva, actor: Latin America is more than violence, salsa music and food
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Arden Cho, actor: I was born in America, but wasn’t seen as American
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador: Bringing digital diplomacy to the world
Jordan Bardella, National Rally leader: France must control immigration
Jacinda Ardern, former New Zealand PM: World leaders need empathy
María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader: Our fight for freedom is a fight for peace
Dr. Badr Abdelatty, Egyptian Foreign Minister: We’re pushing hard to end Sudan conflict
Patti Smith, musician: Artists have a responsibility to speak up
Melanie Perkins, Canva CEO: From information to imagination
Anika Wells, Communications Minister: Australia’s social media ban
Shabana Mahmood, British Home Secretary: Do not make that boat crossing
Maria Ressa, freedom of speech campaigner: The information apocalypse is threatening democracy
Sir Nick Clegg, former global affairs chief at Meta: Social media’s power paradox
Twinkle Khanna, author: Indian women’s aspirations have changed
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google: AI prone to errors
Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor: I turn turmoil into energy
Noura Erakat, Palestinian-American humans rights lawyer: The law has failed Palestinians
Brandi Carlile, singer-songwriter: I believe in the separation of church and state
Maria Alyokhina, Russian punk activist: The price of political art was prison
Sir Salman Rushdie, author: Writing fiction in a time of lies
Nhial Deng Nhial, South Sudanese politician: South Sudan is being run down
Sir Bradley Wiggins, cyclist: I couldn’t see hope or joy
Edward Enninful, former editor of British Vogue: Fashion has to be more inclusive
Sir Philip Pullman, author: Fantasy can be unsatisfactory
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder: We’re living in an era of a massive lowering of trust
Kamala Harris, former US Vice President: I am not done
David Grossman, author: Isolating Israel is not the answer
Dr Vivek Murthy, former US Surgeon General: Loneliness is public health risk
Jamie Dimon, head of US bank JP Morgan Chase: I am worried about the global economy
Malala Yousafzai, global education campaigner: I did not know who I was
Duma Boko, President of Botswana: The world will listen to Africa
Bjorn Borg, tennis champion: I’ve always been a private person
Chris Wright, US Energy Secretary: The problem with climate alarmism
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia : Somalia has a serious security challenge
Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General: Peace as a word is losing its value
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President: I have no relationship with President Trump
Moazzam Malik, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK: Working on the ground in Gaza
Stevie Wonder, musician: Songs stay with you forever
Mike Pence, former US Vice President: US will soon get deserving government
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist: Obsession is a driver
Francis Fukuyama, political economist: America’s Putin-esque direction
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia: How to rebuild a country
Pete Townshend, musician: Farewell tour doesn’t mean the end
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor: Music has the power to unite
Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat : Algorithms don’t drive the truth
Giuseppe Lavazza, CEO of Lavazza: Coffee is a big responsibility
Captain Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander: We were going to survive
Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank: The world must focus on creating jobs
Pieter Engelbrecht, CEO of Shoprite: We have a purpose to help people survive
John Denton, Secretary-General of the ICC: Uncertainty is harming business
Petr Pavel, Czech President: Russia cannot stand economic pressure
John Kerry, Former US Secretary of State: We face a special challenge in America
Sergei Tikhanovsky, Belarussian opposition activist: Belarus will be free
Guli Francis-Dehqani, Church of England Bishop: We were outsiders
Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor: Europe was free-riding on US
Donald Trump, US President: I’m disappointed with Putin
Catherine Corless, Irish historian: I’m going to be a voice for these children
Keith Siegel, freed Israeli hostage: I pray for peace
Sir Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister: The UK needs strong international relationships
Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister: Regime change is a futile exercise
Philippe Kehren, CEO of multinational Solvay: Reducing reliance on China’s rare earth metals
Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space: A new era of defence readiness
Martina Navratilova, tennis champion: Women are judged by a different metric to men
Muhammad Yunus: We dream of creating a new Bangladesh
Yoshua Bengio: AI’s risks must be acknowledged
Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel: ‘Hamas isn't interested in ending the war’
Bill Gates: The importance of aid and philanthropy
Carsten Breuer, the German chief of defence: Nato faces "very serious threat" from Russia
Tom Fletcher, UN Humanitarian Chief: Is the world doing enough to get aid into Gaza?
Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services - what is the future of big tech?
Surviving Syria’s sectarian violence
Dovilė Šakalienė, Defence Minister of Lithuania: Uncertain times for Europe
Doris Salcedo, Colombian artist - giving voice to victims of violence
Radosław Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland: Dealing with the growing threat from Russia
Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister - are the lessons of WW2 being forgotten?
Joe Biden: Can the world still rely on America?
Tidjane Thiam, Ivory Coast opposition leader - can he run for president?
Prince Harry: Is his safety at risk?
Emi Mahmoud, poet: Has the world abandoned Sudan?
Kurt Volker, former US diplomat: Decoding Trump, the second time around
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, billionaire businessman: Making Manchester United great, again
Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition politician: From the streets to state?
Lady Gaga, music legend and film star: Inside the chaos
Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank: Mission accomplished?
David van Weel, Dutch Minister of Justice: Preparing for disaster
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, President of Namibia: What challenges does she face?
Daniel Noboa, President of Ecuador: Can Ecuador find peace?
Justin Welby, former Archbishop of Canterbury: I forgive serial abuser John Smyth
Introducing The Interview podcast
HARDtalk: Coda
HARDtalk: The early years review
Reid Hoffman: Should we trust the tech elite?
Allen Ault: Opposing the death penalty
Christine Lagarde: Can Europe's economy withstand Trump 2.0?
Dominique de Villepin: Can Europe become a superpower in its own right?
Son of Hans Frank, Governor General of Nazi Occupied Poland - Niklas Frank
Roger Carstens: Do hostage deals risk making problems worse?
Volker Türk: Are we sleepwalking into a dystopian future?
Badiucao: Art, power and China
Lord Sumption: Is liberal democracy in big trouble?
Victoria Spartz: Has Donald Trump switched sides on Ukraine?
N. Ram: Freedom of expression in India
Laila Soueif and Sanaa Seif: Hunger for freedom
Jake Sullivan: The legacy of the Biden White House
Tom Fletcher: What is the impact of US foreign aid cuts?
Omar Abdullah: Can he bring peace to Jammu and Kashmir?
Dhananjaya Chandrachud: Justice and the rule of law
Hardeep Singh Puri: India's big ambitions
Basem Naim: Can Gaza find long-term peace?
Mouaz Moustafa: Will Syrians get justice?
Ehud Olmert: This war must end now
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Is Putin vulnerable?
Asif Kapadia: Pushing the boundaries of film-making
Alice Edwards: Is it possible to eradicate torture?
Alan Hollinghurst: How has Britain changed since the 1980s?
HARDtalk - 2024 Review
Dmytro Kuleba: What are Ukraine's options?
Marty Baron: Is mainstream media in terminal decline?
Terumi Tanaka: Is nuclear war unthinkable?
Mark Alford: Is America ready for Trump 2.0?
Arab Barghouthi: Will his father shape Palestinians' future?
Peter Boehringer: Is Germany's far right in a powerful position?
Barbara Taylor Bradford: A woman of substance
Liz Carr: The UK's assisted dying debate
Aleksandar Vučić: Is Serbia looking to the West or Russia and China?
Masoumeh Ebtekar: Is Iran's leadership in danger of losing its grip?
Paddy Hill: Rebuilding after a miscarriage of justice
Sir Steve McQueen: The power of film
Farah Nabulsi: Challenging imbalance in value of human life
Edmund Bartlett: Does Jamaica have a security problem?
Jason Jones: How can you change cultural attitudes?
Andrei Kelin: Is Vladimir Putin reshaping geopolitics?
Fred Fleitz: What would Donald Trump's foreign policy look like?
Diane Foley: Bringing detained Americans home
Chris Murphy: Is Kamala Harris a candidate for change?
John Bolton: Is America too divided to offer global leadership?
Frank Skinner: What unites his many sides?
Seyed Hossein Mousavian: How vulnerable is Iran?
Ali Abbasi: Is censorship a growing cross-cultural problem?
Marietje Schaake: Is Silicon Valley too powerful?
Danny Danon: Can force alone deliver security for Israel?
Tamir Pardo: Does Israel's greatest threat come from within?
Kim Aris: The fate of Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar
Imaan Mazari-Hazir: Seeking justice for Pakistan's disappeared
María Corina Machado: Defending democracy in Venezuela
Amin Salam: Can all-out war be averted in Lebanon?
Ingrid Newkirk: Will humans ever go animal-free?
Martin Griffiths: Can the humanitarian system survive?
Oliviero Toscani: Photography with a social conscience
Philippe Lazzarini: Is UNRWA's mission in Gaza impossible?
James Earl Jones: An incredible journey
Balázs Orbán: Has Hungary's government created a template for far-right movements?
Senator Lindsey Graham: Will Trump return to the White House?
Fawzia Koofi: Women's rights in Afghanistan
Rev Andrey Kordochkin: Putin and the Church
Motaz Azaiza: Photographing Gaza
Andris Sprūds: Is Latvia on a war footing?
Neil Lawrence: Being human in the age of the machine
Nicola Procaccini: How has hard-right rule changed Italy?
Olha Stefanishyna: Does Ukraine's Russia offensive make sense?
Karuna Nundy: Human rights and justice in India
Shannon Watts: Will the votes of white women swing the Trump-Harris race?
Pavel Latushka: Can change in Belarus only come with change in Moscow?
Ian Goldin: Is migration a drag or a driver of progress?
Chris Ruddy: Is Trump's team worried?
Garry Conille: What can he do for Haiti?
The whistleblowers
Ohad Tal: Is Israel gearing up for a multi-front war?
Adam Smith: Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?
Syed Zafar Islam: Will Narendra Modi change course?
Taro Kono: Can Japan reboot itself for the 21st Century?
Maria Corina Machado: Can Venezuela's fortunes change?
Oliver McTernan: Is peace in the Middle East an impossible dream?
Maria Butina: Is time on Russia's side?
Laurie Bristow: The West's failure in Afghanistan
Ilya Ponomarev: How significant is Russian resistance to Putin?
Asma Khan: Can cooking change the world?
Husam Zomlot: Is diplomacy dead in the Israel-Gaza conflict?
Anne Enright: Changing Ireland
Fabrice Leggeri: What would a far-right victory mean for France?
Sachin Pilot: Is India heading for consensus or chaos?
Dmytro Kuleba: Ukraine war at critical juncture
Mathieu Kassovitz: Where is France going?
Akinwumi Adesina: Africa rising?
Jean-Noël Barrot: A snap election in France
Eyal Weizman: The politics of architecture
Mickey Bergman: What difference do hostage negotiators make?
R. Derek Black: Renouncing white nationalism
Mohammad Shtayyeh: Will the Palestinian Authority work with Hamas?
Stephen J Shaw: Are falling birth rates a crisis for humanity?
Espen Barth Eide: Why will Norway recognise a Palestinian state?
Jim Skea: Are humans bungling our chance to avert disaster?
Gillian Slovo: Has her writing exorcised demons?
Alexander Stubb: Has Nato membership left Finland stronger?
Sir Ron Dennis: The need for speed
Bill Blair: Canada's defence strategy
Gabrielius Landsbergis: Does Europe back Lithuania?
Jonathan Haidt: Should we be worried about children having smartphones?
Mihai Popșoi: Is Moldova the new Russian battleground?
Paul Auster: 'We are divided in ways we have never seen before'
Ami Ayalon: Is Israel fighting an unwinnable war?
