Featuring conversations with global leaders and decision makers on the issues affecting the world today, Amanpour and Company adds to the long tradition of public affairs programming that has been a hallmark of public media for decades.
Michel Martin sits down with a sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards who has been behind protests by high-profile athletes for more than fifty years.
As teacher strikes across America highlight the country’s frayed public education system, Prof. Pedro Noguera, distinguished professor of Education at UCLA, and Nate Bowling, Washington state’s teacher of the year in 2016, discuss why lawmakers need to start prioritizing teaching.
Christiane Amanpour sits down with acclaimed actress Gillian Anderson to discuss her wide-spanning career, whether that’s television roles in “The X-Files” and Netflix comedy “Sex Education,” or on-stage in London’s West End in a brilliant new production of “All About Eve.”
Hari Sreenivasan sits down with acclaimed French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy to discuss his new book “The Empire and the Five Kings” and America’s gradual abdication from its traditional leadership role.
As Venezuelans starve inside a country mired in political and social chaos, the Trump administration has set a Saturday deadline for much-needed aid to be allowed entry. Historian Miguel Tinker Salas joins the program to discuss.
Syrian Director Talal Derki spent more than two years documenting the nightmare that has befallen his country, embedding himself with a radical jihadist family. He joins the program to discuss his astonishing film, “Of Fathers and Sons.”
While the Venezuelan crisis continues, Latin America is no stranger to political upheaval, as renowned novelist Isabel Allende knows all too well. Her godfather and cousin, Chile’s socialist President Salvador Allende, was deposed in a US-backed coup in 1973. She fled to Venezuela where she would live for more than a decade. She discusses her incredible life and vantage point.
Michel Martin sits down with Kate Bowler, whose relationship with God faced one of its biggest tests when she was diagnosed with cancer. That struggle is all detailed in her new memoir, “Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved.”
Alicia Menendez sits down with the immigration lawyer who took on President Trump’s travel ban, Becca Heller.
Nobel Prize-winning poet Wole Soyinka joins the program to discuss this weekend’s election in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy.
As the caliphate faces the brink of extinction, former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service Richard Dearlove joins the program to discuss why ISIS is still a threat.
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