This is the full list of High Profile interviews to date, the latest first. For A–Z order, click here.
Click on a name to find that interview online. Interviews marked • are posted on this site.
- Kate Forbes | SNP politician | 2024
- Brian Eno | musician, artist, activist and thinker | 2022
- Dafydd Iwan | folk singer and Welsh nationalist | 2022
- Elaine Brown | former leader of the Black Panthers | 2022
- Judi Dench | actor | 2022
- Steve Baker | Conservative politician | 2022
- Len McCluskey | trade unionist | 2022
- Alan Garner | novelist | 2021
- Daniel Finkelstein | policy adviser and columnist | 2021
- Chris Packham | naturalist and TV presenter | 2021
- Kate Manne | feminist moral philosopher | 2021
- Zara Mohammed | secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain | 2021
- Carlo Rovelli | theoretical physicist | 2021
- Rory Stewart | Conservative politician, diplomat and writer | 2021
- Frank Wilczek | theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate | 2021
- John Pilger | journalist and documentary film-maker | 2020
- Stephen Yaxley-Lennon | anti-Islam activist | 2020
- Ash Sarkar | radical journalist and activist | 2020
- Layla Moran | Liberal Democrat politician | 2020
- Tom Holland | historian and broadcaster | 2020
- David Lammy | Labour politician | 2020
- Jonathan Bartley | Green politician | 2020
- Brian Greene | theoretical physicist | 2020
- James O’Brien | radio presenter and podcaster | 2019
- Dominic Grieve | Conservative politician | 2018
- Alastair McIntosh | Quaker academic, author and activist | 2017
- Polly Higgins | lawyer and campaigner | 2017
- Harriet Harman | Labour politician | 2017
- Ruby Wax | comedian | 2017
- Kae Tempest | rapper, poet, playwright and novelist | 2016
- Salma Yaqoob | anti-war campaigner and co-founder of Respect | 2016
- Lemn Sissay | poet and playwright | 2016
- Michael Rosen | poet and former Children’s Laureate | 2016
- Bill McKibben | environmental writer and activist | 2016
- Tony Campolo | sociologist, pastor and social activist | 2016
- A review of the ‘Third Way’ years | 2016
- Gloria Steinem | feminist activist and icon | 2016
- Natalie Bennett | Green politician | 2016
- Andrew Mitchell | Conservative politician | 2015
- Paul Mason | journalist and broadcaster | 2015
- Michael Eavis | farmer and founder of Glastonbury | 2015
- Slavoj Žižek | philosopher and critic | 2015
- Jeremy Corbyn | Labour politician | 2015
- Francesca Martinez | comedian and activist | 2015
- Jeremy Paxman | journalist and broadcaster | 2015
- Steven Weinberg | theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate | 2015
- Armando Iannucci | satirist | 2015
- Terry Eagleton | literary theorist and public intellectual | 2015
- Marina Abramović | performance artist | 2014
- Mike Leigh | film and theatre director | 2014
- Toby Young | journalist and author | 2014
- Jenni Murray | journalist and broadcaster | 2014
- Peter Oborne | journalist and author | 2014
- Nadine Dorries | Conservative politician | 2014
- Satish Kumar | author, editor and green activist | 2014
- Robert Skidelsky | economic historian | 2014
- Tom Watson | Labour politician | 2014
- Peter Bazalgette | chair of Arts Council England | 2014
- Frances O’Grady | general secretary of the TUC | 2013
- Richard Branson | businessman | 2013
- Steve Chalke | pastor and social entrepreneur | 2013
- Martin Carthy | folk singer | 2013
- Daniel Dennett | philosopher | 2013
- Michael Morpurgo | novelist and former Children’s Laureate | 2013
- Owen Jones | columnist, author and political activist | 2013
- Mary Midgley | philosopher | 2013
- Jon Ronson | journalist and author | 2013
- Helena Kennedy | barrister and working peer | 2013
- Kumi Naidoo | environmental campaigner | 2012
- E O Wilson | biologist | 2012
- Iain Duncan Smith | Conservative politician | 2012
- Patti Smith | singer-songwriter and poet | 2012
- Tanni Grey-Thompson | Paralympian and working peer | 2012
- Jürgen Moltmann | theologian | 2012
- Werner Herzog | film director | 2012
- Jeanette Winterson | novelist | 2012
- Phillip Blond | ‘Red Tory’ political philosopher | 2012
- Maurice Glasman | ‘Blue Labour’ social thinker | 2012
- Nigel Farage | Ukip politician | 2012
- Annie Lennox | singer and activist | 2011
- Michael Nazir-Ali | Bishop of Rochester | 2011
- Wendy Cope | poet | 2011
- Rob Bell | megachurch pastor and author | 2011
- Elif Şafak | novelist | 2011
