Victoria Derbyshire's Interviews of the Week show

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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 VictoriaD: Unemployment Debate 15 Feb 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 103:55

Victoria Derbyshire hosts a debate on unemployment with 200 5 live listers asking where jobs of the future are being created.

 VictoriaD: Mark Kennedy, 02 Feb 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:43

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.

 VictoriaD: Sacha Williams-Rowe, 23 Jan 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:00

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.

 VictoriaD: Tax Inspectors 20 Dec 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:47

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.

 VictoriaD: John Darwin 09 Dec 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:57

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.

 VictoriaD: Christine Laird 7 Dec 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:48

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.

 VictoriaD: 23 Nov 11: Bernard Hogan-Howe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:25

The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, speaks to Victoria Derbsyhire about riots, undercover cops, swearing at police and tasers.

 VictoriaD: 15 Nov 11 : Riots Debate | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 101:22

100 days on from the Summer Riots, Victoria Derbyshire hosts a debate from Tottenham.

 VictoriaD: 03 Nov 11 : Dave Brialsford | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:40

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.

 VictoriaD: 21 Oct 11: Sir Michael Willshaw | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:02

The new head of OFSTED Sir Michael Wilshaw tells Victoria Derbyshire why he thinks too many teachers are underperforming.

 VictoriaD: Paul Gascoigne, 13 Oct 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:26

Paul Gascoigne tells Victoria how his recovery from alcoholism has progressed over the last two years.

 VictoriaD: Bahraini Medics, 30 Sept 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:07

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.

 VictoriaD: Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, 28 Sept 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:37

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.

 VictoriaD: Guantanamo Bay 09 Sept 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 95:41

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.

 VictoriaD: Manor Women's Project 21 Jul 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 75:26

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.

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