HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Episodes to download
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Pawel Jablonski: Could Poland exit the EU?
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Poland's deputy foreign minister
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Patrice Evra: The flaws in football
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Why a former Manchester United and France star has revealed his emotional scars
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Mike Leigh: Art and the cinema
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the world's most acclaimed directors
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Prime Minister Albin Kurti: Is he a source of instability in the Balkans?
Fri 5 Nov 2021
Albin Kurti has been a political prisoner and now sees Kosovo unifying with Albania
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Fiona Hill: What did Trump mean for America and the world?
Wed 3 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to a key witness in President Trump's first impeachment trial
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Fatih Birol: Can greenhouse gas emissions be eliminated?
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the executive director of the International Energy Agency
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Bruno Le Maire: Is France looking for a new economic direction?
Fri 29 Oct 2021
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has ambitions for a more dynamic and green economy
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Ariel Dorfman: Ghosts of the past
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the acclaimed Chilean-American writer
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David Baddiel, Comedian and writer
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and comedian David Baddiel
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Andrew Forrest: Mega-polluter turned climate revolutionary
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Why is an Australian mining billionaire trying to push a green agenda?
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Henry Marsh: A doctor arguing for assisted dying
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Why a neurosurgeon is lobbying for the legislation of assisted dying
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Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Is international justice an ideal which the world has signally failed to live up to?
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Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to Adela Raz, Afghanistan鈥檚 Ambassador to the United States
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Sergei Ryabkov: Russia and energy security
Wed 13 Oct 2021
As a spike in fossil fuel prices looks to benefit Russia, how will it flex its influence?
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Richard Deverell: The battle to save the planet
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Richard Thaler: Is a nudge enough to change our behaviour?
Fri 8 Oct 2021
Is a nudge better than a shove when change is needed?
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Ben Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Wed 6 Oct 2021
Have the Nuremberg trials made genocide and crimes against humanity less likely today?
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Michel Barnier on Brexit fallout
Fri 1 Oct 2021
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
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Rafael Grossi - Nuclear fallout
Wed 29 Sep 2021
We speak to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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Nitin Sawhney, Musician and Composer
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur interviews British Indian musician and composer Nitin Sawhney.
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Roger Deakins: How is technology changing cinema?
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the world's most celebrated cinematographers
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Bryan Hughes: Abortion in Texas
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Republicans in Texas have managed to ban abortion in almost all cases in their state
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Carlos Fernando Chamorro: Exiled from Nicaragua
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Why has Nicaragua slumped back into authoritarianism?
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Naomi Campbell, supermodel and businesswoman
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Supermodel Naomi Campbell speaks to Zeinab Badawi in an exclusive interview
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison: An explorer protecting indigenous lands
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur interviews an explorer protecting indigenous people and their lands
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Rudy Giuliani: Reflecting on 9/11
Fri 10 Sep 2021
First broadcast in September 2011. How did the 9/11 attacks change America?
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Nadia Calvi帽o: Is Europe too fragmented to shape the 21st Century?
Wed 8 Sep 2021
Stephen Sackur speaks to Spain's Deputy PM and Economy minister Nadia Calvi帽o
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Lindsey Graham: What is the Republican vision for America?
Mon 6 Sep 2021
How does America see itself and its place in the world?
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Omar Zakhilwal: What ideology will prevail in Afghanistan?
Wed 1 Sep 2021
Hardtalk speaks to a former minister who has been involved in talks with the Taliban
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Maggi Hambling: An evolving creative vision
Mon 30 Aug 2021
An acclaimed and sometimes controversial artist talks to Stephen Sackur
