Sharp Talk

Lionel Barber, writer and broadcaster and editor of the Financial Times 2005 - 2020, talks to Paul Adamson about the future of media, the relationship between journalists and politicians, and life after the FT.

Justin Webb, Presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' Programme, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks'.

Mark Leonard, Director and Co-founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'The Age of Unpeace - How Connectivity Causes Conflict'.

Benjamin Haddad, Senior Director of the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council, talks to Paul Adamson about the French presidential elections, France's influence in the EU, and the current state of transatlantic relations.

Alec Ross, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School of l'Università di Bologna and former Senior Adviser for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'The Raging 2020s : Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for our Future'.

Radek Sikorski, the former Foreign Minister and Defence Minister of Poland, and Chairman of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the United States, talks to Paul Adamson about Poland's regime, transatlantic relations and how the EU should deal with China.

Dr Daniela Schwarzer, Executive Director, Europe and Eurasia, at the Open Society Foundations, talks to Paul Adamson about Germany and the EU after Angela Merkel's 16 years as Chancellor.

Luuk van Middelaar, historian and political theorist, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'Pandemonium - Saving Europe'.

Fiona Hill, Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019, talks to Paul Adamson about her now book 'There is Nothing for you Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century'.

Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute at King's College, London, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book "Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are"?

Ian Dunt, columnist at the i newspaper, talks to Paul Adamson about his book "How to be a Liberal"

Author and columnist Steve Richards talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn'.

Gillian Tett, Chairman of the US Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large at the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about her new book "Anthro-Vision - How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life"

Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence since 2014 and President of Eurocities, talks to Paul Adamson about the growing influence of cities, tensions between local and central government in Italy, and spending priorities for the new EU Recovery Fund.

Lord Ricketts, former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Ambassador to NATO, head of the Foreign Office, National Security Advisor and Ambassador to France, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book "Hard Choices - What Britain Does Next".

Stefano Sannino, Secretary General of the European External Action Service, talks to Paul Adamson about the EEAS's performance and how it is responding to new foreign and security policy challenges.

Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at the Columbia Law School, talks to Paul Adamson about her book 'The Brussels Effect - How the European Union Rules the World'.

Terry Reintke MEP, Vice-President of the Green group in the European Parliament, talks to Paul Adamson about EU-UK relations post Brexit, the rise of the Green Party in Germany and the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Dr Shann Hulme, Research Leader, Home Affairs and Social Policy at RAND Europe, talks to Paul Adamson about the growth of serious and organised crime in Europe and its infiltration of legitimate businesses.

Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director and Practice Head, Europe, at the Eurasia Grouup, talks to Paul Adamson about the execution of the EU Recovery Plan and the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.