Amin Salam: Can Lebanon's government avert catastrophe?
Joan Donoghue: Has the ICJ ruling changed anything in Gaza?
Daniel Dennett: Philosophy and atheism
Richard Haass: How should the US respond to global risks?
Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Could Ukraine lose?
Danny Danon: Will Israel listen to its allies?
Eddie Marsan: Do the arts neglect working-class people?
Paul Caruana Galizia: Can his family get justice?
Job Sikhala: Is change possible in Zimbabwe?
Humza Yousaf: Is the SNP's supremacy in Scotland under threat?
Naomi Alderman: Power and technology
Tom Shakespeare: Redefining disability
Lila Rose: Could abortion be banned in the entire US?
Mohamed Irfaan Ali: Is oil a blessing or a curse for Guyana?
On the road in Guyana
Judith Butler: Gender and identity
Luis Abinader: Will the Dominican Republic help Haiti?
Chris Mullin: Have lessons been learned from the Birmingham Six injustice?
Jan Egeland: Is the international community failing to protect the most vulnerable?
Claude Joseph: Can anything save Haiti?
Leonid Volkov: Is the anti-Putin movement out of options?
Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
Riyad Mansour: Why are the diplomats failing?
Sathnam Sanghera: Britain's imperial legacies
Salome Zourabichvili: Where does Georgia's destiny lie?
Ciarán Hinds: Is Northern Ireland a creative powerhouse?
Jens Stoltenberg: Is Russia really preparing for a war with Nato?
HARDtalk: Defying Putin
Nikolai Denkov: Is Bulgaria a weak link in Europe's security?
Alexey Navalny: The interview
Bassem Youssef: Can laughter ever provoke political change?
Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya: Does Ukraine feel betrayed?
Cornel West: Could enough votes taken from Joe Biden help Donald Trump get elected?
Vassily Nebenzia: Is Russia influencing global opinions?
José Ramos-Horta: Peace and reconciliation
Abdalla Hamdok: Can Sudan find peace?
Ronald Lamola: Is South Africa's genocide case against Israel a geo-political game changer?
Jasvinder Sanghera: Abuse and the Church of England
Radek Sikorski: Will Poland's new government unite or divide the country?
Naomi Alderman: Apocalypse soon?
Regina Ip: What is Hong Kong's future?
Mark Regev: Is Israel serving its own best interests?
Mohammad Marandi: Is Middle East conflict what Iran really wants?
Sir Nicholas Winton: A Holocaust hero
Alicia Kearns: How much will 2024 test the West?
Stephen Cave: Should we want to live forever?
Aida Touma-Sliman: What does war mean for Israel's Arab population?
Past notes
2023 in review
Naftali Bennett: Has Israel responded unwisely?
Izzeldin Abuelaish: Can Palestinians still believe in forgiveness and peace?
Sandra Day O'Connor: The first female US Supreme Court judge
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza: What Rwandans think of the UK migrant transfer deal
Fatih Birol: Is the global energy transition veering off course?
Jasem Albudaiwi: Could the Gulf states be destabilised by the conflict in Gaza?
Philippe Lazzarini: Could Gaza become unliveable?
Simcha Rothman: Is violence in Israel's best interests?
Cardinal Peter Turkson: Is the Catholic Church at a crossroads?
Jonna Mendez: Does the world still need spies?
Michel Roux: Is the business of fine food turning sour?
Chris Coons: Is team Biden in trouble?
Mark Alford: Do US Republicans have a winning formula?
Mervyn King: Global growth and inflation
Fiona Hill: Are overseas wars exposing US weaknesses?
Mustafa Barghouti: What next for the Palestinian people?
Carlo Rovelli: Life, the universe and white holes
Abdallah Bou Habib: Could Lebanon get dragged into war with Israel by Hezbollah?
Sir Lindsay Hoyle: Can the Speaker ensure parliament better serves the people?
Jakov Milatović: President of Montenegro
Lubaina Himid: Race, culture and modern Britain
Aiden Aslin: Captured, tortured and swapped by Russia
Adam Smith: How does the US navigate its multiple interests?
Husam Zomlot: Is Gaza on the brink of a humanitarian crisis?
Olha Stefanishyna: How solid is the West’s support for Kyiv?
Ehud Barak: Where will the Middle East conflict end?
Danny Danon: A new Middle East war
Lord Deben: Is short-term politics undermining climate action?
Paolo Gentiloni: Are divisions costing the EU on the global stage?
Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar: Can he steer Pakistan through political turmoil?
Martin Griffiths: Is the UN system failing those in greatest need?
Kaja Kallas: Is Russia a threat to Estonia?
Shaharzad Akbar: How should the world respond to Afghanistan's crisis?
Caroline Lucas: Parliamentary politics or direct action?
Yuval Noah Harari: Are humans losing the ability to trust and co-operate?
Vladimir Milov: Could Putin outlast his enemies?
Mustafa Suleyman: How can AI be safely developed?
Tobias Billström: Controversy in Sweden
Lindsey Graham: Does Trump's comeback spell trouble for America?
Nancy Pelosi: American power abroad
Nureldin Satti: The war in Sudan
Peter Boehringer: Is the AfD a threat to German stability?
Feargal Sharkey: Britain's dirty water problem
Dominic Lee: Is China scaring investors away from Hong Kong?
Jasvinder Sanghera: Abuse and the Church of England
Sam Rainsy: Has Cambodia's opposition been outfoxed?
Lucy Prebble: How are writers facing the future?
John Cooper Clarke - where does his word magic come from?
Lord Goldsmith: Is a green backlash reshaping politics?
Nathan Law: Has China eradicated dissent in Hong Kong?
Andriy Khlyvnyuk: What is war doing to Ukraine’s culture?
Imran Khan: Is Pakistan heading for political chaos?
Kwame Kwei-Armah: Are audiences prepared to engage?
Isabella Tree: Is rewilding a pathway to a healthier planet?
Agnes Callamard: Is Amnesty facing a credibility crisis?
Lewis Pugh: Pushing the limits of the human body
Gabriel Boric: Can the new left bring change to Chile?
Mikhail Zygar: Is Putin in a vulnerable position?
Tomás Saraceno: What does 'being human' mean?
Laurence Boone: Can France's government deal with social divisions?
María Corina Machado: The existential fight for Venezuela
Ann Leslie: What does it mean to be a foreign correspondent?
Peter Boghossian: Has academia been corrupted by ‘woke’ ideology?
Jennifer Morgan: Is the rich world doing enough to combat climate change?
Anielle Franco: Can Brazil tackle racial inequality?
Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover: Can the Anglican church hold together?
Patrick Verkooijen: Is climate change inevitable?
Dmytro Kuleba: Will Ukraine get the help it needs?
Shashi Tharoor: Is India on the right path?
Daniel Ellsberg: The dangers of military might
Andy Burnham: Can power in the UK be decentralised?
Peter Singer: Is the animal rights movement unstoppable?
Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro): Satire in South Africa
Abdullah Mohtadi: What do Iran's Kurds want?
Ama Ata Aidoo: Celebrating women in Africa
Julius Malema: What would he do with power?
Roxane Gay: An unflinching memoir
Martin Amis: The 2013 interview
John Steenhuisen: Is he a credible alternative to the ANC?
Fikile Mbalula: Will the ANC pay the price of failure?
Sir Isaac Julien: The lasting impact of art
Jane Horrocks: The pathway to empowerment
Hartmut Dorgerloh: Where do colonial treasures belong?
Wavel Ramkalawan: Are the Seychelles becoming paradise lost?
Karin Kneissl: Vienna’s ties to Moscow and the impact of Austrian neutrality
Penpa Tsering: Preserving Tibet's identity
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: Has war in Ukraine led to a rethink in Germany?
Niels Annen: Germany's new foreign policy
Baaba Maal: Can the Sahel overcome its challenges?
John Cooper Clarke: Punk and poetry
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Defying Putin
Péter Szijjártó: Is Hungary alienating the EU and Nato?
Christo Grozev: Investigating Russia
Danny Danon: Is Netanyahu jeopardising Israel’s future?
Ben Ferencz: The last Nuremberg trials prosecutor
Richard Neal: How Northern Ireland affects US-UK relations
Geoffrey Robertson: The case for international justice
David Beasley: Can the world afford to feed its most vulnerable?
Bogdan Aurescu: How is Romania handling the pressure from the war on Ukraine?
Petr Pavel: Can Ukraine still count on Europe's support?
Evgeny Popov: Are cracks appearing at the Kremlin?
James Daunt: Is the books industry a place where creativity and diversity truly thrive?
Mustafa Barghouti: Can Palestinians improve their situation?
Sergei Pugachev: Inside Putin's rise
Simcha Rothman: Is Israel plunging into chaos?
Notis Mitarachi: Has Greece's government lost the confidence of the people?
Félix Maradiaga: Standing up to Nicaragua's president
Tikhon Dzyadko: Is there an audience for independent news in Russia?
Ece Temelkuran: Is Erdogan's control of Turkey under threat?
Olesya Khromeychuk: Conflict and identity
Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying
Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM
Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights
Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?
Kira Rudik: Can Ukraine win this war?
Pervez Musharraf: Power in Pakistan
Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?
Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?
Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?
Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?
Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?
Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin
Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
Hardtalk in 2022
Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights
David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?
Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?
London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?
Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy
Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?
Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?
Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?
Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?
Mark Wolf: Does the world need a new anti-corruption court?
David Dimbleby: Are journalistic values under threat?
Gerard Lyons: Is Britain's economy up to scratch?
Sauli Niinistö: Finland's new strategic direction
Ben Hodges: Is Ukrainian victory inevitable?
Rafael Grossi: Is nuclear power ever risk-free?
Dimitar Kovačevski: Can North Macedonia finally join the EU?
Matthew Collins: Taking on the far right
Audrey Tang: Can Taiwan forge its own path?
Jan Lipavský: Will energy crisis break Europe's stand against Moscow?
German Galushchenko: How vulnerable is Ukraine?
Dr Anthony Fauci: What did the US get wrong about Covid?
Amin Salam: Is Lebanon heading for meltdown?
Maggie Haberman: Donald Trump and journalistic responsibility
Boris Grebenshchikov: Culture and protest in Russia
Masih Alinejad: A revolution for Iranian women?
Evgeny Popov: Russia's mobilisation
Reverend Richard Coles: Living with grief
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze: Can Putin’s threats undermine support for Ukraine?
Maria Pevchikh: Where does Russia's anti-Putin movement go from here?
Vadym Prystaiko: Can Ukraine count on its allies?
Enrico Letta: Is Italy set to choose a far-right government?
Lindsey Graham: Trump and the midterms
Tova Friedman: Learning from history
Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers
Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?
Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?
Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?
Krišjānis Kariņš: Is Latvia still vulnerable?
George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear
Shon Faye: The transgender issue
Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?
Albert Woodfox: Freedom after a life inside
Gregory Doran: Why does Shakespeare still captivate us?
The Singh Twins: Mixing art and politics
James Lovelock: The future of life on Earth
Julius Malema: Is South Africa on the brink of chaos?
Fatih Birol: Could short-term panic derail the clean energy transition?
Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?
Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?
Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?
Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?
Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?
Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds
Steve Thompson: Rugby's traumatic legacy
Lord Patten: Were promises to Hong Kong broken?
K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to choose between the US and China?
Henry Huiyao Wang: Is China exposing its vulnerabilities?
João Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?
Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin
Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
Dr Njoki Ngumi – Artist and film-maker
Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer
Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
Danica Roem: America's culture wars
Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
Iván Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
Zoltán Kovács: Whose side is Hungary really on?
Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?
Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin
Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail
Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?
Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?
Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin’s strategy be a template for China to follow?
Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'
Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?
Claude Joseph: Can Haiti be saved?
Maria Butina: What is Russia achieving in Ukraine?
Mairead McGuinness: How far will the EU go to support Kyiv?
Ilya Ponomarev: A former Russian MP on fighting Putin
Francis Fukuyama: The end of the end of history?
Tobias Ellwood: How should the West stand up to Putin?
Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: Is the fate of Belarus tied to the fate of Ukraine?
Michael Carpenter: Is this a new age of conflict?
Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Former Ukrainian PM
Andrey Kurkov: Putin's attack on Ukraine's identity
David Miliband: President of the International Rescue Committee
Iván Fischer: The power and joy of music
Leonid Volkov: How strong is Putin's grip on Russia?
Ingrid Betancourt: Can Colombia defeat corruption?
Jamie Raskin, Democrat Congressman, House Committe to Investigative January 6th Attack
Yuri Vitrenko: Russia, Ukraine and Europe's energy
Kiril Petkov: Is Bulgaria ready to stand up to Russia?
Michael McCaul: Is Biden up to facing off with Putin?
George Takei, Actor
Marine Le Pen: France's future president?
Gabrielius Landsbergis: Tension in Eastern Europe
Bassem Youssef: Do we expect too much from satire?
Isabel Allende: What does South America's future hold?
Mariana Mazzucato: The space race and our economic futures
Dominic Lee: China's Hong Kong takeover
Mohammad Marandi: Iran's nuclear negotiations
Damian Collins: Can Boris Johnson be trusted?
Oleksii Reznikov: An invasion of Ukraine?
Kathleen Stock: The debate about sex, gender and equality
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC: Fighting for equality in British law
Sathnam Sanghera: Confronting Britain's history
Bryan Stevenson: Will equality ever be more than a dream in the US?
Nureldin Satti: Sudan's coup
Laurence Tribe: Is the US system of government in peril?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Trust in science
Ernesto Araújo: Has Brazil failed to protect its people?
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov: Fighting for a free press
John Kerry: US Special Envoy for Climate
Moeed Yusuf: What will a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan mean for Pakistan?
Ken Buck: Big tech and Republican politics
Nicolai Tangen: Can Norway move on from fossil fuels?
Rana Ayyub: Abuse, intimidation and legal threats
Péter Márki-Zay: Can Viktor Orban be beaten at the ballot box?
Ryan Girdusky: Race and education in America
George Takei: Growing up in an internment camp
Ritchie Torres: Is America ready to embrace progressive politics?
Pawel Jablonski: Could Poland exit the EU?
Patrice Evra: The flaws in football
Mike Leigh: Art and the cinema
Prime Minister Albin Kurti: Is he a source of instability in the Balkans?
Fiona Hill: What did Trump mean for America and the world?
Fatih Birol: Can greenhouse gas emissions be eliminated?
Bruno Le Maire: Is France looking for a new economic direction?
Ariel Dorfman: Ghosts of the past
David Baddiel, Comedian and writer
Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary
Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying
Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?
Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US
Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security
Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet
Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?
Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Michel Barnier on Brexit fallout
Rafael Grossi - Nuclear fallout
Nitin Sawhney, Musician and Composer
Roger Deakins: How is technology changing cinema?
Bryan Hughes: Abortion in Texas
Carlos Fernando Chamorro: Exiled from Nicaragua
Naomi Campbell, supermodel and businesswoman
Robin Hanbury-Tenison: An explorer protecting indigenous lands
Former interrogator for the CIA, James Mitchell
Rudy Giuliani: Reflecting on 9/11
Nadia Calviño: Is Europe too fragmented to shape the 21st Century?
Lindsey Graham: What is the Republican vision for America?
Omar Zakhilwal: What ideology will prevail in Afghanistan?
Maggi Hambling: An evolving creative vision
Andrei Kelin: Russia, Afghanistan and the UK
Paula Kahumbu: Saving Africa's wild spaces
Gedion Timothewos: Ethiopia's civil war
Kamila Sidiqi: What future do Afghanistan's women face?
Tobias Ellwood: Britain's Afghanistan exit
Aly Raisman: Are gold medals put above athletes' wellbeing?
Getachew Reda: What is the endgame for Tigray's rebels?
Daryl Davis: Reaching out to the KKK
Hamid Mir: Is Pakistan a safe place for journalists?
Sir Andrew Pollard: The war on Covid-19
RoseAnne Archibald: Uncovering Canada's dark past
Sir Hilary Beckles: Reparations for slavery
Lazarus Chakwera: President of Malawi
Péter Szijjártó: Is Hungary undermining European values?
Hamdullah Mohib: Can the Afghan government hold out against the Taliban?
Fikile Mbalula: Is South Africa's government being confronted with its own failure?
Laurent Lamothe: Can anything be done to end Haiti's suffering?
Michael Holding: Can sport win its fight against racism?
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: Can courage overcome injustice?
Jess Phillips: What happened to progressive politics?
Writer Lionel Shriver
Christian Happi: Can Africa become a world leader in vaccine development?
Victor Gao: 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party
Zainab Ahmed: Can Nigeria avert financial meltdown?
Rawdah Mohamed: Fashion and Muslim women
REM lead singer Michael Stipe
Johan Lundgren, EasyJet CEO: Can his business model survive Covid and climate change?
Jens Stoltenberg: Is the old alliance ready to tackle new threats?
Ben Rhodes: President Biden's foreign policy challenges
Michael Rosen: Surviving Covid-19
Tom Kerridge: Has the pandemic changed the way we eat?
John Nkengasong: Can Africa meet its vaccination targets?
Doug Gurr: Advocating for planet Earth
Fawad Chaudhry: Is Imran Khan reneging on his promises to Pakistan?
Tito Mboweni: How much has Covid damaged South Africa?
Ben Hodges: Is America's global power waning?
Vladimir Chizhov, Russia’s Ambassador to the EU
Husam Zomlot: Palestine's balance of power
Kaja Kallas: Do Nato and the EU have Estonia's back?
Tzipi Hotovely: Israel's ambassador to the UK
Harry Theoharis: What is in store for European summer holidays?
Fawzia Koofi: The future for women in Afghanistan
Mohammed Alyahya: Does Saudi Arabia still have America's support?
Mohamedou Ould Slahi: What is the Guantanamo legacy?
Artists Gilbert Prousch & George Passmore
Dmytro Kuleba: Has the Russian threat to Ukraine receded?
Sir Peter Westmacott: Are we at peak geopolitical risk?
Navalny aide Vladimir Ashurkov: Is Putin about to eliminate his most dangerous opponent?
Michael Mann: The new climate war?
Silvia Foti: When truth trumps family loyalty
Serj Tankian: System of a Down frontman on activism and music
Tsitsi Dangarembga: Are better days coming for Zimbabwe?
Amrullah Saleh: Is the Afghan peace process running out of road?
Ken Rogoff: Does Bidenomics make sense?
Barbara Amiel: What do the super-rich owe the rest of the world?
Sir Vartan Melkonian: From Beirut street child to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Erika Lust: Can porn be feminist?
Marina Abramović: A remarkable career pushed to the limits
Jean-Claude Juncker: Is Covid an unprecedented test of EU cohesion?
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee: Is the concept of ‘one country, two systems’ dead?
Baroness Minouche Shafik: What do we owe each other?
Stephen King: Are you afraid of the dark?
Vjosa Osmani: Acting President of Kosovo
Adar Poonawalla: How to vaccinate the world
Dr Sasa: Does Myanmar have a democratic future?
Jewher Ilham: Fears for her Uighur family in China
Evan McMullin: What next for anti-Trump Republicans?
Khin Zaw Win: Protests in Myanmar
Valdis Dombrovskis: Is the EU ready to aggressively defend its interests?
Harvey Goldsmith: Can live music survive Covid?
Dr Seth Berkley: How to ensure the whole world gets a Covid vaccine
Elizabeth Neumann: The battle for the soul of the US Republican Party
Timothy Snyder: Lessons from history
Douglas Stuart: Stories of tender souls in tough places
Yogendra Yadav: Are farmers' protests a defining moment for India?
Kirill Dmitriev: Russia's Sputnik V a vaccine for humankind?
Clément Beaune: Is Covid-19 exposing weaknesses in the EU?
Laurie Santos: Can we learn how to be happy?
Evan Medeiros: How should Biden approach China?
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Has Belarus’s revolution stalled?
Dr Soumya Swaminathan: Is vaccine inequity undermining the fight against Covid?
Madawi Al-Rasheed: Can the Saudi Crown Prince's authority really be challenged?
Thomas Byrne: Ireland's twin challenge
Leonid Volkov: Protests on the streets of Russia
Yuli Edelstein: Israel's Covid-19 vaccination programme leads the world
Lina Khan: Can big tech companies be tamed by US antitrust laws?
Kenneth Chan: Is democracy lost in Hong Kong?
Tamara Rojo: Ballet in a pandemic
Alan Dershowitz: Trump's second impeachment
Virologist Barry Schoub: South Africa's covid situation 'is bleak'
Alan Rusbridger: Fact v fiction
Admiral James Stavridis: The aftermath of the capitol riot
Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?
Hermann Hauser: Is Europe failing to create tech champions?
Christopher Ruddy: Is the media amplifying division in America?
Bernardine Evaristo: Is British culture changing?
David Beasley of the World Food Programme: Is the world set for new famines?
Owase Jeelani: Making life and death decisions
Ishaq Dar: Pakistan's power struggle
Anthony Gardner: How will Joe Biden handle foreign policy?
Gedion Timothewos: Is Ethiopia sliding into civil war?
Jeremy Hunt: Britain's battle with Covid-19
David Nabarro: How can countries minimise Covid damage?
Pawel Jablonski: Why is Poland blocking the EU's budget?
Judit Varga: How far is Hungary prepared to go in its defiance of the EU?
Arancha Gonzalez: How much influence does the EU have?
HR McMaster: Trump and the transition
Jack Kingston: What is next for Trump?
Leopoldo Lopez: An opposition leader in exile
Jacob Bleacher: Putting astronauts back on the moon
Perez Hilton: The 2000s' gossip-in-chief
Jim Clyburn: Can Biden win?
Dominique Schnapper on secularism in France after Samuel Paty's killing
Peter Frankopan: Can history offer us any lessons on the coronavirus pandemic?
Jack Kingston: Can Trump win?
Jim O'Neill: Is this a time for governments to be bold?
Rob Schenck: Can Trump still count on the religious right?
Volodymyr Zelensky: How is Ukraine's president faring?
Narendra Taneja: How well has India handled the coronavirus crisis?
Joe Henrich: Is Western society 'weird'?
James Rebanks: Sustainable food in a growing world
Leroy Logan: How hard is it to root out discrimination in the police?
Paolo Gentiloni: Can Europe's economy recover?
Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system
Leonid Volkov: What next for Russia's opposition?
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Race, identity and power
Rafael Grossi: Is the world's nuclear watchdog being undermined?
Douglas Ross: Can the new Scottish Conservative leader preserve the UK?
Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?
Frank Luntz: Can Donald Trump win?
Laura Kövesi: Can the EU's 'corruption buster' deliver?
UN Secretary General António Guterres: Is multilateralism dead?
Alfre Woodard: The artist and the activist
Sam Harris: A place for conversation in an angry world
Natalia Pasternak: Brazil's battle between science and politics
Natalia Kaliada: Where do Belarus activists go from here?
Katie Hill: When a politician's nude photos are leaked
Kishore Mahbubani: Has Covid-19 weakened the West?
