Nov 13, 2020
The 14th and current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, like previous Dalai Lamas, is a figure of unification of the state of Tibet. He represents Buddhist values and traditions.
He has just released a new book, 'Our Only Home', which is a call to action for leaders and individuals to move now to combat climate change.
He...
Nov 6, 2020
David Miliband, has had a varied career - from working as a policy analyst in Tony Blair’s Downing Street, ultimately becoming Foreign Secretary, to heading up an international charity, working with refugees all over the world.
Krishnan speaks to David in the midst of a remarkable week in US and world politics. With...
Oct 30, 2020
Kim Darroch was a lifelong Foreign Office Diplomat to rose
through the ranks to become British Ambassador to the United States
between 2016 and 2019.
He hit the headlines last year when a private letter he
had written, saying unflattering things about the Trump
administration was leaked.
He talks to Krishnan about...
Oct 23, 2020
Alicia Garza has been campaigning since she was 12 years old.
It’s no surprise then, that when she posted a “love letter to Black
people" on Facebook in 2013, it sparked one of the biggest racial
justice movements in history - Black Lives Matter.
Now the principal of the Black Futures Lab, Alicia has just
released...
Oct 21, 2020
Olivette Otele is an historian who is
currently Professor of History of
Slavery at Bristol University and Vice-President of
the Royal Historical Society. She is the first black female
history professor in the UK.
Her most recent book, 'African Europeans: An Untold History
explores a history that has been long...