Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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.

Website

Every guest on Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

136 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

1. —
   Bassem Youssef

   Comedian Bassem Youssef on the Israel-Gaza war, the Arab Spring, and why we can’t change the world · Apr 2024

   0 votes

   Never again
2. —
   Brian Cox

   Brian Cox on Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and greed in politics · Feb 2025

   0 votes

   Never again
3. —
   Bernie Sanders

   Bernie Sanders on Gaza, genocide and Trump · Feb 2024

   0 votes

   Never again
4. —
   Arnold Schwarzenegger

   Arnold Schwarzenegger on self-help, the Israel-Gaza war and why he'd be a good US president · Dec 2023

   0 votes

   Never again
5. —
   Jimmy Wales

   Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on the crisis of trust in the age of Trump · Oct 2025

   0 votes

   Never again
6. —
   Jonathan Haidt

   How social media DESTROYED childhood and how to get it back - Jonathan Haidt · Jul 2026

   0 votes

   Never again
7. —
   Rick Rubin

   Rick Rubin on working with Run DMC, The Strokes, Slayer and Johnny Cash and how to be an artist · Jan 2023

   0 votes

   Never again
8. —
   Nate Silver

   Nate Silver on Trump-Harris election, Elon Musk and AI · Sep 2024

   0 votes

   Never again
9. —
   Hannah Ritchie

   Hannah Ritchie on replacing eco-anxiety with 'cautious optimism' and how to build a more sustainable world · Feb 2024

   0 votes

   Never again
10. —
    Peter Frankopan

    Peter Frankopan on how humans have shaped the planet and how we’ll destroy ourselves · Mar 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
11. —
    Simon Le Bon

    Simon Le Bon on the secret to Duran Duran’s success and why the band shy away from politics · Mar 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
12. —
    Ice Cube

    Ice Cube on the police, AI and Black business · Sep 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
13. —
    Jon Ronson

    Algorithms, angry men and the collapse of reality - Jon Ronson · Sep 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
14. —
    Ai Weiwei

    Ai Weiwei on China and the West, his father’s exile and if democracy really exists · Apr 2022

    0 votes

    Never again
15. —
    Michael Pollan

    Michael Pollan on his belief that using psychedelics can cure mental health issues · Jul 2022

    0 votes

    Never again
16. —
    Amanda Knox

    Amanda Knox: the cost of being wrongfully convicted · Apr 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
17. —
    Barbara Kingsolver

    Barbara Kingsolver on America’s opioid crisis and classist attitudes to rural communities · Jun 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
18. —
    George Saunders

    ‘We are being beaten into submission with lies’ - writer George Saunders on Trump, truth and power · Feb 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
19. —
    Mariana Mazzucato

    Mariana Mazzucato on how governments can take back control of their contracts · Mar 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
20. —
    Cory Doctorow

    'Enshitification' and how big tech is making the internet worse for everyone - Cory Doctorow · Dec 2025

    0 votes

    Never again
21. —
    Francis Fukuyama

    Francis Fukuyama: ‘The old United States is NOT COMING BACK’ · 2 episodes

    0 votes

    Never again
22. —
    Tim Berners-Lee

    Risks of AI becoming smarter than humans - web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee · Sep 2025

    0 votes

    Never again
23. —
    Armistead Maupin

    Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household · Mar 2024

    0 votes

    Never again
24. —
    Asma Khan

    Asma Khan on her female run restaurant Darjeeling Express and discrimination in hospitality · Jul 2022

    0 votes

    Never again
25. —
    Baaba Maal

    Baaba Maal on the power of music and the future of Africa · Feb 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
26. —
    Billy Porter

    Billy Porter on being a queer Black man in the music industry, the actors' strike and Trump's America · Dec 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
27. —
    Cariad Lloyd

    Cariad Lloyd on coping with grief and finding humour in death · Feb 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
28. —
    Carlo Rovelli

    Carlo Rovelli: Are we sleepwalking towards nuclear war? · 2 episodes

    0 votes

    Never again
29. —
    Deborah Meaden

    Deborah Meaden on the cost of living crisis, why she hated school and how Dragons’ Den has transformed the business world · Aug 2022

    0 votes

    Never again
30. —
    Edward Enninful

    Edward Enninful on his career as the editor of British Vogue, being a refugee and the war on woke · Sep 2022

    0 votes

    Never again
31. —
    Frances O'Grady

    Frances O’Grady on strikes, single parents and the trade union movement · Jan 2023

    0 votes

    Never again
32. —
    Heston Blumenthal

    How bipolar and ADHD shaped Heston Blumenthal’s creative genius · Mar 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
33. —
    Ian McEwan

    Ian McEwan: what gives renowned author hope in an age of crisis? · Sep 2025

    0 votes

    Never again
34. —
    Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende on her life as a refugee, the decline of the West and war being a male construct · Mar 2022

    0 votes

    Never again
35. —
    Jacinda Ardern

    Jacinda Ardern on how to lead, Trump and Israel-Iran · Jun 2025

    0 votes

    Never again
36. —
    James Graham

    What Gareth Southgate can teach Britain - ‘Dear England’ writer James Graham · Jun 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
37. —
    Jay Rayner

    ‘Expensive restaurants are all the same’ - Jay Rayner · Sep 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
38. —
    Johnny Marr

    Johnny Marr on the ‘MAGIC’ behind The Smiths · Sep 2026

    0 votes

    Never again
39. —
    Jude Kelly

    Jude Kelly: what feminism looks like in the age of 'strong men' politics · Mar 2025

    0 votes

    Never again
40. —
    Justin Welby

    ‘Don’t treat those who disagree with you as your enemy’ - Archbishop Justin Welby · Jun 2022

    0 votes

    Never again