Sharp Talk

Rosa Balfour, director of Carnegie Europe, talks to Paul Adamson about the tensions in creating a EU foreign and security policy and the UK's new Integrated Review ('Global Britain in a competitive age').

Michael Cashman, member of the House of Lords, activist, actor and author of the memoir "One of Them - From Albert Square to Parliament Square", talks to Paul Adamson about his role in co-founding Stonewall UK, his acting career, his fifteen years as a Member of the European Parliament, and his ongoing campaigning for equality.

Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and author of a new edition of 'The Magic Lantern', talks to Paul Adamson about the EU's dealings with Russia, Hungary, Poland and a post Brexit UK.

Steve Erlanger, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe for the New York Times, talks to Paul Adamson about the likely future shape of transatlantic relations in a Biden administration.

Philip Stephens, Chief Political Commentator at the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'Britain Alone'.

Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, talks to Paul Adamson about developments in geopolitics to look out for in 2021.

The humourist and former Europe editor of the Press Association, Geoff Meade, looks back on 2020 and has some ideas on the Future of Europe.

Matthew Kirk, former diplomat and international affairs adviser at Squire Patton Boggs, interviews Encompass founder Paul Adamson for a Brexit stock take - past, present and future.

Philippe Legrain, author of 'Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together' talks to Paul Adamson about his new book.

Christian van Stolk, Executive Vice President at RAND Europe, talks to Paul Adamson about a new RAND study "Covid-19 and the cost of vaccine nationalism'.

Rob Ford, Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester and co-author with Maria Sobolewska of 'Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics' talks to Paul Adamson about their new book and changing attitudes towards immigration in the UK.

Simon Anholt, author of 'The Good Country Equation', talks to Paul Adamson about harnessing globalisation and international collaboration for the greater good.

Matt Forde, stand-up comedian, broadcaster and writer/performer on 'Spitting Image', talks to Paul Adamson about positioning the Labour Party as a government in waiting and the challenges in writing for and voicing Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer.

Alan Compton, photo journalist/curator of the NLO Point of View exhibition, Denis Onyango, African Advocacy Foundation, Alyna Smith, Platform for Int’l Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants & Roberto Pérez Gayo, Correlation-European Harm Reduction Network

Tatjana Buzeti, Policy Officer, European Office for Investment for Health and Development, WHO EUROPE, Ann Isabelle von Lingen & Mario Cascio, EATG (European AIDS Treatment Group) and Roberto Pérez Gayo, Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network

Maria-Anna Paraskeva, Senior Policy Officer, DG EMPL, European Commission, Michele LeVoy, Director, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) and Luca Stevenson, Coordinator, International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE).

Francesca Colombo, Head of Health Division, OECD, Freek Spinnewijn, Director, European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA) and Jeffrey V. Lazarus Head, Health Systems Research Group, Barcelona Institute for Global Health

Kim Darroch, former UK Ambassador to the US, National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative to the EU, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump'.

Fiona Hill, 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 at the National Security Council, talks to Paul Adamson about US foreign and security policy priorities after the presidential elections, the future of NATO and the European External Action Service and the UK's position on the world stage after Brexit.

Martin Sandbu, European Economics Commentator at the FT and author of "The Economics of Belonging", talks to Paul Adamson about his new book and the prospects for a new radicalism post Covid-19.