HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Episodes to download
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Mimoza Kusari-Lila - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Industry, Kosovo
Mon 8 Apr 2013
Are Kosovo and Serbia ready to address their bitter and dysfunctional relationship?
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Patrick Chinamasa - Justice Minister of Zimbabwe
Fri 5 Apr 2013
Is the relationship between the UK and Zimbabwe improving?
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Daniel Dennett 鈥� Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist
Mon 1 Apr 2013
Do humans want to live in a world where atheism rules and religion is dead?
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Major General Robert Mood - Former Head of UN Supervision Mission in Syria
Fri 29 Mar 2013
What should the outside world be doing as Syria sinks ever deeper into civil war?
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Alassane Ouattara - President of Ivory Coast
Wed 27 Mar 2013
Zeinab Badawi talks to the president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara.
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Kishore Mahbubani - Author and former diplomat
Mon 25 Mar 2013
Stephen Sackur speaks to Kishore Mahbubani, the former diplomat turned provocative thinker
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Gareth Thomas - Former Wales Rugby Captain
Fri 22 Mar 2013
Stephen Sackur speaks to Welsh rugby legend, Gareth Thomas.
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Victor Ponta - Prime Minister of Romania
Wed 20 Mar 2013
Zeinab Badawi talks to Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta.
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Kenneth Clarke - Conservative Government Minister, UK
Mon 18 Mar 2013
Stephen Sackur talks to veteran Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke.
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Theodor Meron - President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Fri 15 Mar 2013
Theodor Meron talks about the international legal framework for delivering justice.
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Moncef Marzouki - President of Tunisia
Wed 13 Mar 2013
The success of Tunisia's revolution has been threatened by growing internal tensions.
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Lord Bilimoria 鈥� Founder and Chairman, Cobra Beer
Mon 11 Mar 2013
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Indian born British entrepreneur, Karan Bilimoria.
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Timo Soini - Leader, The Finns Party
Fri 8 Mar 2013
A Finnish nationalist wants to see the Eurozone dismantled.
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AB Yehoshua - Author
Mon 4 Mar 2013
Can one of Israel's great writers chart a way for Israelis and Palestinians in conflict?
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Father Bernard Lynch - Priest and Psychotherapist
Fri 1 Mar 2013
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Father Bernard Lynch, one of a few openly gay Catholic priests.
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Gloria Steinem 鈥� Feminist activist and author
Wed 27 Feb 2013
How much of what Gloria Steinem hoped for and fought for has been achieved?
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Jon Huntsman - Republican Presidential Candidate 2011
Mon 25 Feb 2013
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Republican politician frequently at odds with his own party.
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Mamphela Ramphele - Politician and academic
Fri 22 Feb 2013
Stephen Sackur talks to the anti-apartheid activist about her new alternative to the ANC.
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Enrique Garcia - President - CAF - Development Bank of Latin America
Mon 18 Feb 2013
Is this Latin America's decade?
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Lucinda Creighton - Minister for European Affairs
Fri 15 Feb 2013
Can Dublin convince the world that it has bounced back from the brink of disaster?
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Fernando Carrera 鈥� Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Is Guatemala in danger of becoming a narco-state?
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Hossein Mousavian - Iranian Nuclear Negotiator
Mon 11 Feb 2013
As Iran's nuclear programme gets more sophisticated, does diplomacy have a chance?
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Mohammad Jawad - Plastic Surgeon
Fri 8 Feb 2013
Reconstructing the faces of women disfigured by acid attacks in Pakistan
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Renzo Piano - Architect
Wed 6 Feb 2013
"If you make something wrong, it's wrong forever" architect Renzo Piano on building design
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Lord Ouseley 鈥� Chairman, Kick It Out
Mon 4 Feb 2013
Veteran equality campaigner Lord Ouseley on tackling racism in football
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Paul Bhatti 鈥� Minister in Charge of National Harmony, Pakistan
Fri 1 Feb 2013
What hope is there for national harmony Pakistan?
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Mark Lynas - pro-GM campaigner
Wed 30 Jan 2013
What if genetically modified food is the solution to world hunger?
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Nigel Sheinwald - UK Ambassador to the US (2007 - 2012)
Mon 28 Jan 2013
Is the Cameron EU gambit in Britain's national interest?
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Mohamed El-Erian 鈥� CEO, PIMCO
Fri 25 Jan 2013
Are central bankers and politicians ready to take bold decisions in the quest for growth?
