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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‘Corbyn may not find it as easy this time’, says polling expert John Curtice
I spoke to the polling expert John Curtice – who’s professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde. I asked him first why people think this election is difficult to call.
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5m
Street artist Shepard Fairey: ‘Without hope, people don’t act’
The image that sums up Barack Obama’s inaugural presidential campaign – and, perhaps the most famous work by street artist Shepard Fairey, who’s made a thirty year career out of his uplifting, progressive designs – creating images that went viral, before there was such a thing as viral. Now along with an exhibition of his…
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Fracking halt ‘bluff and bluster’, says Lancashire Labour MP Cat Smith
Joining me now is the Conservative MP Bim Afolami – who’s on the all party Climate Change committee, Cat Smith who’s the MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood – neighbouring the Cuadrilla fracking site – and the Green party co-leader Jonathan Bartley.
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9m
Ken Loach: ‘I hope Labour will outlaw zero-hours contracts’
The subject of precarious work is the latest social issue tackled by film director Ken Loach, in his new film Sorry We Missed You which opens in cinemas today.
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Series 3, Episode 25: Led By Donkeys
Ben Stewart and Oliver Knowles are two of the four men behind Led By Donkeys – an anti-Brexit campaign group that has made its name by pasting politicians’ quotes on billboards to highlight their hypocrisy.
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Parliament is ‘representative of divided nation,’ says Tory MP
We talk to Conservative MP Victoria Prentis and Lib Dem MP Sam Gyimah.
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Tory peer’s warning on Grenfell: ‘If you keep it as a class issue, you are going to miss the big point’
We talk to Labour MP David Lammy, who lost a friend in the Grenfell Tower fire, and Lord Porter who – until this summer – was the chairman of the Local Government Association and is now its building safety spokesman.
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‘They think its an absolute stinker’ Brexit Party Chairman Richard Tice says ERG members privately tell him a different view of the Brexit deal
We spoke to Richard Tice, Chairman of the Brexit Party.
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Peter Oborne: ‘Downing Street putting out fake news’
Are political journalists being conned by Number 10 and spreading lies?
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Tony Smith, former UK Border Force, on Essex lorry deaths: ‘This is all about money, international organised crime’
Satbir Singh is chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Richard Burnett is chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, and Tony Smith is the former director general of the UK Border Force.
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42m
Series 3, Episode 24: Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is one of the most influential contemporary artists in the western world. He talks to Krishan about the impact of his street art, his brand Obey Giant and challenging social conformity.
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Series 3, Episode 23: Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist and filmmaker. She has recently released her latest book ‘On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal’, which explores how bold climate action she says can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.
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Tory MP Andrew Mitchell ‘horrified’ by US troop withdrawal in Syria
Andrew Mitchell is a former International Development Secretary.
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Labour’s Laura Pidcock: ‘Election triggered as soon as we can make sure we are not crashing out of EU’
Shadow Business Minister Laura Pidcock and Conservative MP Bim Afolami discuss the Queen’s Speech.
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Senior Adviser to President Erdogan: ‘We have had to take matters into our own hands’
We are joined from Istanbul by Gulnur Aybet, senior adviser to President Erdogan.
