The Mishal Husain Show
Episodes
Cuba on the Brink: Ada Ferrer on Life Under US Pressure
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ada Ferrer won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her acclaimed book, Cuba: An American History, which examined the island’s relationship with the U...
Can Britain’s Politics Cope: David Dimbleby Thinks Not
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Dimbleby was for decades the face of election programs on the BBC. He anchored coverage of 10 UK general elections, as well as the 1975 and 2016...
China vs the US: Kishore Mahbubani on a Zero-Sum Rivalry
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond this week’s talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, there’s an epic tale that has been unfolding ...
Anthony Scaramucci on Trump's Grip, Wall Street Blind Spots and the Humiliation that Made Him Famous
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For a brief moment in 2017, Anthony Scaramucci became a unit of time. His 11-day stint as White House communications director was so short-lived that ...
Why India Has Lost Its Way: Writer Amitav Ghosh on the New World Order, Politics and Past Lives
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years, the Indian-born writer Amitav Ghosh has built a global following with novels that draw on deep historical research. But ...
How to Get a Deal With Iran: Former US Negotiator Wendy Sherman on Power, Pressure and Reality
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re now eight weeks on from the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, a conflict that’s been watched with increasing alarm by Wendy Sher...
Hamlet, James Bond and SNL UK: Riz Ahmed on Reinventing Cultural Icons
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A new and radical take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet is out in US cinemas. The force behind it is actor, writer, producer and musician Riz Ahmed. He s...
America’s Limits, Iran’s Leverage, Pakistan’s Moment: Maleeha Lodhi on a Shifting Order
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After almost six weeks of war, how did Pakistan manage to get the US and Iran to talk? Amid a still-fragile situation in the Middle East, that questio...
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Identity and Why She Refuses to Stay Quiet
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lionel Shriver has often tackled complex or contentious issues in her fiction. From school shootings in We Need to Talk About Kevin to economic collap...
Why Israel Could Be Forced to Stop: Shira Efron on War, Fatigue and Netanyahu's Strategy
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With attention fixed on the potential developments between the US and Iran, could the Israeli government be forced to end the war earlier than it migh...
Ro Khanna on Stopping the Iran War, Taking on the ‘Epstein Class’ and Taxing Billionaires
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
US Representative Ro Khanna of California helped force Donald Trump to release the Epstein files. Now he wants to end the war with Iran. Earlier this ...
Why Iran Isn’t Breaking: Vali Nasr on Pain, Patience and the Uprising That Isn’t Coming
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the intensity of the US-Israel bombing campaign, Iran’s regime, now under a new supreme leader, hasn’t given President Donald Trum...
Middle East Expert Bernard Haykel on the Three Futures for Iran After the Strikes
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Within 24 hours of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, a host of other countries were drawn into the latest conflict in the Middle East. Iran retaliat...
WHO Chief Tedros on Covid, China and Texting RFK Jr
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, one of his first acts was to sign an executive order withdrawing the US from the Wo...
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Creator Maggie Kang on the Global Hit No One Saw Coming
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“KPop Demon Hunters” is the brainchild of Korean-Canadian animator Maggie Kang. It’s Netflix’s biggest-ever film and follows R...
Bonus Episode: The Andrew Story
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Feb. 19 arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of King Charles, puts the British Royal Family into uncharted territory. The former Prin...
Author Andrey Kurkov on Winter in Kyiv and Why Putin Won’t Stop
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This winter has been exceptionally brutal in Ukraine. Already the coldest in more than a decade, it’s been made worse by Russian attacks on ener...
David Miliband on Global Disorder, Labour’s ‘Mistakes’ and Deploying $1 Billion on Crises
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007 when he was UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband delivered an address to the Labour Party conference. He described a world with “fewer c...
Netflix’s ‘Cover-Up’ Director Laura Poitras on ICE, ‘Domestic Terrorists’ and US Surveillance
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The killing of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis has made January a dark month for many across America. Both Alex Pretti and Renee Good...
Rutger Bregman Is Thinking About Billionaires, the US versus Europe and Saving the World
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rutger Bregman knows what appearing at Davos can do for your profile. His reputation was made when he went there in 2019 and attacked the rich. The cl...
Jeanne Shaheen is pressing for answers on Venezuela, Greenland and Iran
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is Donald Trump’s plan for Venezuela? Does he have one? Will he go beyond threats in supporting the uprising in Iran or invading Greenland?...
Peter Navarro Is Doubling Down on Tariffs
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump’s tough talk about China and tariffs can be traced back in large part to economist Peter Navarro. A well-known China h...
Kara Swisher Is Thinking About Life After Trump
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Swisher has followed the story of Silicon Valley for three decades, having started work as a tech journalist at a time when few people were inter...
Elon Musk Wants Credit for Cutting Waste, Not Cutting Aid
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the year draws to a close, we are bringing you one of Mishal Husain’s biggest conversations of the year, in full. In May 2025, Elon Musk join...
Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer...
Mustafa Suleyman Isn’t Like Everyone Else in Silicon Valley
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.&nb...
Salman Rushdie Isn’t Afraid of Free Speech
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. I...
Ken Burns Says Gratitude Is the Missing Ingredient in Our Politics
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Burns has been telling stories about America for almost 50 years. The lauded documentary filmmaker has a new series on PBS, The American Revolutio...
Fei-Fei Li Helped Create AI, Now She Feels the Responsibility
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence research for 25 years, which is why she’s been cal...
Richard Moore Was Paid to Steal Secrets, Not Solve Mysteries
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Julia Ioffe Wants You to Know Russia Is Bigger Than Putin
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-Ameri...
María Corina Machado Believes US Pressure on Maduro Is the Only Way
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three weeks after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado finds herself supporting US interventi...
Nigel Farage Thinks Britain Has Had Too Many Unifiers
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After successfully pushing for Brexit, political disruptor Nigel Farage announced his retirement. Last year, he returned to frontline politics as the ...
Mark Carney Has Learned From Donald Trump
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney talks to Mishal Husain about trade battles, Vladimir Putin's miscalculations and what he's learned from Donald Tru...
Introducing: The Mishal Husain Show
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 questi...