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

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

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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

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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights

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

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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?

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

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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

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Hardtalk in 2022

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

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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

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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?

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

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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world

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

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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

• 23 mins

Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela’s opposition.

• 23 mins

Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran

• 23 mins

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain

• 23 mins

Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser

• 23 mins

Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary’s Prime Minister

• 23 mins

Pervez Musharraf: Power in Pakistan

A 2014 interview with the former president of Pakistan, who has died aged 79

• 23 mins

Kira Rudik: Can Ukraine win this war?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Ukrainian MP who leads the opposition party Golos

• 23 mins

Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who led Human Rights Watch for three decades

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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights

Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Britain’s biggest rail union the RMT

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Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM

Stephen Sackur speaks to Somali-born model and activist, Waris Dirie.

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Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Canadian doctor and assisted dying advocate

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