Ai Weiwei: Huawei, Hong Kong and being an artist in exile
China's rise to economic superpower status has not brought with it an opening up of politics or culture. Far from it. The Communist Party has intensified its efforts to suppress dissent of all kinds. ...
5 Feb 202024min
Lauri Love: The realities of cyber security
Stephen Sackur speaks to the accused computer hacker Lauri Love. For nations, corporations and all of us as individuals, the age of the internet has heightened vulnerability. Information and data - th...
3 Feb 202024min
Jean-Claude Juncker: What's next for the EU and Britain?
Britain is at an historic fork in the road - taking the UK in a new direction, and maybe Europe too. Many on both sides didn't think it would come to this, even after Britain's Brexit vote in 2016. Bu...
31 Jan 202054min
Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?
Since September 2019, bush fires in Australia have consumed 10 million hectares of land – an area almost the size of England. People have died, homes have been destroyed. The annual season of fires ha...
29 Jan 202023min
Mindu Hornick: Don't let Auschwitz memories erode
It’s 75 years since allied troops entered the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The very word Auschwitz still stirs a unique level of horror. It was the place where Hitler’s genocide of European Jewry was...
27 Jan 202024min
Don Bacon: Will Republicans regret their loyalty to Trump?
Perhaps it’s misleading to describe the unfolding events in the US Senate as the ‘impeachment trial’ of Donald Trump. After all, this is a process which may well avoid witness testimony, exclude key d...
24 Jan 202024min
Alexander Blackman: How should crimes on the battlefield be handled?
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to take steps to protect military personnel from what he describes as vexatious legal claims. It’s a controversial stance as armed conflicts, from Northern...
22 Jan 202023min
Tony Garnett: Making TV with a radical purpose
The British film and TV producer Tony Garnett died last week, aged 83. In 2016 Stephen Sackur spoke to him about his life and pioneering work which began in the 1960s. The subject matter he tackled in...
20 Jan 202023min
