John Harris's national conversations

Colonel Tim Collins, former commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment during the Iraq war, talks to John HarrisJohn HarrisLucy GreenwellAndy Gallagher

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

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'John HarrisLucy Greenwell

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

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 virusJohn HarrisLucy Greenwell

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 elsewhereJohn HarrisLucy Greenwell

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 HarrisJohn HarrisLucy Greenwell

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