- Andy Burnham | Labour politician | 2011
- John Carey | academic and critic | 2011
- Ellen MacArthur | round-the-world yachtswoman | 2011
- Bjørn Lomborg | ‘sceptical environmentalist’ | 2011
- Jon Cruddas | Labour politician | 2011
- William Gibson | novelist | 2010
- Susan Blackmore | psychologist and memeticist | 2010
- Stanley Hauerwas | theologian | 2010
- Margaret Atwood | novelist, poet and critic | 2010
- Virginia Ironside | journalist and agony aunt | 2010
- Paulo Coelho | novelist | 2010
- Michael Gove | journalist and Conservative politician | 2010
- Rod Liddle | journalist and controversialist | 2010
- Cristina Odone | journalist and author | 2010
- Franny Armstrong | film director and activist | 2010
- Michael Mansfield | ‘radical lawyer’ | 2009
- Sayeeda Warsi | Conservative politician | 2009
- Amartya Sen | economist and philosopher | 2009
- Dennis Skinner | Labour politician | 2009
- Vince Cable | Liberal Democrat politician | 2009
- Michael Portillo | Conservative politician and commentator | 2009
- Alain de Botton | philosopher | 2009
- Andrew Motion | Poet Laureate | 2009
- Gene Robinson | Bishop of New Hampshire | 2009
- Camila Batmanghelidjh | founder of Kids Company | 2009
- Sam Taylor-Wood | photographer and visual artist | 2008
- Camille Paglia | feminist social critic | 2008
- Peter Akinola | Primate of the Church of Nigeria | 2008
- Bianca Jagger | human-rights activist | 2008
- Khalid Mish’al | leader of Hamas | 2008
- Francis Collins | geneticist | 2008
- Nick Clegg | Liberal Democrat politician | 2008
- Ben Elton | satirist and comedian | 2008
- Mona Siddiqui | Muslim academic and broadcaster | 2008
- Oliver James | psychologist and writer | 2008
- Tony Juniper | environmental activist | 2007
- Niall Ferguson | historian | 2007
- Joseph Stiglitz | economist | 2007
- Julie Burchill | journalist and controversialist | 2007
- David Willetts | Conservative politician | 2007
- Claire Fox | libertarian thinker and activist | 2007
- Julia Neuberger | rabbi and working peer | 2007
- Daniel Libeskind | architect | 2007
- Lewis Wolpert | biologist and author | 2007
- Tariq Ramadan | academic and philosopher | 2007
- Tracey Emin | artist | 2006
- Julian Baggini | philosopher | 2006
- Zac Goldsmith | journalist and environmental activist | 2006
- Jacqueline Wilson | novelist and Children’s Laureate | 2006
- Deepak Chopra | New Age writer | 2006
- Alan Rusbridger | editor of the ‘Guardian’ | 2006
- Douglas Alexander | Labour politician | 2006
- Simon Jenkins | columnist and cultural commentator | 2006
- Robert Winston | scientist, broadcaster and working peer | 2006
- Shami Chakrabarti | director of Liberty | 2005
- Mike Jackson | general and Chief of the General Staff | 2005
- Simon Armitage | poet | 2005
- Katharine Hamnett | fashion designer and activist | 2005
- George Galloway | Respect politician | 2005
- Benjamin Zephaniah | dub poet and musician | 2005
- James Lovelock | scientist and inventor | 2005
- Caroline Lucas | Green politician | 2005
- Martin Rees | Astronomer Royal | 2005
- Antony Gormley | sculptor | 2005
- Jon Snow | broadcast journalist | 2005
- Thom Yorke | rock singer and songwriter | 2004
- Johann Hari | columnist | 2004
- Darcus Howe | columnist and civil-rights activist | 2004
- Boris Johnson | Conservative politician | 2004
- Trevor Kavanagh | political editor of the ‘Sun’ | 2004
- Nick Griffin | BNP politician | 2004
- Michael Ignatieff | philosopher and politician | 2004
- John Gray | political philosopher | 2004
- Francis Wheen | satirist, journalist and author | 2004
- Shirley Williams | Liberal Democrat politician | 2004
- Rowan Pelling | editor of ‘Erotic Review’ | 2004
- Simon Hughes | Liberal Democrat politician | 2004
- Kate Adie | reporter | 2003
- Cormac Murphy-O’Connor | Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster | 2003
- Steven Pinker | cognitive scientist | 2003
- Billy Bragg | singer-songwriter and activist | 2003
- Claire Rayner | journalist and agony aunt | 2003
- Terry Pratchett | novelist | 2003
- Mark Thompson | chief executive of Channel 4 | 2003
- Theresa May | Conservative politician | 2003
- Omar Bakri Muhammad | leader of al-Muhajiroun | 2003
- Shagufta Yaqub | editor of ‘Q News’ | 2003
- Ben Okri | novelist and poet | 2003
- Maya Angelou | poet and civil-rights activist | 2002
- Peter Hitchens | columnist and author | 2002
- Martin McGuinness | Sinn Féin politician | 2002
- Ken Loach | film director | 2002
