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Amanpour and Company

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.

September 13, 2024

55m 47s

Kholood Khair, a Sudanese journalist, joins the show to shed light on what some call a forgotten crisis in Sudan. Cindy McCain, Director of the World Food Programme, describes the hardship that has spread across Sudan since the outbreak of war. Saad Mohseni on his memoir and the struggle for a free and independent press in Afghanistan. Jerusalem Demsas on the housing crisis in America.

Episodes

  • October 11, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    October 11, 2021

    S2021 E4073 - 55m 49s

    Michel Barnier, the EU's unflappable Brexit negotiator, has laid out his experience in a new book called "My Secret Brexit Diary." Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is on a state visit in New Delhi now, to convey the urgency of the climate crisis. In its 138-year history, the Metropolitan Opera has never hosted a performance by a Black composer -- until now.

  • October 5, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    October 5, 2021

    S2021 E4069 - 55m 58s

    Fiona Hill; Kim Carr; Sheena Greitens; Ryan Hampton

  • October 4, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    October 4, 2021

    S2021 E4068 - 55m 48s

    Gerard Ryle; Sheera Frenkel; Jonathan Franzen; Kate Bowler

  • October 1, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    October 1, 2021

    S2021 E4067 - 55m 46s

    Heidi Heitkamp; Faiz Shakir; Yogita Bhayana; Jamie Klingler; David Chase; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  • September 30, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 30, 2021

    S2021 E4066 - 55m 49s

    The European Commission's Vice-President discusses the migrant crisis. The Atlantic's Ed Yong explains how we can prepare for the next pandemic. "Sex Education" creator Laurie Nunn discusses the show's third season.

  • September 27, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 27, 2021

    S2021 E4063 - 55m 47s

    Dr. Rochelle Walensky; Anna Sauerbrey; Anne Applebaum; Jane Mayer

  • September 24, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 24, 2021

    S2021 E4062 - 55m 36s

    Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses her new book "Saving Us." Colombia’s outgoing president Iván Duque reflects on his time in office. The New York Times' Berlin bureau chief Katrin Bennhold reflects on the end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year chancellorship in Germany. YouTube's Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan explains how the platform is handling the misinformation crisis.

  • September 23, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 23, 2021

    S2021 E4061 - 55m 40s

    Donna Shalala; Betsey Stevenson; Lingling Wei; Kathryn Sherman; Mary Roach

  • September 21, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 21, 2021

    S2021 E4059 - 55m 32s

    Victor Gao; Anthony Gardner; Bridget Cambria; Lee McIntyre

  • September 20, 2021: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    September 20, 2021

    S2021 E4058 - 55m 36s

    The United Nations General Assembly week has kicked off in New York. The President of the European Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees each join Christiane to discuss. Plus: Filmmaker and actor Justin Chon discusses his new film "Blue Bayou," and singer/songwriter Yola explains the inspiration behind her new album "Stand for Myself."

Extras + Features

  • What's Next for the U.S. in Afghanistan?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What's Next for the U.S. in Afghanistan?

    S2021 E4050 - 2m 50s

    With Afghanistan's food supplies, finances, and public services on the point of collapse, the U.S. and its allies now must decide on a course of action. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has just concluded a congressional delegation to the region.

  • Nate From "Ted Lasso" Discusses the Show's Success: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nate From "Ted Lasso" Discusses the Show's Success

    S2021 E4050 - 2m 56s

    During the pandemic, one unlikely TV show has become a tonic for our troubled times. "Ted Lasso" follows the journey of an American college football coach hired by a struggling English Premier League football team. The show has won a truckload of awards and its second season is currently airing on Apple TV+. One of its stars is Nick Mohammed, who holds an Emmy nomination for his role as Nate.

  • What's America's Role on the World Stage?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What's America's Role on the World Stage?

    S2021 E4050 - 2m 56s

    What is America’s appropriate role on the world stage? Kori Schake has held top jobs in the Defense and State Departments and worked as a foreign policy advisor to Senator McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. She currently is director of foreign and defense policy at the conservative American Institute Policy.

