How much trouble is Bolsonaro in?
Gideon talks to Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas foundation in São Paulo about Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro. His government’s failure to tackle the co...
15 Jul 202119min
South Africa’s pivotal moment
Gideon talks to Judith February, South African lawyer and journalist, about the case against former president Jacob Zuma. His refusal to cooperate with an inquiry into corruption during his nine years...
8 Jul 202121min
Can Germany atone for its colonial-era genocide?
Gideon speaks to Esther Muinjangue, a former chair of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation, and Franziska Boehme, a professor of political science, about the decades-long journey towards official recogni...
1 Jul 202121min
Coming to terms with Putin's Russia
Gideon talks to Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution about the recent US-Russia summit and what the former presidential adviser sees as the best way to deal with a state 'run by operatives' who don...
24 Jun 202126min
Martin Wolf on G7 opportunities missed
Gideon talks to Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, about the pressing problems requiring international co-operation, and asks him if, in light of the G7 summit, the west is up to the t...
17 Jun 202119min
Can Asian prosperity survive US-China rivalry?
South-east Asia has enjoyed a long period of sustained economic growth. But is this endangered by rising tensions between the US and China? Gideon puts this question to James Crabtree, executive direc...
10 Jun 202121min
Belarus: more than a moral dilemma
The decision by Belarus to divert a plane to Minsk to arrest a dissident journalist was intended to send a message to opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko, whose 27 years in office have seen hi...
3 Jun 202122min
Washington’s will to find a Middle East solution
A ceasefire is in place and an 11-day war is over, but that may not move Israelis and Palestinians closer to a two-state solution according to Martin Indyk, of the Council on Foreign Relations. Indyk ...
27 Mai 202122min