Abdalla Hamdok: Exclusive interview with Sudan's Prime Minister
Wu'er Kaixi: China's crackdown on Uighur dissent
Nikol Pashinyan: Peace for Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Raoul Nehme: Can Lebanon be saved from collapse?
Chris Packham: 'Finding the good in the bad' of Covid-19
Vanessa Neumann: Did Venezuela's opposition miss their chance?
Sir Jeremy Farrar: 'I do believe there will be a vaccine' in 2020 and 2021
Leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party Mary Lou McDonald
Angus Deaton: The cost of the 'deaths of despair'
Gloria Allred: Epstein victim lawyer
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: 'No-one will be safe until everyone is safe'
Adam Goodes: How racism drove him from Australian Rules football
Husam Zomlot: How could Palestine respond to annexation?
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law
Jane Goodall: A life with chimpanzees
Ronny Tong: Has China killed Hong Kong's special status?
Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot & Russian protest
Kathy Sullivan: Exploring space and the Mariana Trench
Armando Iannucci: Is this a bad time to be funny?
Maria Ressa: Is the press under attack in the Philippines?
André Leon Talley: Race, fashion and Vogue
Chile Eboe-Osuji: Can the International Criminal Court achieve its goals?
Jim McGovern: Can Biden unite the left?
Arancha Gonzalez: Why isn't the world working together?
Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin: Are we getting the pandemic response right?
Simon Cheng: 'We need to fight for democracy in Hong Kong and China'
Mary Frances Berry: A new era in civil rights?
James Graham: How much do we care about protecting our culture?
Rutger Bregman: Are humans essentially good?
Mário Centeno: Can the Euro survive Covid?
National General Secretary of India's BJP, Ram Madhav
Raghuram Rajan: Should economies pile up debt to cope with Covid-19?
Rocco Forte: Can hotels recover?
French Minister for Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire: EU faces 'gravest crisis'
Anders Tegnell: Is Sweden the best model for coronavirus response?
David Miliband: President, International Rescue Committee
Luiz Henrique Mandetta: Brazil's sacked Health Minister speaks out
US Democrat Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison: Joe Biden 'bringing calm to the storm we're in'
Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld: 'Decline of the EU is possible but it's in our own hands'
Liu Xiaoming: Is China a victim of Covid-19 or the source of the problem?
Jens Stoltenberg: Has Nato risen to the challenge of Covid-19?
Yuval Noah Harari: Covid-19 - a new regime of surveillance?
Brian Cox: From poverty to Succession
David Nabarro: Is the WHO failing its greatest test?
Zoltan Kovacs: Is the EU facing its first de facto dictatorship?
Ola Källenius: Surviving coronavirus's economic shock
Antonio Guterres: How should the UN fight Covid-19?
Margaret Heffernan: Is it time to embrace uncertainty?
Laurence Boone: Is enough being done to prevent a recession?
Eoin Ó Broin: Will Sinn Fein be part of Ireland's government?
Mufaddal Hamadeh: Is the world indifferent to Syria's sufffering?
Ian Goldin: Will Covid-19 cause a new recession?
Congressman Anthony Brown: Is Joe Biden really the best the Democrats can do?
William Kentridge: The unnaturalness of apartheid
Gabriel Attal: Has the magic worn off France's Emmanuel Macron?
David Tait: Speaking out about sexual abuse
Mmusi Maimane: Can his new party become a force in South Africa?
Professor David Heymann: The fight against coronavirus
Dr Yasser Abu Jamei: Mental health in Gaza
Alan Dershowitz: Are the rich above the law?
Tarana Burke: What difference has #MeToo made?
Halima Aden: Challenging supermodel stereotypes
Agnes Callamard: Investigating the Khashoggi and Soleimani killings
Paul Krugman: Nobel Prize-winning economist warns of threat to America’s economic future
Len McCluskey: What's the future of the UK Labour Party?
John Kani: Art and activism
Ian Blackford: Does the SNP have a winning strategy?
Ai Weiwei: Huawei, Hong Kong and being an artist in exile
Lauri Love: The realities of cyber security
Jean-Claude Juncker: What's next for the EU and Britain?
Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?
Mindu Hornick: Don't let Auschwitz memories erode
Don Bacon: Will Republicans regret their loyalty to Trump?
Alexander Blackman: How should crimes on the battlefield be handled?
Tony Garnett: Making TV with a radical purpose
Seth Freedman: Spying for Harvey Weinstein
Douglas Silliman: What is Donald Trump's strategy in Iraq?
Sir Antony Gormley: Britain's most successful sculptor
Vali Nasr: Have strategic realities in the Middle East changed?
Ayad Allawi: What if the US pulls out of Iraq?
Malcolm Gladwell: Should we trust strangers?
Andrew Mitchell MP: What will Boris Johnson do next?
Staffan de Mistura: Can the international community still stop wars?
Bill Bryson: US author demystifying the British
Aryana Sayeed: Afghanistan’s biggest pop star
Eliot Higgins: Searching for facts in a 'post-truth' world
Megan Phelps-Roper: Leaving 'America's most obnoxious hate group'
Daniel Jones: The man who unveiled the CIA’s darkest secrets
Behrouz Boochani: Six years as a marooned migrant
Stephen Sackur is on the road in Zimbabwe
Wendell Pierce: A tale of two Americas
Liu Xiaoming: How will China respond to unrest in Hong Kong?
Mangaliso Ndlovu: Can Zimbabwe avert environmental disaster?
Christopher Ruddy: How much trouble is Donald Trump in?
Author and explorer - Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Investigative journalist - Ronan Farrow
Minister for Islamic Affairs in Malaysia -Mujahid Yusof Rawa
Film director - Ken Loach
Esther Duflo - Nobel Prize-winning economist
Hong Kong’s Secretary for Housing and Transport , 2012 – 2017 - Anthony Cheung
Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Campaigner and businesswoman Gina Miller
Casey Legler: What does it take to emerge from darkness?
Former spy - Willie Carlin
Zohrab Mnatsakanyan - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia
Alfred Bosch
Sally Lane and John Letts, parents of Jack Letts
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey - Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
British intelligence whistleblower - Katharine Gun
Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley - Stuart Russell
Financier and Brexit backer Stuart Wheeler
Suede singer-songwriter Brett Anderson
Brazil's Environment Minister - Ricardo Salles
Actor and activist - Jameela Jamil
Daughter of former Chief Minister of Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti - Iltija Mufti
Lawyer - Kimberley Motley
Former White House Communications Director - Anthony Scaramucci
President of Microsoft - Brad Smith
Lebanon's Foreign Minister - Gebran Bassil
South Africa's Minister of International Relations - Naledi Pandor
Chairman, United Liberation Movement for West Papua - Benny Wenda
Anson Chan - Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, 1993-2001
Independent MP, UK - Heidi Allen
French MEP and former Europe Minister - Nathalie Loiseau
Former UK Lord Chancellor - Lord Falconer
Sea Rescue Captain - Carola Rackete
IT entrepreneur and philanthropist - Dame Stephanie Shirley
Gabon's Minister of Forests and Environment - Lee White
Mia Khalifa: Former adult actress
Kang Kyung-wha – Foreign Minister, South Korea
CEO of Philip Morris International - Andre Calantzopoulos
Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, Deputy Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council
Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion - Roger Hallam
Leader of Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement - Shah Faesal
Director of Antiracism Research and Policy Center US - Ibram Kendi
Former Conservative Party leader- Iain Duncan Smith
Chair of the Irish Senate Brexit Committee - Neale Richmond
Australian scientist - Tim Flannery
Former British Foreign Secretary - Jack Straw
Leader, Hong Kong Civic Party - Alvin Yeung
Albert Woodfox: Life after solitary confinement
Olafur Eliasson - Artist
Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India - Raghuram Rajan
Mayor of Istanbul - Ekrem Imamoğlu
Foreign Minister of Iran - Javad Zarif
Nobel Prize-winning economist - Sir Angus Deaton
Prime Minister, Greece - Kyriakos Mitsotakis
President of the UK Supreme Court - Lady Hale
Former UK Prime Minister - Sir John Major
US Republican Senator, Florida - Rick Scott
Former East German sprinter - Ines Geipel
Actor and activist - Michael Sheen
Chairman of the UK Brexit Party - Richard Tice
US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber and Communications - Robert Strayer
Senior adviser to President Obama (2009-2017) - Valerie Jarrett
Writer - Thomas Keneally
Cardiac surgeon - Samer Nashef
Bas Eickhout, Dutch MEP, GreenLeft Party
US Democratic Party funder - Tom Steyer
Iyad El-Baghdadi, human rights activist
Historian, geographer, anthropolgist and author Jared Diamond
Eric Wainaina, musician
Libyan author Hisham Matar
Justice for the 21, 1974 Birmingham pub bombings - Julie Hambleton
Hamas spokesman - Ghazi Hamad
Former Olympic swimmer - Sharron Davies
Opposition leader of Russia's Yabloko Party - Grigory Yavlinsky
Tony Adams: How vulnerable are elite sport stars?
Chief executive, Stonewall - Ruth Hunt
Venezuelan Opposition Ambassador to the UK - Vanessa Neumann
UK Foreign Secretary - Jeremy Hunt
Vice President, Centre for China and Globalization - Victor Gao
Former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York - Preet Bharara
Afghan Presidential Special Peace Envoy - Mohammad Umer Daudzai
Chairman, Sudan’s Transitional Military Council - Lt General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
Presidential candidate, DRC - Martin Fayulu
Wole Soyinka, Nobel Literature laureate
Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister, Germany - Olaf Scholz
Chairman, Sudan Reform Now - Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani
Writer - Edouard Louis
Jason Rezaian, journalist imprisoned in Tehran, 2014 - 2016
Apollo 11 astronaut - Michael Collins
Former US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns
Philippe Lamberts MEP
Bernard Chan of the Hong Kong Executive Council
Writer - Angie Thomas
Former Trump campaign adviser - George Papadopoulos
Ken Clarke MP – Former Conservative Chancellor
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of Nato
Interim President, World Bank - Kristalina Georgieva
Former chief constable of Kent Police, UK - Michael Fuller
Deputy of Venezuela’s Voluntad Popular party - Juan Andres Mejia
Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
British rapper Professor Green
Prime Minister of Italy (2016 – 2018) - Paolo Gentiloni
Former British diplomat, and National Security Adviser - Lord Ricketts
Russian journalist - Galina Timchenko
Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Péter Szijjártó
US-Lebanese comedian - Nemr Abou Nassar
Photographer - Marilyn Stafford
Yemen's Foreign Minister - Khaled Alyemany
Deputy President, Kenya - William Ruto
March for our Lives co-founder Cameron Kasky
Writer - Leila Slimani
Ireland's former Prime Minister - Bertie Ahern
Former Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Christian Zerpa
Writer - Carl Hiaasen
Laura Boldrini MP, Former Speaker, Chamber of Deputies in Italy
Former Interior Minister, Afghanistan - Amrullah Saleh
Explorer and aviator Bertrand Piccard
UK's Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell
Malaysia's Minister for Youth and Sport - Syed Saddiq
Tanzanian Opposition MP - Tundu Lissu
Economy and Finance Minister, France - Bruno Le Maire
Adviser to President Trump's 2020 campaign - Mica Mosbacher
Jonathan Coe - Writer
President, Conference of European Rabbis - Pinchas Goldschmidt
General Secretary, Unite Union, UK - Len McCluskey
Dr William Frankland, Allergist and WW2 Prisoner of War
Jack Reacher author Lee Child
Gulnur Aybet, Senior Adviser to President of Turkey
Finance Minister of Pakistan - Asad Umar
Musician - Mark Knopfler
Nicaraguan Dissident Felix Maradiaga
UK Astronomer Royal - Sir Martin Rees
Pro-Brexit Conservative MP, Owen Paterson
Brexit Steering Group, European Parliament - Danuta Hübner MEP
Former UK Transport Minister Jo Johnson
Saudi exile - Abdullah Alaoudh
Israeli Education Minister and Leader of Jewish Home - Naftali Bennett
Senior US District Judge - Mark L. Wolf
Mohamed El-Erian - Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz
Editor, The Washington Post - Martin Baron
Former Commander ISAF and US Forces, Afghanistan - General Stanley McChrystal
Professor of Behavioural Genetics - Robert Plomin
American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director - David Cole
Deputy Energy Minister, South Africa - Thembisile Majola
UK Labour MP - David Lammy
National Security Adviser of Afghanistan - Hamdullah Mohib
Minister of State, UK Foreign Office - Alan Duncan MP
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Malawi's Vice President - Saulos Chilima
Vice President of European Parliament, Mairead McGuinness
Professor at Columbia Law School - Kimberlé Crenshaw
Is Saudi Arabia Heading Down a Dangerous Path?
