The Mishal Husain 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
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Episodes (48)
Hamid Karzai on the Taliban, Pakistan and His Daughters’ Future
Aug 21, 2026
Why will.i.am Says Human Creativity Will Survive AI
Aug 14, 2026
Adjoa Andoh on Shonda Rhimes, ‘Bridgerton’ and Becoming Lady Danbury
Aug 7, 2026
History’s Not Just About Great Men: Peter Frankopan on Iran and Ukraine
Jul 31, 2026
Karen Hao on the Reckless Race for Global AI Power
Jul 24, 2026
"He's Weak": Tucker Carlson on How Trump Failed America
Jul 17, 2026
Taming Labour and Facing Down Farage: Steve Richards on Burnham's Plan
Jul 10, 2026
America in Free Fall? Historian Jill Lepore on the US at 250
Jul 3, 2026
Can Republicans Win California Again? Steve Hilton Thinks So
Jun 26, 2026
Bonus: Alastair Campbell & Jacob Rees-Mogg Debate Brexit 10 Years On (Live)
Jun 23, 2026
AI Wants Your Life: Tech Boss Meredith Whittaker Says No
Jun 19, 2026
Gary Lineker on the World Cup, Trump and the Fans Left Behind
Jun 12, 2026
Ebola Is Back: Virus Pioneer Peter Piot Explains the Threat
Jun 5, 2026
Cuba on the Brink: Ada Ferrer on Life Under US Pressure
May 29, 2026
Can Britain’s Politics Cope: David Dimbleby Thinks Not
May 22, 2026
China vs the US: Kishore Mahbubani on a Zero-Sum Rivalry
May 15, 2026
Anthony Scaramucci: Trump and the Humiliation That Made Him Famous
May 8, 2026
Why India Has Lost Its Way: Writer Amitav Ghosh on the New World Order, Politics and Past Lives
May 1, 2026
How to Get a Deal With Iran: Former US Negotiator Wendy Sherman on Power, Pressure and Reality
Apr 24, 2026
Hamlet, James Bond and SNL UK: Riz Ahmed on Reinventing Cultural Icons
Apr 17, 2026
America’s Limits, Iran’s Leverage, Pakistan’s Moment: Maleeha Lodhi on a Shifting Order
Apr 9, 2026
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Identity and Why She Refuses to Stay Quiet
Apr 2, 2026
Why Israel Could Be Forced to Stop: Shira Efron on War, Fatigue and Netanyahu's Strategy
Mar 27, 2026
Ro Khanna on Stopping the Iran War, Taking on the ‘Epstein Class’ and Taxing Billionaires
Mar 20, 2026
Why Iran Isn’t Breaking: Vali Nasr on Pain, Patience and the Uprising That Isn’t Coming
Mar 13, 2026
Middle East Expert Bernard Haykel on the Three Futures for Iran After the Strikes
Mar 6, 2026
WHO Chief Tedros on Covid, China and Texting RFK Jr
Feb 27, 2026
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Creator Maggie Kang on the Global Hit No One Saw Coming
Feb 20, 2026
Bonus Episode: The Andrew Story
Feb 19, 2026
Author Andrey Kurkov on Winter in Kyiv and Why Putin Won’t Stop
Feb 13, 2026
David Miliband on Global Disorder, Labour’s ‘Mistakes’ and Deploying $1 Billion on Crises
Feb 6, 2026
Netflix’s ‘Cover-Up’ Director Laura Poitras on ICE, ‘Domestic Terrorists’ and US Surveillance
Jan 30, 2026
Rutger Bregman Is Thinking About Billionaires, the US Versus Europe and Saving the World
Jan 23, 2026
Jeanne Shaheen Is Pressing For Answers on Venezuela, Greenland and Iran
Jan 16, 2026
Peter Navarro Is Doubling Down on Tariffs
Jan 9, 2026
Kara Swisher Is Thinking About Life After Trump
Jan 2, 2026
Elon Musk Wants Credit for Cutting Waste, Not Cutting Aid
Dec 26, 2025
Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
Dec 19, 2025
Mustafa Suleyman Isn’t Like Everyone Else in Silicon Valley
Dec 12, 2025
Salman Rushdie Isn’t Afraid of Free Speech
Dec 5, 2025
Ken Burns Says Gratitude Is the Missing Ingredient in Our Politics
Nov 28, 2025
Fei-Fei Li Helped Create AI, Now She Feels the Responsibility
Nov 21, 2025
Richard Moore Was Paid to Steal Secrets, Not Solve Mysteries
Nov 14, 2025
Julia Ioffe Wants You to Know Russia Is Bigger Than Putin
Nov 7, 2025
María Corina Machado Believes US Pressure on Maduro Is the Only Way
Oct 31, 2025
Nigel Farage Thinks Britain Has Had Too Many Unifiers
Oct 24, 2025
Mark Carney Has Learned From Donald Trump
Oct 16, 2025
Introducing: The Mishal Husain Show
Oct 10, 2025