HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
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Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chief justice of Ethiopia's Supreme Court
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Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil
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Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds
Mon 11 Jul 2022
An influential writer argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti-racist
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Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?
Fri 8 Jul 2022
Nury Turkel is leading the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs
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Steve Thompson: Rugby's traumatic legacy
Wed 6 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a former rugby player living with early-onset dementia
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Lord Patten: Were promises to Hong Kong broken?
Fri 1 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to the former governor of Hong Kong
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K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to choose between the US and China?
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Singapore鈥檚 minister of home affairs
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Henry Huiyao Wang: Is China exposing its vulnerabilities?
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a China thinktank founder and sometime government adviser
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Jo茫o Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU鈥檚 Ambassador to the UK
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Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine鈥檚 deputy PM for European integration
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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Moldova's foreign minister and deputy prime minister
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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the European Space Agency
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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's ambassador to the UN
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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled female politician
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Dr Njoki Ngumi 鈥� Artist and film-maker
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?
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Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
Wed 1 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an internationally renowned Harvard historian
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Danica Roem: America's culture wars
Mon 30 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to America鈥檚 first transgender state lawmaker
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
Fri 27 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of Uruguay
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Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
Wed 25 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the secretary general of Nato
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Iv谩n Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
Mon 23 May 2022
Does the Duque Presidency signal the conclusive failure of Colombia鈥檚 ruling elite?
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Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
Fri 20 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of America's biggest Christian preachers
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Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
Wed 18 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the wife of the Wikileaks founder
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Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
Mon 16 May 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the CEO of Save the Children International
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Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
Fri 13 May 2022
Victoria Spartz, Republican Congresswoman is an ardent advocate of US support for Kyiv
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Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
Wed 11 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee
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Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
Mon 9 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Jim Green, former chief scientist at Nasa
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Zolt谩n Kov谩cs: Whose side is Hungary really on?
Fri 6 May 2022
Zolt谩n Kov谩cs, Hungary鈥檚 Secretary of State for International Communication on Russia
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Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
Wed 4 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the financier and anti-Putin campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act
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Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Mon 2 May 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
