Victoria Derbyshire's Interviews of the Week
Summary: The best moments from Victoria Derbyshire's morning programme, Monday - Friday on BBC Radio 5 live. Exclusive, news-making interviews, and powerful human interest stories.
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Victoria Derbyshire hosts a debate on unemployment with 200 5 live listers asking where jobs of the future are being created.
In an exclusive interview, Mark Kennedy - the undercover police officer who infiltrated a group of environmental activists - tells Victoria Derbyshire a report into his actions has made him into a pariah.
In an exclusive interview, a mother of four sent to prison for failing to give evidence against an ex-boyfriend who nearly killed her tells Victoria Derbyshire why she was too scared to do so.
After MPs accused the HMRC of giving large firms favourable treatment, 5 live listeners tell Victoria Derbyshire their experience at the hands of the taxman. Including Danny who described how he'd nearly been driven to suicide.
The man who faked his own death in a canoeing accident tells Victoria Derbyshire he regrets doing it but that he also regrets coming back to the UK from his hideaway in Panama.
A former council chief executive whose employers tried to sue her for a million pounds after she failed to reveal her history of depression speaks exclusively to Victoria Derbyshire. A High Court judge dismissed the case brought by Cheltenham Borough Council against Christine Laird - who's now been awarded maximum disability benefits for life.
The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, speaks to Victoria Derbsyhire about riots, undercover cops, swearing at police and tasers.
100 days on from the Summer Riots, Victoria Derbyshire hosts a debate from Tottenham.
British cycling's performance director Dave Brailsford tells Victoria Derbyshire it will be "very, very difficult, if not impossible" to win as many gold medals in London 2012 as they did in Beijing.
The new head of OFSTED Sir Michael Wilshaw tells Victoria Derbyshire why he thinks too many teachers are underperforming.
Paul Gascoigne tells Victoria how his recovery from alcoholism has progressed over the last two years.
Twenty doctors and nurses have been jailed for up to fifteen years each after being convicted of incitement to overthrow the Bahrain government. They say they were treating people injured when a protest movement calling for more rights for the country's Shia majority in the Sunni-ruled kingdom was crushed. The Government say the group were involved with "hardline protestors" who sought regime change. Victoria spoke to Dr Nada Dhaif who's been sentenced to 15 years and Dr Fatima Haji who's been sentenced to five years, as well as a spokesman for international media from Bahrain's Ministry of Information, Sheik Abdul Aziz.
The family of the most seriously wounded Allied soldier to survive fighting in Afghanistan tell Victoria Derbyshire he's being forced out of the Army. Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson has had both his legs amputated, is partly brain-damaged and has a broken back.
Victoria comes live from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay as part of 5 Live's coverage marking the anniversary of 9/11. She asks if the camp has changed in the 10 years since it was set up in the wake of the attacks.
Victoria Derbyshire goes back to the refuge for drug addicts and sex workers in Walsall she first visited two years ago. Here some amazing stories of women who've turned their lives around.