به عبارت دیگر

به عبارت دیگر is a BBC Persian interview program with a distinctly serious editorial temperament. It favors explanation over performance. The show’s recent conversations are rooted in politics, culture, literature, law, and the moral pressure of public life. Its questions are direct, but the answers are given room to expand. A discussion may begin with a book, a film, a referendum, or a memoir, then widen into the history that produced it. Sadiqa Wasmaghi’s episode uses hijab, jurisprudence, prison, and protest to examine the control of women and the authority claimed in religion’s name. Mehrdad Wahhabi’s conversation turns the 1958 referendum into a question about legitimacy, constitutional design, and the machinery of power. Nasrin Sotoudeh speaks from the language of law, prison experience, solidarity, and the abolition of the death penalty. Amir Hassan Cheltan brings Tehran into view as a city shaped by literature, fear, censorship, injustice, and long political memory. The Angela Merkel episode shifts the lens outward, weighing European leadership, Russia, Ukraine, migration, and the afterlife of power. Gholshifteh Farahani’s conversation is more intimate, but no less political, tracing acting, language, exile, Iranian cinema, and the pull of home. The program is not built for quick takes. It is patient. It repeats when repetition clarifies. It asks guests to define what they mean and to place personal memory inside a larger public argument. That makes it especially useful for listeners who want Iranian and international public life treated with gravity rather than spectacle. Its strength lies in the accumulation of context: one conversation after another, each adding another angle on power, public life, culture, and the cost of speaking plainly.