New York hit by double shock
Gideon Rachman talks to the FT's Gillian Tett about New Yorkers' battle to contain the coronavirus pandemic and the shock to the US financial system that the virus has carried in its wake. Hosted on A...
1 Apr 202015min
Life in Europe's coronavirus hotspots
Foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman discusses how the coronavirus epidemic has been handled in Italy and Spain with the local FT correspondents, Miles Johnson in Rome and Daniel Dombey in Madrid....
25 Mar 202017min
Pandemics in the age of hyperconnectivity
In this week's Rachman Review, Gideon Rachman speaks to Ian Goldin of Oxford University - an economist who has long warned of the dangers of pandemics. Professor Goldin explains his theory of "the but...
18 Mar 202018min
How Saudi Arabia and Iran's rivalry is unravelling the Middle East
Why has the Middle East been in turmoil for decades? Author Kim Ghattas argues that the contest for supremacy between the Saudis and the Iranians is key to understanding the region's troubles. In conv...
11 Mar 202019min
Human rights under threat from politics
Gideon Rachman talks to Andrew Gilmour, former UN assistant secretary-general for human rights about the increase in human rights violations over the past ten years and the UN ambassadors and countrie...
4 Mar 202021min
How is Modi's ideology shaping Indian society?
The ideology shaping India today is markedly different from the time of its first post-independence prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Narendra Modi and his Bharitaya Janata Party, the BJP, are leading...
26 Feb 202015min
Is there a Democrat that can beat Trump?
With the Democratic primaries underway and Super Tuesday on the horizon this week's episode takes a look at the US presidential election. Is there a Democratic frontrunner? Can we predict how the publ...
19 Feb 202020min
Bolsonaro’s isolationism and deference to Trump
Celso Amorim, who served as foreign minister under former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, talks to Gideon Rachman about Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power, his subordination to the US and w...
12 Feb 202016min