Imam of Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen - Sherin Khankan
Cuban conceptual artist Tania Bruguera
Cuban Conceptual Artist - Tania Bruguera
Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
Former Greek Finance Minister - Yanis Varoufakis
Former Conservative Party Leader, UK – Lord Howard
Editor in Chief, Guardian News & Media (1995-2015) - Alan Rusbridger
CEO, UK Space Agency - Graham Turnock
Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince
Nury Turkel - Uyghur Human Rights Project, Washington
Matteo Salvini - Italy’s Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
Spain's Foreign Minister - Josep Borrell
Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich
Former US Secretary of Homeland Security - Michael Chertoff
Israel’s ambassador to the UN - Danny Danon
Artist - Suleiman Mansour
German MEP - David McAllister
President of Kenya - Uhuru Kenyatta
Executive Director, International Trade Centre - Arancha Gonzalez
President of Colombia - Iván Duque
Kofi Annan – Former UN Secretary General (1997-2006)
Outgoing Director, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute - Bobby Duffy
Imam, Oxford Islamic Congregation - Dr. Taj Hargey
Professor Mohammad Marandi – Tehran University, Iran
Writer and Equality Campaigner - Vicky Beeching
Dutch MEP - Sophie In't Veld
Clinical Psychologist - Jordan Peterson
Minister of National Development Planning, Indonesia - Bambang Brodjonegoro
Mother and Baby Homes Survivors, Ireland - Paul Redmond
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
Kenyan Film Director - Wanuri Kahiu
Writer - Tim Winton
Elmar Brok - Member of the European Parliament
Minister for Law and Justice in India - Ravi Shankar Prasad
Hameed Haroon, CEO of Dawn Media Group
CEO, Newsmax Media Inc. - Christopher Ruddy
Prime Minister of Macedonia - Zoran Zaev
Sue Black: Looking death in the face
Mayor of Jerusalem - Nir Barkat
US Deputy National Security Adviser, 2009 - 2017 - Ben Rhodes
Computer scientist and author - Jaron Lanier
Iranian Environmental Scientist - Kaveh Madani
Former Director of the FBI James Comey
Austria's Foreign Minister - Karin Kneissl
Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
President of Sinn Féin, Ireland - Mary Lou McDonald
Ethiopian Opposition Politician Andargachew Tsege
Maria Lourdes Sereno - Former Supreme Court Chief Justice, Philippines
Afghanistan's Chief Executive - Abdullah Abdullah
Labour MP, UK - Chuka Umunna
US Ambassador to Russia, 2012-14 - Michael McFaul
Imran Khan - Chairman, Movement for Justice Party, Pakistan
Biochemist - Jennifer Doudna
Author and Former Islamist - Ed Husain
Former News International Executive Chairman Les Hinton.
Egyptian Writer and Activist - Nawal El Saadawi
Sinead Redmond and Caroline Simons - Pro and Anti Abortion Activists
Former President of Brazil - Dilma Rousseff
President Erdogan of Turkey
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister- Tzipi Hotovely
Ukraine's Health Minister - Ulana Suprun
Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party - Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari
EU Commissioner for Justice - Věra Jourová
Syria's MP for Aleppo - Fares Shehabi
President, The Gambia - Adama Barrow
Former UN Secretary General (1997-2006) - Kofi Annan
Russia's Foreign Minister - Sergey Lavrov
Northern Ireland Peace Negotiator - Monica McWilliams
Middle East adviser to President Obama (2013-15) - Philip Gordon
Director, UK Serious Fraud Office - David Green
Norway's Finance Minister - Siv Jensen
Artist - Michael Rakowitz
Author and Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ambassador Donald Yamamoto
Director General of the WTO- Roberto Azevêdo
Actor - Mahira Khan
Former Governor of New Mexico, US - Bill Richardson
Former Editor of Cumhuriyet, Turkey - Can Dündar
Prime Minister, Democratic Republic of Congo - Bruno Tshibala
Investigative Journalist - Seymour Hersh
Co-founder Black Lives Matter - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Writer - Mohsin Hamid
Boris Titov, leader of Russia's Party of Growth
Ahmad Tibi - Leader of the Arab Movement for Change in Israel
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine
Prime Minister of Kosovo - Ramush Haradinaj
Psychologist Steven Pinker
Petroleum Minister, South Sudan - Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth
Former humanitarian aid worker - Amira Malik Miller
Peter Boehringer - MP, Alternative Party for Germany
Former mayor of El Hatillo, Venezuela - David Smolansky
Breaking the Silence - Avner Gvaryahu
US Political Strategist - Roger Stone
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Mehmet Simsek
Secretary General of the Jubilee Party, Kenya - Raphael Tuju
Leader of the National Super Alliance, Kenya - Raila Odinga
Argentina’s Foreign Minister - Jorge Faurie
Former President of the UK Supreme Court - Lord Neuberger
Actor - Shah Rukh Khan
South Africa’s Deputy President - Cyril Ramaphosa
Former UK Conservative Cabinet Minister - Ken Clarke
French-Moroccan Writer - Zineb El Rhazoui
Russian Ambassador to the EU - Vladimir Chizhov
Former White House Communications Director - Anthony Scaramucci
Chair of Republican National Committee, 2009-2011 - Michael Steele
Actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador - Ashley Judd
Former Zimbabwean Cabinet Minister - Jonathan Moyo
Comedian and Disability Advocate - Maysoon Zayid
Co-founder of Hamas' Political Bureau - Mahmoud Zahar
Britain's former Foreign Secretary - Lord David Owen
Last surviving British Dambuster - George 'Johnny' Johnson
Israel's Education Minister Naftali Bennett
Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs - Ibrahim Ghandour
Chef and Restaurateur - Marcus Wareing
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Beatrice Fihn and Setsuko Thurlow
MP, India's Upper House - Swapan Dasgupta
Oxfam Executive Director Winnie Byanyima
Secretary of State for the EU, Spain - Jorge Toledo
Russian Presidential Candidate - Ksenia Sobchak
Rockstar and businessman Gene Simmons
Poet and playwright: Lemn Sissay
Former Managing Director of Leeds United - David Haigh
Director - Baz Luhrmann
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee - David Miliband
Comedian - Kathy Griffin
Saudi Journalist - Jamal Khashoggi
Conservative Party MP, UK - Jacob Rees-Mogg
Chairman, European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee - David McAllister MEP
US Energy Secretary (2013–2017) - Ernest Moniz
Republican Left of Catalonia party - Alfred Bosch
Zambia's Opposition Leader - Hakainde Hichilema
CEO of The King Center - Dr Bernice A King
Former Judge, South Africa Constitutional Court - Albie Sachs
Professor of Robot Ethics Alan Winfield
Shadow Foreign Secretary, UK - Emily Thornberry MP
Film Director - Barbet Schroeder
Author - Dan Brown
Actor and Activist - Jane Fonda
Intelligence and Security chief, Kurdistan Regional Government - Masrour Barzani
Wilko Johnson: A cult hero of rock music
Deputy Leader, Alternative for Germany Party - Beatrix Von Storch
France's Minister for European Affairs - Nathalie Loiseau
Pakistan's Foreign Minister - Khawaja Asif
Russian Foreign Affairs Spokesman Konstantin Kosachev
Prime Minister of Italy, 2011-2013 - Mario Monti
Nobel Prize Winning Author - Orhan Pamuk
Hungary’s Foreign Minister - Péter Szijjártó
Secretary-General of the United Nations - Antonio Guterres
Former President of South Africa (2008-2009) - Kgalema Motlanthe
Olusegun Obasanjo - Former President of Nigeria (1999-2007)
Writer Howard Jacobson
US Deputy Secretary of State, 2007-2009 - John Negroponte
CEO of Air Asia - Tony Fernandes
US Senator Lindsey Graham
Former North Korea Detainee - Kenneth Bae
American Civil Rights Activist - Richard Cohen
MEP for South-East England - Daniel Hannan
Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili
Former South African Finance Minister - Pravin Gordhan
Acting Director General, Al Jazeera Media Network - Mostefa Souag
Anti-Maduro Dissident - Isaias Medina
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland - Witold Waszczykowski
Former Governor of the Bank of France Christian Noyer
Vice President of Iraq - Dr Ayad Allawi
Mother of Deceased 'IS' fighter - Nicola Benyahia
Director General of the IPPF - Tewodros Melesse
Lebanon’s Deputy Prime Minister - Ghassan Hasbani
UAE's Ambassador to Russia - Omar Saif Ghobash
Composer Mohammed Fairouz
Zimbabwe opposition leader - Welshman Ncube
Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey
Writer and activist - Naomi Klein
Chief of Army Staff, Nigeria - Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai
Prosecutor, International Criminal Court - Fatou Bensouda
US Senator for Connecticut (1989-2013) - Joe Lieberman
Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon
Screenwriter and LGBTQ Activist Dustin Lance Black
Philippines Senator - Antonio Trillanes
South Africa's Public Protector (2009-2016) - Thuli Madonsela
Former President of Russian Railways - Vladimir Yakunin
Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister - Alexander De Croo
Economist Stephen King
Nicola Benyahia - Founder of anti-radicalisation service Families for Life
US Democratic Party Insider - Jake Sullivan
Civil Rights Activist - Rachel Dolezal
US Politician - Bernie Sanders
Head of UN Mission in South Sudan - David Shearer
Executive Editor of the New York Times - Dean Baquet
Sir Suma Chakrabarti - President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Midlle East Specialist - Gilles Kepel
Turkish Author - Elif Shafak
Nigeria's Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu
Speaker of the Venezuelan Parliament Julio Borges
Director of Europol - Rob Wainwright
Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade - Charles Flanagan
Emmaunel Macron advisor Sylvie Goulard MEP
Former US North Korea negotiator Christopher Hill
Police Minister of South Africa - Fikile Mbalula
UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Yemen - Jamie McGoldrick
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
Bishop Angaelos - Coptic Orthodox Church UK
