The Mishal Husain Show

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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.

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Mustafa Suleyman Isn’t Like Everyone Else in Silicon Valley

Mustafa Suleyman co-founded AI lab DeepMind when he was just 26 years old. Four years later, it was acquired by Google for a reported $400 million. He is now head of Microsoft’s AI unit, where he just unveiled a new superintelligence team tasked with creating an AI that can outperform humans at all tasks. In this conversation with Mishal Husain, Suleyman talks about the decisions society has to make about AI, the white-hot war over tech talent and the competition with other tech bros. 00:00 - In...

Dec 12, 2025•45 min

Salman Rushdie Isn’t Afraid of Free Speech

Salman Rushdie was nearly killed when he was stabbed 15 times on stage in upstate New York in 2022. His injuries were so severe that he lost an eye. It was an attack that came decades after he was first subjected to death threats over his novel, The Satanic Verses . Once he had recovered, he found he was unable to write fiction. However, after publishing an account of what happened to him, the stories returned, with five brought together in his latest book, The Eleventh Hour. In this conversatio...

Dec 05, 2025•43 min

Ken Burns Says Gratitude Is the Missing Ingredient in Our Politics

Ken Burns has been telling stories about America for almost 50 years. The lauded documentary filmmaker has a new series on PBS, The American Revolution, which charts the period before and after 1776. It will air internationally ahead of the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. Mishal Husain asked Burns to join the show to mark Thanksgiving, looking at today’s America through the lens of its past and the characters who made history. 02:15 - The complexity of the American Revol...

Nov 28, 2025•36 min

Fei-Fei Li Helped Create AI, Now She Feels the Responsibility

Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence research for 25 years, which is why she’s been called the “godmother of AI.” In this conversation she tells Mishal Husain how she arrived in the US as a teenager after her parents decided to emigrate from China. She also talks about the high school teacher who inspired her and a deep love of physics, leading her to ask what she calls “audacious” questions. These days, amid her excitement about AI and it...

Nov 21, 2025•44 min

Richard Moore Was Paid to Steal Secrets, Not Solve Mysteries

For almost 40 years, Richard Moore was a career spy in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. Only his closest friends and family knew what he did for a living. When he was appointed chief of the agency in 2020, that changed: The name of the person in the top role is the only one made public. In his first broadcast interview since leaving his post in September 2025, Moore talks to Mishal Husain about managing China, the psychology of Vladimir Putin and why spies shouldn’t expect recognition. 03:...

Nov 14, 2025•43 min

Julia Ioffe Wants You to Know Russia Is Bigger Than Putin

How do you tell the history of a whole country through its women? And what can it tell us about the world today? These are the questions Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe set out to answer in her new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. Having reported from, and on, Russia for publications including The New Yorker and Foreign Policy for more than a decade, Ioffe says she has repeatedly been asked to explain the actions and motivations of one ...

Nov 07, 2025•40 min

María Corina Machado Believes US Pressure on Maduro Is the Only Way

Three weeks after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado finds herself supporting US intervention in her native country. Mishal speaks to Maria Corina on recent US boat strikes, Nicolas Maduro’s fate and the need for strength to secure peace. 03:24 - "I had to go into hiding" 03:51 - Impact of the Nobel Peace Prize 05:38 - US Military build up 10:21 - Prospect of US ground strikes 13:10 - Is Machado speaking to the Trump Administration? 16:00 - Pro...

Oct 31, 2025•37 min

Nigel Farage Thinks Britain Has Had Too Many Unifiers

After successfully pushing for Brexit, political disruptor Nigel Farage announced his retirement. Last year, he returned to frontline politics as the leader of Reform UK, an insurgent party that’s never held national power but is now polling ahead of Labour and the Conservatives. Mishal speaks with Farage about dismantling consensus politics, Britain’s future relationship with the European Union and what he thinks Donald Trump is getting right. 4:02 - “We’ve not had enough change” 7:10 - Working...

Oct 24, 2025•51 min

Mark Carney Has Learned From Donald Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney talks to Mishal Husain about trade battles, Vladimir Putin's miscalculations and what he's learned from Donald Trump. 3:41 - Mark Carney's parents and his path to power 4:58 - What does he miss about his old life? 6:34 - Did President Trump help him get elected? 14:05 - "I've learned lots of things from President Trump" 16:42 - Ukraine and NATO 22:18 - Putin's miscalculations 22:49 - Next steps on a Palestinian state 25:00 - The climate crisis, where is the ol...

Oct 16, 2025•38 min

Introducing: The Mishal Husain Show

Welcome to The Mishal Husain Show. In a world of confusion, let Mishal guide you through some of the most complex stories of our times, through questions, curiosity and decades of journalistic experience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 10, 2025•2 min

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