John Harris's national conversations - coming soon

Colonel Tim Collins, former commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment during the Iraq war, talks to John Harris about the Iraq war and the tension between the British and American armies

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative party, and the first Muslim woman to serve in a British cabinet, talks to John Harris

Poet and novelist Simon Armitage talks to John Harris about his observations of Britain and why he doesn't want to be labelled 'northern poet'

In the latest of our National Conversations series of interviews, Guardian columnist John Harris meets TV presenter, broadcaster and writer Lauren Laverne

In John Harris's latest interview in his National Conversations series, he challenges Richard Dawkins on his view that religious belief is comparable to a pernicious virus

The gloriously outspoken Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers talks to Guardian columnist John Harris in this second of his series of interviews with key figures from music, the media, government and elsewhere

Scotland's first minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond is the subject of the first of a new series of interviews by Guardian columnist John Harris

Introducing a new series of podcasts in which John Harris interviews key figures from government, music, the media, the military and more, about their lives and the state of the nation