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2024-11-15

  Sir Steve McQueen: The power of film

Stephen Sackur speaks to Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of films including 12 Years a Slave and Widows. Much of his work has portrayed racial injustice, and his latest film, Blitz, tells the story of a black boy caught up in war-torn London ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-11-13

  Farah Nabulsi: Challenging imbalance in value of human life

Stephen Sackur speaks to British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi. Her latest film, The Teacher, is set in the West Bank and invites audiences to see and feel the Palestinian experience in intimate, human and emotional detail; but is that possible i...
  BBC World Service author
2024-11-11

  Edmund Bartlett: Does Jamaica have a security problem?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Jamaica's minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett. While the island nation projects itself to the world as a Caribbean success story, its reputation is being tarnished by violent crime, drugs and gang warfare. What will it take to...
  BBC World Service author
2024-11-08

  Jason Jones: How can you change cultural attitudes?

Allan Little speaks to the Trinidadian human rights activist Jason Jones. He is campaigning to legalise consensual sex for homosexuals on his native island, and hopes that the case will have repercussions for similar laws in other countries. But will i...
  BBC World Service author
2024-11-04

  Andrei Kelin: Is Vladimir Putin reshaping geopolitics?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia’s ambassador in London, Andrei Kelin. Thanks to the war in Ukraine and allegations of Russian hybrid warfare in Europe and beyond, diplomatic relations between Moscow and the West are poisonous. Is Vladimir Putin right t...
  BBC World Service author
2024-11-01

  Fred Fleitz: What would Donald Trump's foreign policy look like?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Fred Fleitz, a national security official in Donald Trump’s first administration, tipped for a new foreign policy role if Trump returns to power. If Vice President Kamala Harris represents foreign policy continuity, what would ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-10-30

  Diane Foley: Bringing detained Americans home

Stephen Sackur talks to Diane Foley, whose son James was kidnapped by the Islamic State group and murdered in 2014. She’s spent a decade coming to terms with that and campaigning to get other detained Americans home.
  BBC World Service author
2024-10-28

  Chris Murphy: Is Kamala Harris a candidate for change?

Stephen Sackur is in Washington DC to speak to Democratic Party Senator Chris Murphy. In the final days of an eye-wateringly close presidential election campaign, how can Vice President Kamala Harris convince Americans that she and the Democrats stand ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-10-23

  John Bolton: Donald Trump’s former national security adviser

Stephen Sackur is in Washington DC to speak to Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton. With the election looming, Bolton calls his former boss a danger to America. But he won’t back Kamala Harris either. Is America too divided to o...
  BBC World Service author
2024-10-21

  Frank Skinner: What unites his many sides?

Stephen Sackur speaks to stand-up comedian, and broadcaster Frank Skinner, who also happens to be a writer on poetry, religion and much more. Football and sex were, and are, the staples of much of his humour, but he’s never been a one-trick pony. What ...
  BBC World Service author