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Find out what the world’s leading thinkers, politicians and cultural figures really think, as they talk about their lives for thirty minutes on The Interview.

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A half hour interview with interesting and prominent people from around the world with a great range of interests and opinions. Each week, one person is put under the spotlight by either Owen Bennett-Jones or Carrie Gracie, the two presenters on The Interview.  

They explore topical issues, personal motivation and interviewee's hopes and fears. The style is informal and conversational, but at times searching and combative when required.

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The Interview Archive: Eliot Spitzer, Former Governor of New York

14/11/2009

Eliot Spitzer, Former Governor of New York

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Leading investigations into the US's financial giants before resigning over a sex scandal

Carrie Gracie talks crashes -- personal and financial - with the man who led investigations into America's financial giants before resigning over a sex scandal

Eliot Spitzer was the toast of New York. As the city's Attorney General he exposed financial fraud at the highest levels and went on to be elected Governor and was even tipped as a future president. 

But then he had a dramatic fall from grace. He was identified as having paid for sex with prostitutes, resigned, and was forced to stand by and watch as the financial crash exposed exactly the problems he made a target years before.

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