Nigel Farage - Leader of the UK Independence Party
As another wave of financial fear sweeps through the Eurozone, with Spain seemingly staggering towards a bail out and Italy not far behind, the voices of the continents Eurosceptics grow louder. Most ...
5 Elo 201223min
Amos Gilad – Director of Policy, Israeli Ministry of Defence
Zeinab Badawi talks to Amos Gilad, Policy Director at the Israeli Ministry of Defence. Is the Arab Spring a blessing or a disaster for Israel?Upheaval in the Arab world, especially in Syria, means pol...
31 Heinä 201223min
Sheikh Hasina - Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina has been Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the last three and a half years. It’s her second term in office and throughout her time at the top she’s attracted controversy and criticism in ...
29 Heinä 201223min
Extratime: Nawal El Moutawakel -Member of the International Olympic Committee
At the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 a diminutive Moroccan runner named Nawal El Moutawakel won the 400 metres hurdles and so became the first Arab and Muslim woman to win Olympic gold. She says her vi...
27 Heinä 201223min
Arnold Ekpe - CEO Ecobank Transnational Inc
Six of the world's ten fastest growing economies are in Sub- Saharan Africa. The World Bank predicts a decade of African growth which Europe can only dream of, but how realistic is the excitable talk ...
24 Heinä 201223min
Extratime: Jonathan Edwards - Olympic triple jump gold medallist
More than 10,000 athletes are about to compete at the London Olympics. The spotlight will certainly be on them but one former champion, Jonathan Edwards, will take a particular interest. He won Olympi...
23 Heinä 201223min
20/07/2012 GMT
Baaba Maal is maintaining a West African tradition: he is an internationally renowned musician with a strong political voice, like Fela Kuti and Youssou N'Dour before him. His campaigning touches on s...
19 Heinä 201223min
James Robinson - Professor of Government, Harvard University
Stephen Sackur speaks to the renowned Harvard academic James Robinson. In a recent book, written together with Daron Acemoglu, he tries to answer one of the most basic questions of global economics an...
18 Heinä 201223min