Russia's Ambassador to the EU - Vladimir Chizhov
Philosopher and Writer - Pascal Bruckner
Executive Secretary of UN ESCWA 2010-2017 - Rima Khalaf
Psychologist Jan Kizilhan
Economist Sir Paul Collier
Italy's Europe Minister - Sandro Gozi
Sir Ian McKellen - Actor
Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault
South African Anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada
Ben Ferencz, Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Deputy Leader of the Turkey's Republican People's Party - Selin Sayek Böke
Joshua Wong, Secretary General of Demosisto political party, Hong Kong
Zimbabwe's Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice-Chairman of Open Russia
Former US Senator for Florida Bob Graham
Vice President of Zimbabwe (2004 – 2014) - Joice Mujuru
Moise Katumbi, opposition politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Adviser to the President of the Palestinian Authority - Husam Zomlot
Ukraine's Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Prime Minister of Singapore - Lee Hsien Loong
HARDtalk: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore
Donald Verrilli, US Solicitor General, 2011-2016
Professor Mohammad Marandi - University of Tehran, Iran
Joint leader, Zionist Union, Israel - Tzipi Livni
Chief Sports Writer, Sunday Times, UK - David Walsh
Film Director – John Madden
Deputy Finance Minister, Germany - Jens Spahn
Actor and Humanitarian Activist – Forest Whitaker
Director of Competitive Enterprise Institute - Myron Ebell
Director of Competitive Enterprise Institute - Myron Ebell
Former Mexican President 2000 - 2006 - Vicente Fox
Singer and Actress - Petula Clark
European Parliament’s Chief Brexit Negotiator - Guy Verhofstadt
Pro-Brexit UK Conservative Member of Parliament - Dominic Raab
Secretary General of NATO - Jens Stoltenberg
Nigerian Agriculture Minister - Audu Ogbeh
German Defence Minister - Ursula Von Der Leyen
Spokesman for Vladimir Putin - Dmitry Peskov
Russia's Most Prominent Opposition Leader - Alexey Navalny
Dancer and Choreographer - Akram Khan
American Journalist Held Hostage in Syria, 2012 - 2014 - Theo Padnos
Sudan People's Liberation Movement in-Opposition - Angelina Teny
President of the Council on Foreign Relations - Richard Haass
Psychologist and Trauma Therapist - Jan Kizilhan
Syrian Opposition Negotiating Team Member - Bassma Kodmani
Commander UK Joint Forces Command 2013 - 2016 - General Sir Richard Barrons
Film Director - Mohamed Diab
Homa Hoodfar, recently released after 112 days imprisoned in Iran
Paul Beatty - Man Booker Prize Winning Author
South African Comedian - Trevor Noah
Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia
Deputy Prime Minister, Kurdistan Regional Government - Qubad Talabani
Northern Ireland First Minister - Arlene Foster
Foreign Minister of Lithuania - Linas Linkevičius
Executive Committee, US President-elect’s Transition Team - Anthony Scaramucci
Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz and former CEO of PIMCO - Mohamed El-Erian
Former Captive of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda - Victoria Nyanjura
Jason Furman, Chief Economic Adviser to President Obama
UN Special Envoy for Syria - Staffan de Mistura
French Prime Minister - Manuel Valls
India's Commerce and Industry Minister - Nirmala Sitharaman
Russian Journalist and Author - Mikhail Zygar
Roberto Azevêdo, Director General of the WTO
Former Director of Intelligence for the IRA - Kieran Conway
Author Patricia Cornwell
Steven Ciobo - Australia's Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment
Bulgarian Foreign Minister - Daniel Mitov
Chief Executive of Ryanair - Michael O'Leary
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary - Péter Szijjártó
Riek Machar, Former Vice President of South Sudan
Marine Le Pen - President of the National Front Party, France
Author and Campaigner Margaret Atwood
President of Americans for Tax Reform - Grover Norquist
Comedian and Satirist - Pieter-Dirk Uys
Chairman of Israeli Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee - Avi Dichter
Nigeria's Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment - Okechukwu Enelamah
Meat Loaf: A rule-breaking rock legend
Turkish author Ece Temelkuran
President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party - Sam Rainsy
Chairman of the European Parliament's EPP Group - Manfred Weber MEP
Former leader, UK Independence Party - Nigel Farage
UK Deputy Prime Minister, 2010 - 2015 - Nick Clegg
Member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council - Nathan Law
Former UBS trader - Kweku Adoboli
Former Labour Cabinet Minister - Ed Balls
Paweł Szałamacha - Poland's Finance Minister
US Senator - Lindsey Graham
CEO, Naftogaz of Ukraine - Andriy Kobolev
HARDtalk: Sara Khan
Neurosurgeon - Dr Henry Marsh
Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton
Majak D’Agoôt - Former Deputy Defence Minister, South Sudan
David Nott - Conflict Zone Surgeon
Dame Diana Rigg: Connecting with characters
Economist - Steve Keen
Civil rights activist - Rev. Al Sharpton
HARDtalk: Nicholas Burns
Filmmaker - Paul Refsdal
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan - Omar Zakhilwal
Hardtalk - Babatunde Fashola
Former CIA agent - Sabrina de Sousa
Shahbaz Taseer - Former Hostage, 2011-2016
TV and Film Producer - Tony Garnett
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister - Mehmet Simsek
Venezuelan opposition leader - Maria Corina Machado
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
UK Ambassador to the UN (1998-2003) - Sir Jeremy Greenstock
Paolo Gentiloni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Actor Gwyneth Paltrow
Hollywood Composer - Hans Zimmer
Film and TV producer - Tony Garnett
Zimbabwean Minister of Finance - Patrick Chinamasa
Former Speechwriter for US President George W. Bush - David Frum
Former Deputy Prime Minister, UK - Lord Heseltine
Leader of the House of Commons, UK - Chris Grayling
England T20 Cricketer - Michael Yardy
UK Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-2015) - Tom Fletcher
Former world champion boxer Chris Eubank
President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis
Executive Director, IEA - Dr Fatih Birol
Deputy Prime Minister Libya, 2011-2012 - Dr Mustafa Abushagur
British Labour Peer and Kindertransport Refugee - Lord Alf Dubs
Artist and Musician - Brian Eno
Shadow Foreign Secretary, UK - Hilary Benn
Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Germany - Norbert Röttgen
Leader of the Russian Democratic Choice movement - Vladimir Milov
South African Trade Minister - Rob Davies
Human Rights Activist - Raheel Raza
Pakistan's former Foreign Minister - Hina Rabbani Khar
Professor Robert Reich – United States Secretary of Labor, 1993-97
Civil Rights Activist - Rachel Dolezal
Former president, World Anti-Doping Agency - Dick Pound
Chairman and founder of JD Wetherspoon - Tim Martin
IMF Managing Director - Christine Lagarde
US Congresswoman - Donna Edwards (Democrat)
Fahd al Rasheed, CEO King Abdullah Economic City
Musician - John Cale
Composer - Hans Zimmer
Vladimir Chizhov - Russian Ambassador to the EU
Chairman, Intelligence and Security Committee, UK - Dominic Grieve MP
Architect - David Adjaye
The Foreign Minister of Finland, Timo Soini
OSCE Secretary General - Lamberto Zannier
Sevgi Akarçeşme, Editor in Chief "Today's Zaman", Turkey
Lebanon's Education Minister - Elias Bou Saab
Greek Minister of Labour and Social Security - George Katrougalos
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs - Meglena Kuneva
Vice President of Panama - Isabel De Saint Malo De Alvarado
Selim Yenel – Turkey’s Ambassador to the European Union
Former US Democrat Congressman - Anthony Weiner
Janet Napolitano, former US Secretary of Homeland Security
MARTIN SCHULZ, President of the European Parliament
Former Director of the CIA - General Michael Hayden
Kyriakos Mitsotakis – President of New Democracy, Greece
Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Poland - Krzysztof Szczerski
Bassma Kodmani, Syrian opposition negotiator
Fahd al Rasheed
Søren Espersen - Deputy Chairman, Danish People’s Party
Director of Europol - Rob Wainwright
Iyad Ameen Madani, Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation
Prime Minister of Norway - Erna Solberg
Senior Saudi Interior Ministry Official - Major General Mansour al-Turki
Chair of the National Bank of Greece, Louka Katseli
Former UK Foreign Minister - Jack Straw
Chief Executive Cuadrilla Resources - Francis Egan
Former CIA Intelligence Officer - John Kiriakou
France's Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir
Henry Rollins - Musician and Writer
President of the Conservatives for Britain Group - Nigel Lawson
Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Spotlight
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak
Mayor of Jerusalem - Nir Barkat
FGM Activists - Fuambai Ahmadu and Nimco Ali
Nigerian Novelist and Poet - Ben Okri
Neurosurgeon Dr Henry Marsh
Ballet dancer, Sylvie Guillem
International Rugby Union Referee - Nigel Owens
Richard Leakey - Chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service
Writer, Colm Tóibín
Hollywood Actor - Burt Reynolds
Chairman UK Financial Services Authority, 2008 - 2013 - Lord Turner
FIFA presidential candidate, Tokyo Sexwale
Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon
Nobel Prize Winner - Ouided Bouchamaoui
President of Namibia - Hage Geingob
President of Malawi - Peter Mutharika
Monzer Akbik - Syrian National Coalition
Leader of Democratic Green Party, Rwanda - Frank Habineza
President Juan Manuel Santos
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe - Admiral JAMES STAVRIDIS
Brazilian Government Minister, 2003-January 2015 - Celso Amorim
International Rugby Union Referee - Nigel Owens
Journalist and Former Hostage - Nicolas Hénin
Former Labour Government Minister, UK - Lord Mandelson
Secretary General, Palestine Liberation Organisation - Saeb Erekat
Chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service - Richard Leakey
US Ambassador to the UK - Matthew Barzun
