Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?
The Interview6 Jan 2021

Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?

Stephen Sackur speaks to British epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson, whose early modelling of Covid-19 made him an influential advocate of the lockdown strategy. The UK is back in lockdown and infections are surging. What has gone wrong, and why have other countries done better?

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Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers

Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Dr Gwen Adshead, a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has spent more than three decades trying to treat some of the UK’s most violent offenders. Why does she urge co...

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Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?

Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was chief rabbi of Moscow until he fled Russia after the Ukraine invasion and left his post. His fate has exposed the scale of wider Jewish flight fro...

29 Aug 202224min

Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?

Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Olga Rudenko, chief editor of the Kyiv Independent - set up by Ukrainian journalists to hold their government to account. Is there room for independent journalism when Ukraine...

25 Aug 202223min

Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?

Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the artist Sir Peter Blake, whose work came to define the freshness and optimism of the 1960s. Now aged 90, he is still painting. What keeps his creativity alive?

22 Aug 202223min

Krišjānis Kariņš: Is Latvia still vulnerable?

Krišjānis Kariņš: Is Latvia still vulnerable?

Stephen Sackur is in Riga to speak to the Prime Minister of Latvia, Krišjānis Kariņš. Latvia is now an established member of the EU and NATO, but Putin’s Ukraine invasion has revived fears of Russian ...

18 Aug 202222min

George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear

George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear

Humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. How do we feed a global population heading towards ten billion? Can it be done without degrading ecosystems and exacerbating climate change ...

17 Aug 202223min

Shon Faye: The transgender issue

Shon Faye: The transgender issue

According to research in the US and the UK, roughly one in 100 may be transgender. But the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political battleground isn’t driven so much by the...

15 Aug 202223min

Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?

Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former First Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh, now a leader of the resistance dedicated to overthrowing the Taliban. A year after the Islamists returned to pow...

12 Aug 202224min

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