“The point was to make people aware… The world knows now who [Microsoft] truly are, and what they’re doing.”As Microsoft celebrated its 50th anniversary with a panel featuring Bill Gates, one employee stood up and disrupted the event. He...

‘The crimes [in Gaza] are so egregious that are being carried out... The attempt to cover them up and whitewash them is failing’ Since 7 October, western media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza has come under intense scrutiny, partic...

"You can’t be a filmmaker. You’re Palestinian - no one will care."Cherien Dabis is a Palestinian-American filmmaker and actress constantly working to break new ground for Palestinian representation in Hollywood. In 2022, she ...

In The World After Gaza, acclaimed Indian author Pankaj Mishra reckons with Israel’s war on Gaza and its far-reaching moral and geopolitical consequences.He situates the onslaught within the broader context of western colonialism while g...

"The more they offer the Trump administration, the more the Trump administration is going to ask - and the demands in that letter [sent to Columbia] are absolutely unacceptable."In this Real Talk interview, Columbia humanities professor ...

Over a year ago in January 2024, Jewish-American academic Maura Finkelstein found herself placed on administrative leave by her institution at the time: Muhlenberg College. A few months later she was fired, despite having tenure. &n...

“From the moment Israel was created, there’s this idea that it is unimaginable that it can perpetrate any crime under international law, let alone genocide.” US-Israeli genocide scholar Raz Segal was the first academic to label Isra...

Will Brics nations pose a real challenge to Donald Trump’s second term in office? And how do Trump’s tariffs stack up against this rising bloc? US economist Richard D Wolff joined us for an extended conversation on Trump, tariffs, B...

"Elon Musk has been given by Trump… almost dictatorial power” Today we’re taking on the MAGA ‘civil war’ that’s publicly erupted within Donald Trump’s own ranks. Did Elon Musk and the tech billionaires already win the ba...

“I don’t believe this is about Israel’s security.”What’s it like to be a medic inside Gaza’s shattered healthcare system?British plastic surgeon Dr Victoria Rose joins us on Real Talk to share her first-hand account of the harrowi...

“If you’re an Arab, specifically a Palestinian journalist…you are political. Your identity is political.”We recently sat down with award-winning journalist and filmmaker Hind Hassan for a reflective conversation that delves into Gaza, th...

Nearly 12 years after her father was arrested in 2013, and days after Bashar al-Assad was toppled, Wafa Mustafa is now going back to Syria driven by a determination to find him. Wafa has not returned to her home country since escapi...

How did Hafez al-Assad rise from an army officer to establish a dynasty that brutally ruled Syria for 54 years?From seizing power in 1970 to the Hama massacre, and Bashar inheriting power, Professor Joshua Landis joined us for ...

“AIPAC is a pro-Israel lobby and they need to be defeated for that reason. But they also represent white supremacy and everything that comes with that.”US congressman Jamaal Bowman reflects on losing his seat after AIPAC poured...

“I can’t watch a guy plugged up to an IV burned alive.” Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of America’s most celebrated writers. His latest book, The Message, took him to Senegal, South Carolina and Israel-Palestine. ...

“The relationship with Israel is in a different league entirely” In light of Israel’s multi-front war in the region, including Gaza, Lebanon, and the escalation with Iran, how can we understand the US-Israel ‘special relat...

“It happens because of years of anti-Muslim, anti-migrant hatred.” It’s been several months since Humza Yousaf stepped down in May 2024. Now, the Scottish former First Minister, who in 2023 became the first Muslim leader o...

“I now rage that my government is behaving the way it’s behaving.” As Israel’s war on Gaza, and now Lebanon, continues with no end in sight, we’re delving into why America’s Gaza policy failed. Today on ...

‘They're not ready for the storm that's happening... The average Joe has Twitter and is seeing what's going on [in Gaza].’On Real Talk, we sat down with investigative journalist Matt Kennard to discuss his latest book, The Rack...

Today on Real Talk, we speak to Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, about the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the US elections.We delve into why he believes we are “at the end of empire”...

“Israel should be treated as a pariah state,” argues Francesca Albanese.In this Real Talk interview, we speak with Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, about the reported abuses inside Israel’s Sd...

Recorded: 24 April 2024 ‘The solidarity with Israel has never been stronger’ Voting has begun in the world’s biggest election in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third five-year term. 

Recorded: 28 January 2024 Alana Hadid belongs to one of the most recognisable Palestinian families in the world. So when she sat down with us on Real Talk, we tried to unpack the pressures that come with that. In our c...

Recorded: 12 March 2024Our guest in this episode is US independent presidential candidate Cornel West, and we ask him why he called Joe Biden a “war criminal”. He also explains why he feels Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin N...