  • FBI Special Agent: We Are In More Danger Now Than After 9/11: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    FBI Special Agent: We Are In More Danger Now Than After 9/11

    S2021 E4050 - 17m 59s

    Will Afghanistan become a terrorist safe haven? Few people are better placed to answer than Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent who made his name investigating Al-Qaeda plots before 9/11. He speaks with Michel Martin about why the terrorist threat is far from over, and why he believes a more dangerous phase has begun.

  • TX Abortion Ruling: “Insulting and Abuse of the Judiciary”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    TX Abortion Ruling: “Insulting and Abuse of the Judiciary”

    S2021 E4049 - 18m 4s

    The Justice Department is vowing to protect Texas clinics from prosecution for providing abortions, upping the ante after the state brought in a new law attempting to gut Roe v. Wade. Slate senior editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick has been following the Texas case closely. She joins Michel Martin to analyze the latest developments.

  • Desmond Shum on His Missing Wife's Reappearance: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Desmond Shum on His Missing Wife's Reappearance

    S2021 E4049 - 2m 49s

    Whitney Duan and her then-husband Desmond Shum were rising stars in China’s business world, but after Shum left the country, Duan disappeared without a trace. Nobody had heard a word from her for years – until Saturday when she called Shum and pleaded that he not publish his new book, which promises to pull back the curtain on Xi Jinping’s China. Shum joins the program to discuss.

  • Fmr. CA Gov. Jerry Brown on the Climate Crisis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fmr. CA Gov. Jerry Brown on the Climate Crisis

    S2021 E4049 - 3m

    According to the Washington Post, nearly one in three Americans live in a county hit by a weather disaster in the last three months. As Governor of California, Jerry Brown was one of the first national politicians to address the climate crisis and joins the show to discuss what must be done.

  • Carol Moseley Braun Reacts to Texas Abortion Law: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Carol Moseley Braun Reacts to Texas Abortion Law

    S2021 E4048 - 2m 59s

    A recent decision by the Supreme Court allows a new Texas law to all but ban access to abortion as guaranteed by Roe v. Wade in 1973. With similar cases pending, many are expressing fear that the decision will set a precedent. To reflect on Texas and what comes next, Christiane speaks with the U.S. Senate’s first Black female senator, Carol Moseley Braun.

  • Will a Robot Take Your Job? How AI Will Shape Our Future: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Will a Robot Take Your Job? How AI Will Shape Our Future

    S2021 E4048 - 17m 13s

    Bestselling author Kai-Fu Lee knows the world of tech like no other. Once the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft and Apple, he is now CEO of Sinovation Ventures. His new collection of short stories imagines how artificial intelligence will shape the way we live and work, for better and for worse, as he explains to Hari Sreenivasan.

  • What to Expect From American Foreign Policy: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What to Expect From American Foreign Policy

    S2021 E4048 - 2m 57s

    With President Biden’s domestic agenda looking shaky and global allies wondering what to expect from American foreign policy, we turn to a pair of powerhouse journalists, co-authors who also happen to be married. The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser and The New York Times’s Peter Baker join the show to discuss all this as well as their biography of former Secretary of State James Baker – no relation.

  • The Harsh Reality Faced by Women in Afghanistan: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Harsh Reality Faced by Women in Afghanistan

    S2021 E4048 - 2m 7s

    To discuss the Taliban's attack on women’s rights, Christiane speaks with a youth activist who has chosen to stay in her country even as the Taliban takes control.

  • Life, Death and Football: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Life, Death and Football

    S2021 E4047 - 16m 45s

    Washington Post sports journalist Kent Babb follows a high school football season in his new book, "Across the River." Set in Louisiana--the state that reported the highest homicide rate in the country for 2019--Babb’s book is a stark look at the fight to keep young students out of the line of fire – and George Clooney has snapped up the film rights.

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