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44m
Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to Boris Johnson, on culture wars in government and being a Tory
Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to Boris Johnson, talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the reasons why he first joined the Tory party aged 19, the role of special advisors in No 10 and why culture wars inside Downing Street made the downfall of Boris Johnson ‘inevitable’, in this episode of Ways To Change the World.
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26m
Keith Allen on becoming an actor and why he would legalise drugs
Keith Allen has been many things. The father of popstar Lily and Game of Thrones actor Alfie Allen, he was also a TV presenter, theatre actor, the man behind two hit football anthems (the Fat Les ditty “Vindaloo” and New Order’s “World in Motion”, both of which he co-wrote) and a handful of small roles…
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33m
Billy Porter on being a queer Black man in the music industry, the actors’ strike & Trump’s America
Billy Porter tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the challenges he faced due to homophobia in the music industry in the ’90s, the harsh reality of being an actor in the golden age of streaming and what success means to him, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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35m
Astronaut Tim Peake on Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the future of space exploration
Astronaut Tim Peake tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about his journey to becoming an astronaut, his time on the ISS and the crucial role of Elon Musk and SpaceX in future space missions, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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35m
Caster Semenya on gender fairness in athletics and what being a woman means to her
Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya tells Krishnan Guru-Murhy about her experiences as an athlete with a difference in sex development, her tumultuous journey to the top of the athletics world, and what being a woman means to her, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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36m
ActionAid CEO Halima Begum on siding with humanity in Israel-Gaza war and the West’s ‘moral responsibility’ to humanitarian aid
Action Aid UK’s CEO Halima Begum tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about her journey from youth activism to NGO work, the West’s ‘moral responsibility’ to humanitarian aid and the need for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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33m
Arnold Schwarzenegger on self-help, the Israel-Gaza war and why he’d be a good US president
Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy how he can ‘be useful’, why world leaders are failing to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict and why America needs a new candidate to enter the presidential race, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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36m
Mikaela Loach on fighting the climate crisis through social justice and being a ‘soft Black girl’
Activist Mikaela Loach tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why we need to reframe our understanding of the climate crisis in order to tackle its root causes, and why only through “active hope” and collective action can we radically transform our world for the better, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.