Odd Lots - Introducing: The Mishal Husain Show

Episode Date: October 19, 2025

Make sense of the world with one essential conversation, every week. Mishal Husain, one of Britain's best interviewers, brings her signature blend of curiosity and tenacity to weekly conversations with world leaders, business titans, and cultural icons, revealing who they really are and how they see the world changing around them.Follow the podcast wherever you listen, so you don't miss an episode.https://link.podtrac.com/iu94w2n4See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, I'm Michelle Hussein, and for more than 20 years, I was at the BBC, presiding over political debates. Welcome to the BBC Prime Ministerial debate. Covering international news. The United States has completed its military withdrawal from Afghanistan. And reporting on some pretty famous people. Your Royal Highness, Megan Markle, congratulations to you both. Thank you. It was thrilling to be in the front.

row to watch history unfold, even if I did have to get up at 3 a.m. most mornings. But all the time I was delivering the headlines, I wanted to go further than the news of the day. I wanted to talk about the ideas behind it, to spend more time with the people shaping our world. And that's what I'm doing here on this podcast from Bloomberg Weekend. I speak with people like Elon Musk. In terms of political spending, I'm going to do a lot less in the future. And why is that? I think I've done enough.

Prime Minister Kirstama. Recognising a Palestinian state was in your manifesto, do you want to be the British Prime Minister who delivers that? I'm clear, and our manifest was clear about our position on recognition. Cultural figures like Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. You are writing about that world of the super rich again, and there's a... Well, I wondered why. I believe I'm doing it because I'm interested in the power, not the money.

And Shonda Rhymes. How did you feel about Bridgeton being described as woke? I didn't know anybody described it as woke. The telegraph called it pandering to woke casting. Well, that's so cute. This is going to be a place where every weekend you'll hear one essential conversation. But I hope that it's also going to be a place with head, heart and soul. Personal, conversational.

Yeah, exactly. You might even enjoy it. So please join me. Listen and subscribe to the Michelle Hussein show from Bloomberg weekend, wherever you get your podcast. New episodes every Friday morning. You certainly ask interesting questions.