October 13, 2025
First Episode Debuts October 17
LONDON (October 13, 2025) – Today Bloomberg announced the launch of “The Mishal Husain Show,” a new flagship global podcast premiering on October 17 as part of Bloomberg Weekend – Bloomberg’s weekly ideas and culture section.
Listen to the trailer here.
Each episode of the podcast will feature a single in-depth conversation with a newsmaker, leader, cultural figure or thinker, going beyond headlines to explore people and ideas shaping the world. “The Mishal Husain Show” develops Husain’s Bloomberg Weekend interviews, which began with Elon Musk in May and have continued since, drawing on a global guest list. The text Q&A will now continue alongside the podcast and related content, on Bloomberg.com, the Bloomberg Terminal, and multiple podcast platforms.
Husain’s interviews for Bloomberg in recent months have included UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, former Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull of Australia and Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, and creative powerhouses Shonda Rhimes and Jesse Armstrong. The text interview features additional notes and annotations from Husain and has been popular among Bloomberg subscribers.
The podcast will launch the same week Husain delivers the prestigious annual public lecture of the University of Oxford. Previous Romanes Lecturers have included British Prime Ministers William Gladstone, Winston Churchill and Tony Blair.
“The launch of the show is deeply resonant for me, offering the opportunity to speak to people who are at the forefront of these complex times, and those who can help us understand them,” said Husain. “We’ll be able to have conversations of range, depth and consequence, and I hope we will soon prove to be an essential and trusted weekly listen.”
“The Mishal Husain Show exemplifies the spirit of Bloomberg Weekend — expansive, thoughtful, ranging far and wide in both time and place,” said Katherine Bell, executive editor of Bloomberg Weekend. “Mishal’s curiosity and fearlessness as an interviewer are exactly what we need right now to help make sense of our chaotic and complicated world.”
“Mishal is a unique talent and we couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce her new show to our global audience,” said David Merritt, Head of Media Editorial at Bloomberg. “‘The Mishal Husain Show’ is about understanding the most interesting and influential people in the world, and also getting to know Mishal herself. It will be the cornerstone of Bloomberg Weekend, which is celebrating its first birthday and rapidly growing into a leading part of our offering to digital subscribers.”
Bloomberg Weekend launched one year ago in October 2024, providing global Bloomberg subscribers with distinctive content beyond the working week. The section can be accessed via the consumer website, Bloomberg.com, the Bloomberg app, as well as on the Bloomberg Terminal and was launched to help increase Bloomberg’s cross-platform audience and subscriber engagement on the weekends. Tapping into Bloomberg’s newsroom of 3000 journalists and analysts, Bloomberg Weekend features essays, reviews, interviews, reported features and dispatches from around the world, along with Saturday and Sunday newsletters.
Husain is editor at large for Bloomberg Weekend. She joined Bloomberg in 2025 from the BBC, where she presented its leading news programme Today on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Before joining Today in 2013, she was an anchor on BBC World News and has also been a familiar face to UK audiences on the main national news programmes. She was previously based in Washington and Singapore as an anchor for the BBC. Husain has fronted several critically acclaimed documentaries and was awarded the 2024 Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, by the British Journalism Review. She has written two books, most recently a family memoir: ‘Broken Threads: A Family From Empire to Independence’, which became a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller in hardback.
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