Chairman of the US Federal Reserve 2006-2014 - Ben Bernanke
Dmitry Peskov
Yair Lapid - Leader, Yesh Atid Party, Israel
Eric Cantor - former House Majority Leader, US Republican Party
US Ambassador to Syria 2011-2014 - Robert S. Ford
International President of Médecins Sans Frontières - Dr Joanne Liu
Novelist Jonathan Franzen
German Defence Minister - Ursula von der Leyen
Broadcaster - Paul Gambaccini
EU Migration Commissioner - Dimitris Avramopoulos
Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
Former Al Jazeera English Bureau Chief - Mohamed Fahmy
Ayman Asfari - Chief Executive Petrofac Ltd
French Minister of Economy - Emmanuel Macron
Foreign Minister, Hungary - Péter Szijjártó
Crispin Blunt MP
Minister of Defence in Georgia - Tinatin Khidasheli
Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group - Andrew Forrest
Libya's Ambassador to United Arab Emirates - Aref Ali Nayed
Director of The Future of Humanity Institute - Nick Bostrom
HARDtalk Raul Romeva
Catherine McCartney
Barbara Hulanicki, founder of Biba
Foreign Minister of Macedonia - Nikola Poposki
British Labour Politicians - Ken Livingstone and Charles Clarke
Writer and Publisher - Jürgen Todenhöfer
Suha Arafat, Widow of Yasser Arafat
Don McLean, Singer Songwriter
Werner Herzog, Film Director
Irish Author - Colm Tóibín
Hugh Masekela, Musician and Political Activist
James Ellroy - Crime Writer
Leader, Democratic Alliance (South Africa) - Mmusi Maimane
Ballet Dancer Sylvie Guillem
Ertuğrul Kürkçü - Honorary President People’s Democratic Party (HDP)
Calais Migrant Crisis
Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault
Syriza Committee Member - Stathis Kouvelakis
Marc Quinn - Artist
Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency - David Howman
Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative - Bryan Stevenson
Secretary General of Nato - Jens Stoltenberg
Governor of Odessa Region, Ukraine - Mikheil Saakashvili
Former Head of the UN Enquiry - William Schabas
Writer and Publisher - Jürgen Todenhöfer
Founder, WPP - Sir Martin Sorrell
British Conservative MP - Bernard Jenkin
General Secretary of Trade Union Congress, UK - Frances O’Grady
President of the Reform Now Movement, Sudan - Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani
CEO, Russian Organising Committee, World Cup 2018 - Alexei Sorokin
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs - Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Foreign Policy Advisory Group, Chinese Foreign Ministry - Wu Jianmin
Author - Colm Tóibín
UN Special Representative for West Africa - Mohamed Ibn Chambas
25/05/2015 GMT
Political Adviser to the Commander of US Forces in Iraq 2007–2010 - Emma Sky
Minister of Traditional Affairs, South Africa - Pravin Gordhan
18/05/2015 GMT
Colombian High Commissioner for Peace - Sergio Jaramillo
Sir Menzies Campbell, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Pat McFadden
11/05/2015 GMT
Minister of Finance, Portugal - Maria Luís Albuquerque
President of the Council on Foreign Relations - Dr Richard Haass
Irvine Welsh – Author
Founder and Director of Exit International - Philip Nitschke
Economist and Owner of H Robotics - Pippa Malmgren
Chairman of the Israel Labor Party - Isaac Herzog
Director of the Documentary India’s Daughter - Leslee Udwin
Former US Drone Operator - Brandon Bryant
Venezuelan Opposition Politician - Maria Corina Machado
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs - Valerie Amos
Billionaire Businessman - John Caudwell
Music Producer - Nile Rodgers
Hong Kong Democracy Activist - Benny Tai
Venture Capitalist and Philanthropist - Nick Hanauer
General Sir Richard Shirreff
Liberal Democrat Minister for Schools - David Laws
16/03/2015 GMT
Lord Levy
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle
Fund Manager - Neil Woodford
Conservative Peer - Baroness Sayeeda Warsi
Former member of al-Qaeda - Aimen Dean
Scientist - Professor Robert Winston
Michael Fuchs
25/02/2015 GMT
Activist and Rapper Tef Poe
Minister Gebran Bassil
General Assad Durrani
Author Andrey Kurkov
Juan Mendez - the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture
Scientist Anne Glover
Political and Social Activist - Jay Naidoo
Moazzam Begg
Robbie Rogers - Footballer
US Economist Luigi Zingales
Chinese Dissident - Wu'er Kaixi
Werner Herzog
Widow of Yasser Arafat - Suha Arafat
Richard Barrett
Yehuda Glick
Economist - Costas Lapavitsas
Chair of UK Defence Select Committee - Rory Stewart
Scientist - Monica Grady
Director General of the International Red Cross - Yves Daccord
Lord Coe
Sir Antony Sher: Taking the stage
South Africa’s Public Protector - Thuli Madonsela
Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2014 - Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
Author and Columnist - Alaa al-Aswany
Writer and Academic - Cornel West
UN Special Co-ordinator, Middle East Peace Process - Robert Serry
Crime Writer - James Ellroy
Former Senior Adviser to the State Department - Vali Nasr
President of Pakistan, 2001-2008 - Pervez Musharraf
Infectious Diseases Specialist - Geraldine O’Hara
Sir Nicholas Winton
Former Prime Minister of Russia - Mikhail Kasyanov
Tourism Minister, Zimbabwe - Walter Mzembi
President Syrian National Coalition - Hadi al-Bahra
Extra Time: Australian Rules Footballer - Adam Goodes
Former National Security Advisor of Iraq - Mowaffak al-Rubaie
Surgeon and Writer - Atul Gawande
Minister of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone - Abubakarr Fofanah
Guitarist and Founder of Status Quo - Francis Rossi
Nigerian Human Rights Activist - Shehu Sani
Mozilla Executive Chairwoman - Mitchell Baker
Turkish Ambassador to NATO - Mehmet Fatih Ceylan
Former US Ambassador to Iraq - James Jeffrey
Former UN Negotiator - Giandomenico Picco
CEO, Axel Springer - Mathias Döpfner
Joe Hockey MP - Treasurer, Australia
Prime Minister of Finland - Alexander Stubb
CEO, International Rescue Committee - David Miliband
Chief of the Defence Staff, British Armed Forces, 2010-13 - General Lord Richards
Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Professor Peter Piot
EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator - Gilles de Kerchove
Economist - Lord Stern
Opera Singer - Jessye Norman
UK Deputy Prime Minister 1995-1997- Lord Heseltine
Neuroscientist - Professor Susan Greenfield
Chief Prosecutor, ICC, 2003 to 2012 - Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Peter Bofinger - Member of the German Council of Economic Experts
Professor of Geography, University of Oxford - Danny Dorling
Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist - Chrissie Hynde
President of European Commission - Jose Manuel Barroso
President of Ukraine - Petro Poroshenko
President, Georgia - Giorgi Margvelashvili
Ambassador-at-large, Ukraine Foreign Ministry - Olexander Scherba
Political Scientist - Francis Fukuyama
Secretary General, Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive Committee - Yasser Abed Rabbo
Writer and film-maker - Xiaolu Guo
General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK - Bishop Angaelos
Special Assistant to the US Ambassador to Iraq, 2003 - 2009, Ali Khedery
Minister of Intelligence, Israel - Yuval Steinitz
Afghan Presidential Candidate - Abdullah Abdullah
Doctor and Activist - Dr Mads Gilbert
Intelligence and Security Chief, Kurdistan Regional Government - Masrour Barzani
Andrei Konchalovsky – Russian Film Director
Secretary General of NATO - Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Karl von Habsburg
Prime Minister, Moldova - Iurie Leanca
Ama Ata Aidoo - Author
Former Deputy Defence Minister, Israel - Danny Danon
Former Education Minister, Nigeria - Obiageli Ezekwesili
Naturalist and Wildlife Film-maker - Chris Packham
Lord High Chancellor, 2003 – 2007 - Lord Falconer
Thomas Piketty - Economist
Swedish Foreign Minister - Carl Bildt
Adviser to Israel Prime Minister - Dore Gold
Mohamoud Nur - Mayor of Mogadishu, 2010 - 2014
Economic Historian - Deirdre McCloskey
Salih Muslim Mohammed – Democratic Union Party, Syria
War Correspondent - Anthony Loyd
Governor, Central Bank of Ireland - Patrick Honohan
Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation - Aubrey De Grey
CEO, EasyJet - Carolyn McCall
Photographer - David LaChapelle
British Foreign Secretary, 2001 – 2006 - Jack Straw
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Author
Senior Adviser to Nigeria’s President - Doyin Okupe
Ugandan Opposition Leader - Kizza Besigye
Advisor to the Presidential Administration of Russia, 2001 to 2013 - Professor Sergey Karaganov
Actor - Viggo Mortensen
Foreign Minister, Estonia - Urmas Paet
President of South Sudan - Salva Kiir Mayardit
US Assistant Secretary of State - Victoria Nuland
Deputy Information Minister, Zimbabwe - Supa Mandiwanzira
Former Vice President of South Sudan - Riek Machar
Co-founder, Free Belarus Theatre - Natalia Kaliada
Nobel Literature Laureate - Wole Soyinka
Minister for Communications, Australia - Malcolm Turnbull
Economist - Jeremy Rifkin
Foreign Minister, Yemen - Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
Presidential Adviser, Syrian National Coalition - Rime Allaf
Anti-Apartheid Activist - Ahmed Kathrada
French Fashion Designer - Jean Paul Gaultier
Brazilian Film-maker - Jose Padilha
Campaigning Widow of Pat Finucane - Geraldine Finucane
Former British Army Officer - Major Richard Streatfeild
Brazilian Environment Minister - Izabella Teixeria
Mining CEO - Daphne Mashile Nkosi
Musician and Former Child Solider - Emmanuel Jal
Suspended Head of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) - Zwelinzima Vavi
President of Zambia (1964 -1991) - Kenneth Kaunda
Artistic Director/Lead Principal, English National Ballet - Tamara Rojo
Chairman, China International Capital Corporation - Jin Liqun
President of Bulgaria - Rosen Plevneliev
Spokesman for Vladimir Putin - Dmitry Peskov
Artist - Ai Weiwei
Founder, Defense Distributed - Cody Wilson
Foreign Minister of Poland - Radoslaw Sikorski
Premier of the Cayman Islands - Alden McLaughlin
Jerry Springer: Does he care about his show's reputation?
