Bonus: 2025 in conversations from The Interview
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
2025 on The Interview
In 2025, the BBC launched The Interview, bringing you the best conversations from across the BBC. People shaping our world from all over the world.
This special episode for The Documentary features three of the most compelling conversations from The Interview across the year. Senior politicians are held to account by experienced BBC journalists, who also bring a unique and personal insight to the conversation, with a behind-the-scenes take on each encounter that took place.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s controversial challenge to climate orthodoxy was the subject of his conversation with the BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt. Like his boss President Trump, Secretary Wright believes the threat from climate change is exaggerated, and the rush to decarbonisation by renewables has been an expensive mistake. In an interview with BBC presenter Paul Njie, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud defends his efforts to tackle the terrorist insurgency in his country. And he stands firm in the face of demands for independence from the northern region of Somaliland - the unity of Somalia, he says, is sacrosanct. British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out her plans for a radical reform of the UK asylum system in a conversation with the BBC’s Nick Robinson. It makes for an uncompromising message for those trying to enter Britain illegally. Thank you to the all the teams across the BBC who have helped us make The Interview throughout 2025. The Interview brings you conversations with people shaping our world, from all over the world. The best interviews from the BBC. You can listen on the BBC World Service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 0800 GMT. Or you can listen to The Interview as a podcast, out three times a week on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. Presenter: Lucy Sheppard Producers: Ben Cooper, Clare Williamson, Farhana Haider, Lucy Sheppard Editors: Justine Lang and Nick Holland Get in touch with us on email TheInterview@bbc.co.uk and use the hashtag #TheInterviewBBC on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello and welcome to The Documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Lucy Shepard, one of the producers of The Interview, |
| 0:14.5 | conversations with people shaping our world from all over the world. |
| 0:18.6 | You can listen by searching for the interview wherever you found this podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | Today we are spending trillions on war and peanuts on peace. |
| 0:26.7 | Wind power in the United States has been subsidized for 33 years. Isn't that enough? Solar for 25 |
| 0:32.2 | years. That's enough. I don't have army. I don't have missile rockets. I have my body. I have my voice. |
| 0:39.7 | I love singing and so my goal was always to do better and better at it. |
| 0:43.6 | I was still in an induced coma in hospital when the world was defining me. |
| 0:49.5 | Since the interview launched in March 2025, we've heard from world leaders to cultural icons, |
| 0:55.5 | grassroots campaigners to business titans and sporting legends. As we approach the end of the year, |
| 1:01.5 | we're bringing you a selection of the most compelling conversations we've featured over the last |
| 1:06.1 | nine months. For this episode, we hear from the US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, President of Somalia, |
| 1:12.9 | Hassan Sheikh Mohammed, and Shabana Mahmoud, British Home Secretary. |
| 1:19.8 | In September, BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt spoke to the United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright, |
| 1:26.9 | who believes the threat from climate change is exaggerated. |
| 1:30.4 | It's a view shared by Secretary-Rite's boss, President Donald Trump, and one that has seen subsidies to the renewable energy industry worth billions of dollars cut by the U.S. administration. |
| 1:42.2 | Chris Wright is highly critical of the transition to sustainable power, |
| 1:46.4 | describing it as unsuccessful and costly, and instead believes the solution to emissions lies in nuclear fusion. |
| 1:54.6 | He has drawn the anger of the international scientific community with his controversial challenge |
| 1:59.3 | to climate orthodoxy, including his claims |
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