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The Amanpour Hour

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April 20, 2024
• Interview With Former Chief Of British Intelligence, Sir John Sawers; Interview With Czech President Petr Pavel; America's Vital Counterweight To China Charts Political Future; Ukrainian Maestro On Defiance And Unity Through Music; Interview With Ukrainian Conductor Oksana Lyniv; The Aborted Nuclear Deal That Could Have Reshaped The Middle East; Why Are MAGA Republicans Parroting Russian Propaganda. Aired 11a-12p ET


April 13, 2024
• Interview With Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Interview With One Of The Exonerated Central Park Five And New York City Councilmember For Harlem Yusef Salaam; Heartbreak For Chibok Families 10 Years On; Chief Climate Reporter On Staying Hopeful Despite Global Warming; Peacemakers Blair, Clinton And Ahern Reunite; Terence Blanchard's Showstopping Opera Returns. Aired 11a-12p ET


April 06, 2024
• Israel Isolated And Divided After Six Months Of War; Interview With Daughter Of Hamas Hostages Yocheved And Oded Lifshitz, Sharon Lifshitz; Interview With Comedian Bassem Youssef; Thirty Years Since Rwanda Genocide Shocked The World; Science And Spiritualism Collide As Eclipse Mania Sweeps U.S.; Interview With "Mamma Mia" Creator Judy Craymer; Jane Goodall At 90. Aired 11a-12p ET


March 30, 2024
• The Kremlin's High-Stakes Game Of Hostage Diplomacy; Interview With Wife Of Jailed Russian Opposition Figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Evgenia Kara-Murza; Interview With State Department Staffer Who Resigned In Protest Annelle Sheline; Interview With Nephew Of Hostage Abraham Munder, Zahiro-Shahar Mor; How Is Musk's Starlink Falling Into Russian Soldiers' Hands?; Global Firebrand Feminist Gloria Steinem Turns 90. Aired 11a-12p ET


March 23, 2024
• Russia: At least 133 Killed, 100 Plus Injured In Concert Hall Attack; Support Pours In For Princess Catherine After Cancer Diagnosis; Congress Averts Government Shutdown, Passes Funding Bill; Why Are So Many Of Us More Unhappy Than Ever; Interview With U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; Interview With IRC President David Miliband; The Legacy That Set Putin's Russia On The Path To Dictatorship; The Original Trolls: Poison Pen Letters. Aired 11a-12p ET


March 16, 2024
• Interview With Former U.S. Ambassador To Russia John Sullivan; Interview With Jordanian Queen Rania Al Abdullah; Interview With NASA Administrator Bill Nelson; Haiti's Historical Cycle Of Violence And Poverty; Interview With Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. Aired 11a-12p ET


March 09, 2024
• France Future-Proofs Abortion As U.S. Reverses Women's Rights; Interview With Former French Minister Marlene Schiappa; Interview With former Israeli Held Hostage By Hamas, Chen Almog-Goldstein; U.N. Warns Widespread Famine "Almost Inevitable" Without Aid; Shock Therapy And Poverty In Capitalist Curious-Russia; Troops Ration Ammo As Ukraine Holds Out For Vital U.S. Aid; Interview With "20 Days In Mariupol" Director Mstyslav Chernov. Aired 11a-12p ET


March 02, 2024
• Interview With The Secretary General Of Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland; Interview With Mary Trump; Troubled Waters: Cat And Mouse With China Off Taiwan's Coast; The "Circular Logic and Destructive Obsession with Biden's Age"; Surviving Sarajevo; "God Save Texas". Aired 11a-12p ET


February 24, 2024
• Situation Critical As War-Weary Ukraine Awaits Crucial Aid; Interview With Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba; Ukraine Ramps Up New Recruit Training To Replace Dead And Injured; Poison Politics And The True Origin Of Putin's Invasion; Interview With "The Zone Of Interest" Director Jonathan Glazer; Battlefield Ballet. Aired 11a-12p ET


February 17, 2024
• Interview With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Interview With "Kiss the Future" Producer And Actor Matt Damon; Nepalis Recruited By Russia Suffer Horrors Of War In Ukraine; Legend Jodie Foster Revives "True Detective" Series; Afghanistan's Painful Lessons On The Legacy Of War. Aired 11a-12p ET


