Sir Vartan Melkonian: From Beirut street child to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Interview2 Huhti 2021

Sir Vartan Melkonian: From Beirut street child to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Vartan Melkonian began his life as an Armenian refugee in Lebanon, spending his early years in an orphanage outside Beirut, followed by living rough on the streets for many years. He is now a renowned musician, conductor and composer. Zeinab Badawi hears his remarkable story.

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Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary

Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary

Stephen Sackur speaks to Andrew Forrest, an Australian billionaire mining magnate who is using a chunk of his fortune to push a green, hydrogen-based energy solution. In the run up to the Glasgow clim...

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Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying

Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying

Stephen Sackur speaks to brain surgeon Henry Marsh whose book “Do No Harm” became a bestseller. Now he is confronting his own advanced cancer, and lobbying for the legislation of assisted dying for th...

19 Loka 202122min

Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?

Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?

When the first Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals came to an end, the ground-breaking international tribunal handed down 12 death sentences. Seventy-five years on, is the world any better at delive...

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Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US

Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US

Stephen Sackur speaks to Adela Raz, still officially Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States, though the Taliban disowns her and the Americans ignore her. In the face of a looming humanitarian c...

15 Loka 202122min

Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security

Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security

Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. Moscow is set to be a major beneficiary of the extraordinary spike in fossil fuel energy prices - does that mean Moscow will f...

13 Loka 202124min

Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet

Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet

Do we understand the urgency of the global biodiversity and climate change crisis? Stephen Sackur speaks to the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Richard Deverell. Kew Gardens in London is...

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Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?

Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?

From Covid to climate change, governments around the world face challenges which demand modifications of human behaviour. When it comes to getting people to do things differently, what works best: the...

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Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials

Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials

Seventy-five years after the Nuremberg Military Tribunals convicted some of the most senior Nazis of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the last surviving prosecutor from the trials, Ben Ferencz ...

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