HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
Wed 18 Jan 2023
An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist
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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
Fri 13 Jan 2023
A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist
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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
Wed 11 Jan 2023
A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine
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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child
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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan鈥檚 opposition PTI party
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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
Wed 4 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist
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Hardtalk in 2022
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk鈥檚 most compelling interviews of the year
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Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party
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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party
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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights
Wed 14 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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Allen Ault: The most premeditated murder
Fri 9 Dec 2022
A 2014 interview with a former US official who became an opponent of the death penalty
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David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?
Wed 7 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the billionaire investor David Friedberg.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur meets the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed US lies about Vietnam
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London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?
Fri 2 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur is in the US to speak to San Francisco鈥檚 mayor
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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer
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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy
Mon 28 Nov 2022
How should society deal with public monuments to controversial figures from the past?
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Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who signed the Tigray peace deal on behalf of the TPLF
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Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the former analyst who leaked a trove of US military secrets
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Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?
Mon 21 Nov 2022
Zeinab Badawi interviews the president of Georgia
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Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Zeinab Badawi interviews one of the rising stars of South Africa's ruling party
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Mark Wolf: Does the world need a new anti-corruption court?
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Why an American judge thinks a new court is needed to put corrupt leaders on trial
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David Dimbleby: Are journalistic values under threat?
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Britain's most celebrated journalists
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Gerard Lyons: Is Britain's economy up to scratch?
Wed 9 Nov 2022
Can Britain鈥檚 economy bounce back, or is any optimism misplaced?
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Sauli Niinist枚: Finland's new strategic direction
Mon 7 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Finnish President
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Ben Hodges: Is Ukrainian victory inevitable?
Fri 4 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the former commander of the US army in Europe.
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Rafael Grossi: Is nuclear power ever risk-free?
Wed 2 Nov 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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Dimitar Kova膷evski: Can North Macedonia finally join the EU?
Mon 31 Oct 2022
We speak to the PM of North Macedonia and ask what's next for the young country
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Matthew Collins: Taking on the far right
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer and anti-racism campaigner
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Audrey Tang: Can Taiwan forge its own path?
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Taiwan's digital minister