February 10, 2024
• GOP Snatches Defeat from Jaws of victory as Border Bill Tanks; The Remarkable Resilience of Ukraine's War-Weary Children; Fact vs. Fiction: What the Polls Aren't Telling You; 45th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution; Kim's Convenience Truth. Aired 11a-12p ET


February 03, 2024
• Clean Industrial Revolution Kicks Into Life to Save the Planet; Interview with Former Vice President Al Gore on the Climate Crisis Fight; Interview with DeepMind Founder Mustafa Suleyman on Artificial Intelligence. Aired 11:15a-12p ET


January 27, 2024
• Interview With Daniel Levy; Interview With "Origin" Director Ava Duvernay; Ukrainian Troops Facing Critical Ammunition Shortages; Interview With NASA Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy; Israeli Settlements And The Problematic Path To Peace. Aired 11a-12p ET


January 20, 2024
• Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom; What the World Really Thinks About Trump's Political Comeback; Volunteer Doctor Reveals Scale Of Gaza Civilian Catastrophe; Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu's Senior Adviser Mark Regev. Aired 11a-12p ET


January 13, 2024
• Genocide VS Self-Defense: The Case Against Israel; Interview With Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Israel Strikes On Gaza Hospitals; Interview With Professor Scott Galloway; Interview With America Ferrera; Breakthrough In The Balkans. Aired 11a-12p ET


January 06, 2024
• How Crises Overseas Could Determine America's Next President; Interview With Ret. Gen. David Petraeus; One-On-One With IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva; Amphibious Assault Ship Now A Hospital For Gaza Carnage Victims; Superstar Lenny Kravitz On Life, Legacy And Vying for Oscar Glory; The Atheist And The Pope. Aired 11a -12p ET


December 30, 2023
• 2023 Year In Review: Humanity's Hope Amid Global Turmoil; Include Or Exclude Fossil Fuel Giants In Climate Crisis Action; Exclusive Interview With American Inmate In Infamous Prison; Citizen Soldier Drone Pilots Taking The Fight To The Russians; Interview With Yo-Yo Ma On Reconnecting With The Outdoors. Aired 11a-12p ET


December 23, 2023
• Is The West Letting Putin Win?; Interview With Jens Stoltenberg; Interview With John Kerry; Interview With Adam Driver; Is War In Gaza Creating A New Generation Of Enemies For Israel; Interview With Marina Abramovic. Aired 11a-12p ET


December 16, 2023
• Putin Waits Out The West; COP28: Breakthrough Or Breakdown; Former COP President's Verdict On Climate Summit; Bleak Taliban Rule Sparks Surch In Female Suicides In Afghanistan; Vogue: Still In Fashion 131 Years Later. Aired 11a-12p ET


December 09, 2023
• Billionaire Eco Warrior Blocked From Climate Summit Port; To The Moon With Tom Hanks; Does The West Share Any Blame For The Carnage in Gaza; No Cell Will Silence Her. Aired 11a-12p ET


December 02, 2023
• Can Dream Of Two-State Solution Survive The Current Carnage; Journalist Who Captured Dawn Of Putin's War Sound Alarm; The Many Voices Of Grammy-Winning Musician Jacob Collier; No Place Like Home For Romanians Who Rebuilt Their Lost Lives; 10 Years Since The Uprising That Led To Putin's Ukraine Invasion. Aired 11a-12p ET


November 25, 2023
• Did Not Air 11a-12p ET


November 18, 2023
• Face to Face: Can Biden & Xi Avert A New War? Interview With Ambassador Rahm Emanuel; Middle East Distraction Is The "Perfect Situation" For Putin; Interview With Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite; Amanpour Archive: Interview With The "Butcher Of Bosnia"; "American Symphony". Aired 11a-12p ET


November 11, 2023
• Netanyahu's Endgame Unclear As Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Deepens; Everybody Loves Raimondo; Interview With Commerce Secretary; The Tale Of The Capitalist And the Communist; Is Technology Reprogramming Our Relationships. Aired 11a-12p ET


November 04, 2023
• Interview with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry; Interview with former British MI6 Chief Sir John Sawers; Interview with U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Jane Hartley; Remembering a Martyr for Peace; United by Grief: Israelis and Palestinians Working Together. Aired 11a-12p ET