- Peter Singer | philosopher | 2002
- Joan Bakewell | journalist and broadcaster | 2002
- Max Clifford | publicist | 2002
- Peter Tatchell | human-rights campaigner | 2002
- Philip Pullman | novelist | 2002
- Tam Dalyell | Labour politician | 2002
- Menzies Campbell | Liberal Democrat politician | 2001
- Naomi Wolf | feminist writer | 2001
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | journalist and author | 2001
- Richard Holloway | former Primus of the Church of Scotland | 2001
- Noreena Hertz | economist | 2001
- George Monbiot | environmental and political activist | 2001
- Will Self | novelist and commentator | 2001
- Indarjit Singh | journalist and leading Sikh | 2001
- Jane Goodall | primatologist | 2001
- Roger Scruton | philosopher | 2001
- Hans Küng | theologian | 2001
- Harry Woolf | Lord Chief Justice | 2000
- Chris Patten | Conservative politician | 2000
- Susan Greenfield | neuroscientist | 2000
- Peter Melchett | environmental campaigner | 2000
- Iqbal Sacranie | secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain | 2000
- Richard Rogers | architect | 2000
- John Peel | DJ and radio presenter | 2000
- Mark Thomas | political satirist | 2000
- Neil MacGregor | director of the National Gallery | 2000
- Rowan Williams | Archbishop of Wales | 2000
- Roger Penrose | mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate | 1999
- David Blunkett | Labour politician | 1999
- Donald Dewar | First Minister of Scotland | 1999
- Charles Kennedy | Liberal Democrat politician | 1999
- Paul Davies | theoretical physicist | 1999
- James MacMillan | composer | 1999
- Bea Campbell | feminist writer and activist | 1999
- Hugo Young | veteran columnist and author | 1999
- Richard Ingrams | satirist | 1999
- Steve Jones | geneticist | 1999
- John Tavener | composer | 1998
- Ann Widdecombe | Conservative politician | 1998
- Mary McAleese | President of Ireland | 1998
- John Humphrys | broadcast journalist | 1998
- Polly Toynbee | journalist and writer | 1998
- David Puttnam | film producer and working peer | 1998
- Mo Mowlam | Labour politician | 1998
- Janet Daley | columnist | 1998
- Martin Bell | journalist and politician | 1998
- John Hume | SDLP politician | 1998
- Noam Chomsky | academic, dissident and public intellectual | 1997
- George Carey | Archbishop of Canterbury | 1997
- John Monks | general secretary of the TUC | 1997
- David Sheppard | retiring Bishop of Liverpool | 1997
- Will Hutton | editor of the ‘Observer’ | 1997
- Amitai Etzioni | communitarian sociologist | 1997
- Douglas Coupland | novelist | 1997
- Brian Mawhinney | Conservative politician | 1997
- Melanie Phillips | columnist and commentator | 1997
- Mary Warnock | philosopher | 1997
- Andrew Marr | editor of the ‘Independent’ | 1996
- Ian Paisley | Unionist politician | 1996
- David Trimble | Unionist politician | 1996
- Gerry Adams | Sinn Féin politician | 1996
- Tony Benn | Labour politician and diarist | 1996
- Charles Handy | philosopher | 1996
- Melvyn Bragg | novelist and broadcaster | 1996
- Zaki Badawi | Islamic scholar | 1996
- Anita Roddick | businesswoman and activist | 1996
- Charles Moore | editor of the ‘Daily Telegraph’ | 1996
- Frank Field | Labour politician | 1996
- Peter Greenaway | film director | 1995
- Jonathan Sacks | Chief Rabbi | 1995
- John Stott | theologian | 1995
- Suzanne Moore | columnist | 1995
- Tony Parsons | journalist and author | 1995
- Jim Wallis | political activist and founder of Sojourners | 1995
- Matthew Fox | theologian | 1995
- Fay Weldon | novelist | 1995
- Richard Dawkins | evolutionary biologist | 1995
- Ian Hislop | editor of ‘Private Eye’ | 1995
- Peter Preston | editor of the ‘Guardian’ | 1995
- Lynda Chalker | Conservative politician | 1994
- Paddy Ashdown | Liberal Democrat politician | 1994
- Virginia Bottomley | Conservative politician | 1994
- Chris Smith | Labour politician | 1994
- David Jenkins | retiring Bishop of Durham | 1994
- Martyn Lewis | TV news presenter | 1994
- Desmond Tutu | Archbishop of Cape Town | 1994
- Peter Lilley | Conservative politician | 1994
- Alan Beith | Liberal Democrat politician | 1994
- Susan Howatch | novelist | 1994
- Bruce Kent | veteran peace activist | 1993
- Barry Norman | film critic | 1993
- Tony Blair | Labour politician | 1993
- Jonathon Porritt | environmental campaigner | 1993
- Clare Short | Labour politician | 1993
- James Mackay | Conservative politician | 1993
