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Ben Hodges: Is Ukrainian victory inevitable?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former commander of the US army in Europe.

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Sauli Niinistö: Finland's new strategic direction

Stephen Sackur speaks to the Finnish President

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Gerard Lyons: Is Britain's economy up to scratch?

Can Britain’s economy bounce back, or is any optimism misplaced?

• 23 mins

David Dimbleby: Are journalistic values under threat?

Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Britain's most celebrated journalists

• 23 mins

Mark Wolf: Does the world need a new anti-corruption court?

Why an American judge thinks a new court is needed to put corrupt leaders on trial

• 23 mins

Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?

Zeinab Badawi interviews one of the rising stars of South Africa's ruling party

• 23 mins

Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?

Zeinab Badawi interviews the president of Georgia

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Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former analyst who leaked a trove of US military secrets

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Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who signed the Tigray peace deal on behalf of the TPLF

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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy

How should society deal with public monuments to controversial figures from the past?

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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life

Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer

• 23 mins

London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?

Stephen Sackur is in the US to speak to San Francisco’s mayor

• 23 mins

Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?

Stephen Sackur meets the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed US lies about Vietnam

• 23 mins

David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the billionaire investor David Friedberg.

• 23 mins

Allen Ault: The most premeditated murder

A 2014 interview with a former US official who became an opponent of the death penalty

• 23 mins

Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights

Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates

• 23 mins

Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party

• 23 mins

Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party

• 23 mins

Hardtalk in 2022

Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk’s most compelling interviews of the year

• 23 mins

02/01/2023 GMT

In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.

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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist

• 23 mins

Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan’s opposition PTI party

• 23 mins

Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world

Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child

• 23 mins

Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin

A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine

• 23 mins

Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures

A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist

• 23 mins

Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past

Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist

• 23 mins

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?

An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization

• 23 mins

Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?

Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula’s foreign policy advisor

• 23 mins

Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin

Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave

• 23 mins

Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s foreign minister

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