Andris Sprūds: Is Latvia on a war footing?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Latvia’s defence minister Andris Sprūds. He wants to ramp up military support for Ukraine, and he backs Kyiv’s dramatic push into Russian territory. But will divisions inside ...
30 Aug 202422min
Neil Lawrence: Being human in the age of the machine
Stephen Sackur speaks to leading artificial intelligence researcher Neil Lawrence. He’s Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and has a Senior AI Fellowship at the Alan Turing I...
28 Aug 202423min
Nicola Procaccini: How has hard-right rule changed Italy?
Stephen Sackur is in Rome to talk to Nicola Procaccini, an MEP and confidant of Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. When her nationalist Brothers of Italy party took power, it sent shock waves through Euro...
25 Aug 202422min
Olha Stefanishyna: Does Ukraine's Russia offensive make sense?
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Ministers, Olha Stefanishyna. Kyiv’s military offensive inside Russia has shifted the dynamic in what looked like a war of attrition tilting in M...
21 Aug 202422min
Karuna Nundy: Human rights and justice in India
Stephen Sackur speaks to the prominent Indian lawyer Karuna Nundy. She has been at the forefront of long battles to better protect women from sexual violence, legalise gay marriage and safeguard freed...
19 Aug 202422min
Shannon Watts: Will the votes of white women swing the Trump-Harris race?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Shannon Watts, an American political activist who built a powerful women-led gun control movement and is now a fund-raiser for Kamala Harris. Why does she believe the votes of...
16 Aug 202422min
Pavel Latushka: Can change in Belarus only come with change in Moscow?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Pavel Latushka, a key figure in the opposition movement struggling for regime change in Belarus. The country’s authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko is a staunch ally of Vl...
14 Aug 202422min
Ian Goldin: Is migration a drag or a driver of progress?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the renowned economist Ian Goldin, who wants to reframe the debate around migration. He’s been a senior official at the World Bank, an economic adviser to Nelson Mandela and h...
12 Aug 202423min