President, US National Rifle Association, 2011 - 13 - David Keene
Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania - Lazaro Nyalandu
Daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko - Eugenia Tymoshenko
Minister for Economy, Israel - Naftali Bennett
Kenyan Author - Binyavanga Wainaina
Palestinian Authority Chief Negotiator - Saeb Erekat
Chairman Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars - Dieter Zetsche
Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault
Wimbledon Champion 2013 - Marion Bartoli
President, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace - Cardinal Peter Turkson
British Foreign Secretary - William Hague
Secretary, All India Progressive Women’s Association - Kavita Krishnan
Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq for Energy - Hussain Al-Shahristani
Archbishop of Canterbury - Justin Welby
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir - Omar Abdullah
Finance Minister of India - Palaniappan Chidambaram
Finance Minister of Cyprus - Harris Georgiades
Former Minister, Freedom and Justice Party, Egypt - Yehia Hamed
British Energy and Climate Change Secretary - Ed Davey
US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011 - Robert Gates
President of the European Court of Human Rights - Dean Spielmann
UN Rapporteur, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights - Ben Emmerson QC
Director of Public Prosecutions, 2008–2013 - Keir Starmer QC
Giles Duley – Photographer
CEO, Syngenta - Mike Mack
World Champion Cyclist - Mark Cavendish
Artist Jeremy Deller
Chairman and CEO of Total- Christophe de Margerie
Douglas Alexander – Labour Chief Foreign Policy Spokesman
Director General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - Ahmet Üzümcü
South African Rugby Team Captain, 1993 - 1996: Francois Pienaar
Republican Senator, Florida - Marco Rubio
Martin Schulz
EU Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner - Laszlo Andor
Journalist - Glenn Greenwald
Ukrainian Businessman and Politician - Petro Poroshenko
Medical Ethicist - Julian Savulescu
Performer and Mental Health Campaigner - Ruby Wax
Philosopher - Roberto Unger
Medical Director, Akanksha Infertility Clinic, India - Dr Nayna Patel
CEO, Eni - Paolo Scaroni
11/11/2013 GMT
Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria - Lamido Sanusi
Minister of Intelligence, Israel - Yuval Steinitz
Olympic and America’s Cup Winning Sailor - Sir Ben Ainslie
Italian Politician - Emma Bonino
Founder of Affective Computing, MIT - Rosalind Picard
Conflict-zone Surgeon - David Nott
Pavel Khodorkovsky
Film Director - Paul Greengrass
Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, UK - Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP
Reza Pahlavi Monday 14th October
Chief Executive of NHS England - Sir David Nicholson
Egyptian Author and Activist - Ahdaf Soueif
Chairman, Indian Cricket Premier League, 2008 – 2010 - Lalit Modi
Adviser to Former British PM Gordon Brown, 2005 – 2009 - Damian McBride
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran, 2009-2010 - John Limbert
Author and Counter-insurgency Expert - David Kilcullen
Greece Minister of Health - Adonis Georgiadis
Chairman, Professional Footballers’ Association - Clarke Carlisle
Musician - Roger Waters
Samantha Geimer
Freedom and Justice Party MP, Egypt - Abdul Mawgoud Dardery
Garry Kasparov - Opposition Activist and Former World Chess Champion
Prime Minister of Italy - Enrico Letta
Former Adviser to President Obama - Peter Blair Henry
Raffaele Sollecito
Prime Minister of France (2005 – 2007) - Dominique de Villepin
Actor, Writer and Director - Steven Berkoff
Secretary General of the Arab League (2001- 2011) - Amr Moussa
Former Bishop of Edinburgh - Richard Holloway
Greek Finance Minister, 2009 - 2011, George Papaconstantinou
UN Representative, Syrian Coalition - Najib Ghabian
Britain's Former Chancellor, Alistair Darling
Professor of Physiology, Maastricht University - Mark Post
International Human Rights Lawyer - Payam Akhavan
Interim President, ANC Youth League, South Africa - Mzwandile Masina
Egypt Foreign Minister - Nabil Fahmy
Composer - Sir John Tavener
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Opera Singer - Thomas Hampson
Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria - Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
Iraq Foreign Minister - Hoshyar Zebari
General Secretary of the GMB Union - Paul Kenny
Prime Minister-Designate, Albania - Edi Rama
UK Conservative MP - David Davis
Chief Executive, Soho China - Zhang Xin
Mustafa Akyol and Dina Wahba
Greek Minister for Public Order - Nikos Dendias
Afghanistan Minister of Finance - Dr Omar Zakhilwal
Head of the Afghan National Army - General Sher Mohammad Karimi
Black Sabbath Guitarist - Tony Iommi
Chief Justice of South Africa - Mogoeng Mogoeng
Sergei Guriev – Russian Economist
Michael Sandel – Political Philosopher
Mehmet Simsek - Finance Minister, Turkey
Ayad Allawi – Former Prime Minister of Iraq
Martin Amis – Author
Ivo Daalder, US Permanent Representative to NATO
Mo Ibrahim – Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Jean-François Copé – President, UMP Party, France
Pierre Krähenbühl - Director of Operations, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Robert Fowler - Former UN Special Representative to Niger
Lindiwe Mazibuko - Leader of the Opposition in the South African Parliament
Harold Koh - Legal Adviser, US State Department 2009-13
John Kerry, US Secretary of State
Zoran Milanovic – Prime Minister, Croatia
Sir Alan Parker - Film Director
Alan Johnson – UK Home Secretary 2009 – 2010
Thomas Drake – Former Senior Executive, US National Security Agency
Zainab Bangura - UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Pravin Gordhan – Finance Minister, South Africa
Lord Patten - Chairman of the BBC Trust
Lord Browne – Chief Executive BP (1995 – 2007)
Jonathan Miller – Theatre and Opera Director
Ioannis Kasoulides – Foreign Minister of Cyprus
Carlos Gutierrez - US Secretary of Commerce 2005 – 2009
Christine Lagarde – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Mathieu Kassovitz - Actor and Director
Steffen Kampeter – Deputy Finance Minister, Germany
Jeremy Irons - Actor
Lord Maurice Saatchi - UK Conservative Party Chairman (2003-2005)
Sir John Holmes - Former UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator
Mimoza Kusari-Lila - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Industry, Kosovo
Patrick Chinamasa - Justice Minister of Zimbabwe
Daniel Dennett – Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist
Major General Robert Mood - Former Head of UN Supervision Mission in Syria
Alassane Ouattara - President of Ivory Coast
Kishore Mahbubani - Author and former diplomat
Gareth Thomas - Former Wales Rugby Captain
Victor Ponta - Prime Minister of Romania
Kenneth Clarke - Conservative Government Minister, UK
Theodor Meron - President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Moncef Marzouki - President of Tunisia
Lord Bilimoria – Founder and Chairman, Cobra Beer
Timo Soini - Leader, The Finns Party
Henry Winkler - Actor
AB Yehoshua - Author
Father Bernard Lynch - Priest and Psychotherapist
Gloria Steinem – Feminist activist and author
Jon Huntsman - Republican Presidential Candidate 2011
Mamphela Ramphele - Politician and academic
Enrique Garcia - President - CAF - Development Bank of Latin America
Lucinda Creighton - Minister for European Affairs
Fernando Carrera – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hossein Mousavian - Iranian Nuclear Negotiator
Mohammad Jawad - Plastic Surgeon
Renzo Piano - Architect
Lord Ouseley – Chairman, Kick It Out
Paul Bhatti – Minister in Charge of National Harmony, Pakistan
Mark Lynas - pro-GM campaigner
Nigel Sheinwald - UK Ambassador to the US (2007 - 2012)
Mohamed El-Erian – CEO, PIMCO
Doreen Lawrence
Pascal Lamy – Director General, World Trade Organisation
Kiran Bedi - Senior Female Police Officer in India
Joaquin Almunia – EU Competition Commissioner
Rupert Everett - actor
Lord Heseltine – Former British Deputy Prime Minister
Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist
Fatih Birol – Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Ian Thorpe - Australian Swimmer
Alan Moore - Graphic Novelist
Philip Glass - Composer
Brooke Magnanti - Belle du Jour
Lewis Moody - Former England Rugby Captain
Sir Geoffrey Nice QC - Barrister
Naguib Sawiris – Businessman and Founder, Free Egyptians Party
Sima Samar – Chairperson, Afghan Human Rights Commission
Leila Shahid – Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the EU
Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government
José Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission
Carlos Ghosn - CEO of Renault-Nissan
Mike Newell - film director
Peter Voser - CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
Jeh Johnson- General Counsel, US Department of Defense
Michael Woodford - Former CEO, Olympus
Frans Baleni - General Secretary, South African National Union of Mineworkers
Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International
Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister of Syria
Vandana Shiva, environmentalist
James Cracknell - former Olympic rower
Radoslaw Sikorski - Foreign Minister of Poland
Leonid Kozhara - Foreign Policy Advisor to the Ukrainian President
Hisham Qandil - Prime Minister, Egypt
Andreas Mavroyiannis, Deputy Minister for European Affairs for Cyprus
Bob Shrum, Democratic Party Consultant and Campaign Strategist
Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform
Conrad Black - Former CEO of Hollinger International
Richard Thaler - Behavioural economist
Connie Hedegaard - European Commissioner for Climate Action
Bernard Cazeneuve - Minister delegate for European Affairs, France
Michael O’Leary, Ryanair Chief Executive
William Ruto: Kenyan Presidential Candidate
03/10/2012 GMT
Otmar Issing – European Central Bank Board, 1998 – 2006
Jack Abramoff - Former US lobbyist
Guy Verhofstadt and Richard Ashworth – Members of The European Parliament
Ashti Hawrami - Minister for Natural Resources, Kurdistan Regional Government
Professor Welshman Ncube
Hans-Werner Sinn - German economist
Felipe Larrain - Finance Minister of Chile
Pyotr Verzilov - Russian artist and political activist
Tyler Hamilton - Former professional cyclist
Maryam Al Khawaja - Bahraini Human Rights Activist
Xavier Rolet - Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange Group
Raymond Tshibanda - Minister for Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of Congo
Tarek al-Hashimi - Vice President of Iraq
Brian Sayers – Syrian Support Group
Maajid Nawaz - Chairman of Quilliam, counter extremisim organisation
Rob Davies - South Africa's Minister for Trade and Industry
Angélique Kidjo - Musician and Activist
Lord Hanningfield - Former Conservative Peer
Lord Moynihan - Chairman of the British Olympics Association
Sharon Bowles - Chair, EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
Michael Barber - Chief Education Advisor, Pearson PLC
Mark Carney - Governor of Canada's Central Bank
Nigel Farage - Leader of the UK Independence Party
Amos Gilad – Director of Policy, Israeli Ministry of Defence
Sheikh Hasina - Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Extratime: Nawal El Moutawakel -Member of the International Olympic Committee
Arnold Ekpe - CEO Ecobank Transnational Inc
Extratime: Jonathan Edwards - Olympic triple jump gold medallist
20/07/2012 GMT
James Robinson - Professor of Government, Harvard University
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Astrophysicist
Paul Kagame - President of Rwanda
Karel De Gucht - European Commissioner for Trade
Femi Kuti - Musician and Activist
Ghazi Hamad – Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister
Professor Niall Ferguson - Historian
Lynton Crosby - Political Strategist
Helle Thorning-Schmidt - Denmark's Prime Minister
Gehad El-Haddad - Senior Political Advisor, Freedom and Justice Party
Dr. Steve Peters - Psychiatrist working in elite sport
Beeban Kidron - Film Director
Chuka Umunna - UK Shadow Business Secretary
Meir Dagan - Director of Mossad (2002-2010)
Wayne McGregor - Choreographer
Ali Asghar Soltanieh - Iran's ambassador, International Atomic Energy Agency
Paul McKeever - Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi - President Elect, International Aids Society
Tracey Emin - Artist
Sir Tim Rice - Lyricist, writer and composer
Paul Krugman - Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, 2008
Yiannis Milios – Economic Advisor of the Syriza Party, Greece
Bruce Dickinson - Singer, Iron Maiden
Robin Gibb - The Bee Gees
Grigory Yavlinsky - Co-Founder Yabloko Party, Russia
GUY SCOTT – Vice President of Zambia
Louis Saha - French footballer
Michalis Sarris – Chairman, Cyprus Popular Bank
Sir William Patey – British Ambassador to Kabul, 2010-2012 (Retired)
Nasser Judeh - Jordan's Foreign Minister
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN – Political scientist
09/05/2012 GMT
NHIAL DENG NHIAL – Foreign Minister, South Sudan
Sir JOHN SULSTON – Nobel Prize-winning scientist
OLEG DERIPASKA – Chief Executive, RUSAL
ZOE WANAMAKER – Actor
PETER KEEN - Director of Performance, UK Sport
FW de Klerk
Paul Conroy - Photographer
Ali Dizaei - London Metropolitan Police Superintendent
Michael Frayn - Writer
Hamid Al-Bayati - Iraqi Ambassador to the UN
Juergen Stark - Former member, Executive Board of the European Central Bank
Sir Alan Ayckbourn - British Playwright
Nabeel Rajab - President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
Len McCluskey - Leader of Unite, Britain's biggest union
Frank Chikane - South African Head of Presidency, 1999 - 2009
Sir Mark Walport - Director, Wellcome Trust
Aimee Mullins – Athlete, actor and model
Otis Williams - The Temptations
Mohamed Waheed - President of the Maldives
Abdel El-Menway - Former Head of Egyptian TV
Said Ferjani - Ennahda political party, Tunisia
Moncef Marzouki - President of Tunisia
Jacqueline Wilson - Children's author
Nana Akufo-Addo - Ghanaian presidential candidate
Egemen Bagis - Turkey's Chief EU Negotiator
David Miliband - UK Foreign Secretary 2007-2010
Georges Chikoti - Angolan Foreign Minister
Yoweri Museveni - President of Uganda
Eugenia Tymoshenko - Daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko
Fawzia Koofi
Sir Clive Woodward - Director of Sport, British Olympic Association
Paul Volcker - Former US Federal Reserve chairman
John McCain - US Senator
John Fahey - President, World Anti-Doping Agency
Hilde Johnson - UN Special Rep in South Sudan
05/02/2012 GMT
Mary King - British Olympic Equestrian
Dr Gene Sharp - Political Theorist
Edwin Cameron - South African Constitutional Court Judge
Gus O'Donnell - Former Head of UK Civil Service
Sir Patrick Stewart
Wadah Khanfar - Former Director General, Al Jazeera
Steve McQueen
Bassma Kodmani
Zoltan Kovacs - Hungarian Minister of State for Government Communication
Cheng Siwei - Former Vice Chairman, Standing Committee, NPC, China
Olli Rehn - European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs
Dr Devi Shetty - Indian heart surgeon