Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Presenter
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.
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38m
Series 7, Episode 6: Dale Vince
Dale Vince is a green energy industrialist and owner of ‘Ecotricity’. He’s also the owner of perhaps the greenest and only vegan football club, The Forest Green Rovers.
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4m
Bidens pay tribute to Duke’s charitable work
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have sent a message of condolence on behalf of the American people, paying tribute to the Duke’s charitable work and his “decades of devoted public service”.
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38m
Series 7, Episode 5: Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. He talks to Krishnan about why he thinks it’s important to push the boundaries of music, the future relationship between technology and music and why the best music is yet to come.
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6m
Race report is ‘wholescale operation in gaslighting much of our society’ says author Nels Abbey
We talk to Halima Begum, chief executive of the race equality think tank, The Runnymede Trust, and activist, satirist and author of ‘Think Like A White Man’, Nels Abbey.
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6m
‘BAME’ should not be used as a term ‘just because it suits one culture to say you’re not white’, says race report commissioner
We spoke to Samir Shah, a television producer, who’s one of the commissioners behind the report.
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4m
Derek Chauvin trial ‘carries the weight of the country’s history’, says Princeton’s Prof Eddie Glaude
We speak to Eddie Glaude, professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University.
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6m
Too easy for boys to access pornography, former home secretary says
The former home secretary Sajid Javid has released a new report about the wider issue of child abuse in the UK, something he describes as an “epidemic”.
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30m
Series 7, Episode 4: Nadia Whittome
Nadia Whittome is the youngest MP in the House of Commons. She was elected in 2019 to represent the seat of Nottingham East at the age of 23.
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4m
China is ‘a strategic threat not just to us, but to the free world’, says Sir Iain Duncan Smith
We spoke to the former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who’s one of the MPs on that sanctions list, and asked what he meant by wearing it as a “badge of honour”.
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9m
Alex Salmond says Alba Party will fill ‘void in the independence cause’
We spoke to Alex Salmond and put it to him that he’s upset a lot of Gaelic speakers with the pronunciation of his new party’s name.
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3m
Work is being done to convey to Liberia that Covid is ‘real and they need to get protected’, says WHO’s Dr Richard Mihigo
Dr Richard Mihigo is the Africa vaccination programme coordinator for the World Health Organization. We put it to him that it might be hard to persuade people in Liberia that Covid is as big a threat as Ebola.
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4m
‘Our job is to re-earn the trust and respect of the people of Liverpool,’ says Liverpool City Council chief executive
We spoke to Tony Reeves, the chief executive of Liverpool City Council, and began by asking him, when he took office in 2018 and saw how money was being spent, was he aghast?
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4m
‘Reciprocity is the magic word on both sides’ – Luxembourg MEP on EU’s vaccine exports
Christophe Hansen is a Luxembourg MEP who sits on both the European Parliament’s advisory group on vaccines and its committee on international trade.
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7m
‘Strong dissatisfaction’ over UK government’s sanctions decision – Chinese chargé d’affaires
Yang Xiaoguang is chargé d’affaires at the Chinese Embassy in London.
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Policing bill needs to be ‘rethought’- former chief constable Sir Peter Fahy
We spoke to Sir Peter Fahy, former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, and began by asking if the politicians are putting the police in an impossible position.
