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Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Channel 4 News

How can you change the world? Join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and his guest of the week as they explore the big ideas influencing how we think, act and live.

Episodes

Megan Phelps-Roper on escaping an extremist cult, psychological imprisonment and fighting tribalism

Nov 20 2020 • 2584 MIN

Megan Phelps-Roper is a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church, an extremist American religious cult based in Topeka, Kansas. She was made famous by appearing in a series of documentaries mad...

The Dalai Lama on global warming, relations with China and coronavirus

Nov 13 2020 • 1437 MIN

The 14th and current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, like previous Dalai Lamas, is a figure of unification of the state of Tibet. He represents Buddhist values and traditions.  He has just released a ne...

David Miliband on the US election results, Trumpism and the future of the Labour Party

Nov 6 2020 • 2606 MIN

David Miliband, has had a varied career - from working as a policy analyst in Tony Blair’s Downing Street, ultimately becoming Foreign Secretary, to heading up an international charity, working wit...

Kim Darroch on the US election, Brexit and the UK-US 'special relationship’

Oct 30 2020 • 2465 MIN

Kim Darroch was a lifelong Foreign Office Diplomat to rose through the ranks to become British Ambassador to the United States between 2016 and 2019.   He hit the headlines last year when a private...

Alicia Garza on writing the rules, the power of a ballot box and making Black people the heroes of their own stories.

Oct 23 2020 • 2454 MIN

Alicia Garza has been campaigning since she was 12 years old. It’s no surprise then, that when she posted a “love letter to Black people" on Facebook in 2013, it sparked one of the biggest racial j...

Olivette Otele on a summer of race protests, imposter syndrome and the politics of memory

Oct 21 2020 • 2421 MIN

Olivette Otele is an historian who is currently Professor of History of Slavery at Bristol University and Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society. She is the first black female history profe...