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  • Suhasini Haidar on Modi’s Challenges: Trump Abroad and Gen Z at Home

    October 23, 2026 · 39 min

    India’s “Cockroach” protests have returned to the streets of Delhi, and just as the country faces intensifying challenges from abroad, including fallout from the Iran war and tensions with the US, China and Pakistan. In a conversation on…

  • Rory McIlroy on His Secret Goal, Trump and the Future of Golf

    October 20, 2026 · 29 min

    In this conversation recorded at Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum in New Delhi, Mishal Husain talks to Rory McIlroy about his career as one of the world’s top professional golfers. McIlroy is one of a very small group of men to have achieved…

  • Michael Palin on the Philippines, China and the Fish-Slapping Dance

    October 16, 2026 · 43 min

    Best known as a member of Monty Python, Michael Palin has been many things  — sketch writer, comedian, actor, and for almost four decades, world traveler. In his latest series, “Michael Palin in the Philippines” - on UK channel 5 - Palin…

  • Melania, Soft Power & the Iran War with Writer Azadeh Moaveni

    October 9, 2026 · 38 min

    As US journalist Azadeh Moaveni was writing her latest book, ‘The East Wing’, a history of America's first ladies and their staff, President Donald Trump’s demolition of that very part of the White House was underway.  Moaveni presents…

  • Even a 0.1% AI Risk Matters: Google’s James Manyika

    October 2, 2026 · 42 min

    Amid the furious debate over the pace and potential risks of AI development, top tech executives have publicly united around a call for their industry to be regulated. As Google's senior vice president of technology and society, James…

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  • Caught in the Iran War: Qatar’s PM on the Middle East “Earthquake”

    September 25, 2026 · 28 min

    “Our region has experienced what I can only describe as an earthquake.” That was how Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister, began remarks at a special UN General Assembly edition of the Qatar Economic Forum…

  • Trump's 'Unreality Bubble’ Meets the Midterms: Maggie Haberman

    September 18, 2026 · 40 min

    Few journalists have watched Donald Trump as closely or for as long as Maggie Haberman. The New York Times reporter first encountered him as a tabloid fixture in the 1990s and has since chronicled his ascent to the White House, the period…

  • Forget the Manosphere: Jon Ronson on Why Men Feel Lost

    September 11, 2026 · 39 min

    Author Jon Ronson has spent years focusing on the unusual people and societal undercurrents of our changing world. He has written a series of bestselling books featuring extremists, conspiracy theorists and psychopaths. The Men Who Stare…

  • US Versus China, Cheap AI & Human Love: AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee

    September 4, 2026 · 44 min

    Chinese artificial intelligence companies are rapidly closing the gap with their American rivals despite years of US restrictions on advanced chips. But the race between the world’s two AI superpowers is part of a much bigger…

  • Colm Tóibín on 1970s Barcelona, Trump's America and Escaping into Art

    August 28, 2026 · 40 min

    The writer Colm Tóibín knows something about leaving home. As a young man living in Spain, he discovered a freedom he hadn’t known growing up in Ireland. Later, he would settle in America. Tóibín’s latest books revisit these journeys. The…

  • Hamid Karzai on the Taliban, Pakistan and His Daughters’ Future

    August 21, 2026 · 40 min

    It's been 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the US-led invasion of Afghanistan that brought Hamid Karzai, then a little-known tribal leader, to power. Two decades later, Karzai witnessed the chaotic withdrawal of American…

  • Why will.i.am Says Human Creativity Will Survive AI

    August 14, 2026 · 26 min

    The Grammy award winning musician, tech CEO and college professor will.i.am says he believes in the power of artificial intelligence to assist human creativity. He tells Mishal Husain why his attitude toward technology is different from…

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About the show

Make sense of the world with one essential conversation, every week. Mishal Husain, one of Britain's best interviewers, brings her signature blend of curiosity and tenacity to weekly conversations with world leaders, business titans, and cultural icons, revealing who they really are and how they see the world changing around them. Subscribe today at Bloomberg.com/audio or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. For annotated transcripts of Mishal's conversations head to Bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview