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
The global politics of climate change
Gideon Rachman talks to historian Adam Tooze about his forthcoming book on the origins of the climate crisis and the prospects for international agreement to curb emissions and avert disaster. Hosted ...
5 Feb 202019min
'Let's just get out of there' is not a strategy
General John Allen, head of the Brookings Institution and former Nato forces commander, talks to Gideon Rachman about the importance of clear objectives and staying power in the Middle East and Afghan...
29 Jan 202018min
Taiwan treads fine line between democracy and China
In the wake of Tsai Ing-Wen’s re-election as President of Taiwan, Gideon Rachman discusses the Asian island's future ties with China and the rest of the world with Shelley Rigger, a professor at David...
22 Jan 202019min
