Pascal Lamy – Director General, World Trade Organisation
As head of the World Trade Organisation for the past eight years, Pascal Lamy has been leading the crusade for global free trade. The so called Doha round of negotiations designed to spread free trade...
21 Jan 201323min
Kiran Bedi - Senior Female Police Officer in India
The brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi last month has prompted India to confront a disturbing truth: the country is failing to protect women from sexual violence. Kiran Bedi has see...
18 Jan 201323min
Joaquin Almunia – EU Competition Commissioner
EU officials in Brussels insist the worst of the Eurozone crisis is over; but is that relief premature? Europe's debt mountain still casts a long shadow. Rising unemployment is fuelling anger on the s...
16 Jan 201323min
Rupert Everett - actor
Rupert Everett achieved success in his early twenties through his acclaimed lead role in Another Country and Dance With A Stranger.But much of this success was lost in a haze of sexual promiscuity and...
14 Jan 201323min
Lord Heseltine – Former British Deputy Prime Minister
Half way through its parliamentary term Britain’s Conservative-led coalition government has a growth problem - the economy is flat; possibly heading for a triple dip recession. But how does a governme...
11 Jan 201323min
Mona Eltahawy – Writer and Activist
Arabs have risen up against their repressive authoritarian rulers, but what will their post-revolutionary societies look like? In Egypt and Tunisia, power has shifted in the direction of political Isl...
9 Jan 201323min
Fatih Birol – Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Not so long ago it seemed the world’s addiction to fossil fuels would soon be ended by dwindling supply. But that was before fracking, tar sands and deep sea exploration transformed calculations abou...
9 Jan 201323min
Ian Thorpe - Australian Swimmer
Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression. (Image: Ian Thorpe, Credit: Getty Images)
4 Jan 201323min
