Sharp Talk

George Parker, Political Editor of the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about how the UK government is handling Phase II of the Brexit negotiations.

Martin Westlake, author of 'Slipping Loose: the UK's long drift away from the European Union' talks to Paul Adamson about the various trends over the years leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union.

The physicist and science journalist, Ranga Yogeshwar, talks to Paul Adamson about the societal impact of 5G.

Professor Amelia Hadfield, head of the Department of Politics and Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey, talks to Paul Adamson about UK foreign and security policy post-Brexit.

Sam Lowe, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, talks to Paul Adamson about the Boris Johnson Brexit deal, level playing fields, the greening of the trade agenda, and the weaponisation of trade.

Michael Peel, the European Diplomatic Correspondent for the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'The Fabulists: The World's New Rulers, Their Myths and the Struggle Against Them'.

Kalypso Nicolaidis, Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, talks to Paul Adamson about her new book 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice; Three Meanings of Brexit'.

John Peet, Political and Brexit Editor at The Economist, talks to Paul Adamson about the future of EU-UK relations as the official Brexit deadline looms.

Senator Marsha Blackburn, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tech Task Force, talks to Paul Adamson about data privacy in the U.S. and the broader responsibilities tech companies now face.

David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, talks to Paul Adamson about Brexit, the Labour Party's position, US relations and the EU's place in the world.

Robert Madelin, international chairman of Fipra and former Director General at the European Commission, talks to Paul Adamson in our occasional series 'What has the UK ever done for the EU?'

Geoff Meade, former Europe editor of the Press Association, talks to Paul Adamson about his encounters with Boris Johnson then a young reporter in Brussels.

Stephen Fidler, UK and Brexit editor at the Wall Street Journal, talks to Paul Adamson about the new Conservative government in the UK and Boris Johnson's Brexit strategy.

Frans van Daele, former Permanent Representative of Belgium to the European Union, Ambassador to the United States and to NATO, and chef de cabinet of Herman van Rompuy, the first President of the European Council, talks to Paul Adamson in the second of our occasional series 'What has the UK ever done for the EU?'

Professor Anand Menon, Director of The UK in a Changing Europe project, based at King's College London, talks to Paul Adamson about the UK's contribution to the EU in the areas of the single market, enlargement and foreign policy.

Jean-Claude Piris, head of the EU Council of Minister's Legal Service for 23 years, talks to Paul Adamson about the real meaning of a 'No Deal Brexit' and the prospects of an agreement between the UK and the EU27 under a new British premiership.

Marietje Schaake, who recently stood down from the European Parliament, talks to Paul Adamson about her ten years as an MEP, her analysis of the European Parliament elections and how there should be more women occupying the European Unions's tob jobs.

Benjamin Haddad, director of the Europe programme at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book and the need for the European Union to show more unity of purpose in dealing with the United States.

Susannah Wellford, CEO and Founder of Running Start, a non partisan non profit organisation training young women to run for political office, talks to Paul Adamson about the barriers women face when seeking a career in politics and how these can be surmounted.

Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, talks to Paul Adamson about the EU's need to confront new realities.