Krishnan Guru-Murthy is one of the main anchors of Channel 4 News.
He also fronts Channel 4 News' podcast 'Ways to Change the World' which interviews one guest at length each week about the big ideas in their lives and the events that have helped shape their thinking.
Since joining the team in 1998 he has fronted big events from the Omagh bombing, 9/11, the Mumbai attacks, to special war reports from Syria, Yemen and Gaza. Having covered five British general elections he does special political shows for Channel 4 such as the "Ask the Chancellors" debate.
Krishnan reports for the foreign affairs series Unreported World and commentates on major live events for Channel 4 such as the Paralympics Ceremonies. He also anchors controversial programmes outside the news including the first live televised "Autopsy".
His TV career began at the age of eighteen presenting youth television for the BBC. He went on to present, report and produce a variety of programmes from Newsround to Newsnight.
Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
We speak to the former Justice Secretary, Conservative MP Sir Robert Buckland – who is now the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee – about Operation Kenova.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Kiley Reid on Ways to Change the World about the importance of finding stability whilst being a writer, the impact of having a theatre background on her writing, and her thoughts on being social media savvy as an author.
Richard Hughes is Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which assesses the health of the UK’s economy and whose forecasts determine how much the Chancellor has to spend in the Budget.
We spoke to the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, whose job just became even harder if Labour wins the next election, as widely expected.
We spoke to the Conservative MP Bim Afolami, who’s the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and put it to him that the tax burden is still going up to historic highs.
We spoke to foreign office minister Andrew Mitchell.
Last week, Channel 4 News was in Iran covering the election and before leaving on Saturday, we interviewed Khalid Qaddoumi – the political representative of Hamas in Tehran.
There are no official figures out yet, but Iran’s state media says turnout in Friday’s election was a record low of 41 percent.
Earlier we spoke to Mohammad Hashemi – a political analyst in Tehran.
Here in Iran, they’ve just extended voting in their parliamentary elections til midnight. The regime kept the polls open in the hope more people would show.
We spoke to the exiled Russian journalist, Mikhail Zygar. I started by asking him if he was surprised that so many people came out to Navalny’s funeral in Moscow given the fact that the Kremlin was warning that they would be breaking the law.
We were joined by Sadegh Zibakalam, an outspoken academic and author here in Iran, who has been imprisoned in the past for speaking out against the Iranian regime.
In Iran, the regime’s popularity will be put to the test tomorrow in the first election since the mass protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. It’s been imploring people to come out and make their voices heard by voting – amid concerns of a record low turnout. But the mass…
We spoke to Aaron David Miller, who’s a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a former State Department diplomat who’s spent decades negotiating for peace in the Middle East. We began by asking how an event like today’s killing of Gazans waiting for food, could impact the ceasefire talks.