Timothy Snyder: Lessons from history
Stephen Sackur speaks to Timothy Snyder, renowned American historian of totalitarianism and the Holocaust, about the Trump presidency. Professor Snyder believes the former US president and his movemen...
22 Feb 202123min
Douglas Stuart: Stories of tender souls in tough places
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Booker prize-winning author Douglas Stuart. His novel, Shuggie Bain, centres on a boy growing up amid poverty, addiction and intolerance in Glasgow. There are deep paralle...
19 Feb 202124min
Yogendra Yadav: Are farmers' protests a defining moment for India?
Thousands of Indian farmers are keeping up their long-running protest against farm law reform. Stephen Sackur interviews Yogendra Yadav, leader of the Swaraj Party and prominent backer of the farmers’...
17 Feb 202123min
Kirill Dmitriev: Russia's Sputnik V a vaccine for humankind?
Right now the world is seeing two sides of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The one he wants you to see is the scientifically advanced nation offering the world an effective Covid vaccine known as Sputnik V. ...
15 Feb 202124min
Clément Beaune: Is Covid-19 exposing weaknesses in the EU?
Stephen Sackur speaks to France’s Europe Minister, Clément Beaune. The European Union faces a huge Covid challenge. The vaccine rollout has been slow, internal free movement is a concern, and tensions...
12 Feb 202122min
Laurie Santos: Can we learn how to be happy?
Stephen Sackur speaks to American psychologist Professor Laurie Santos, whose work at Yale University on the science of happiness has won her an audience of millions thanks to her podcast and free onl...
10 Feb 202122min
Evan Medeiros: How should Biden approach China?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Evan Medeiros, who was President Obama’s top adviser on China policy. Under Donald Trump, US-China relations soured dramatically. A potentially dangerous era of competition an...
8 Feb 202123min
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Has Belarus’s revolution stalled?
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says she won last year’s presidential election in Belarus, and she is still intent on toppling Europe’s last de-facto dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. After months of protests ...
5 Feb 202122min
