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

Episodes

  • Vassily Nebenzia: Is Russia influencing global opinions?

    07/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur is in New York City, home of the United Nations, to speak to Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN. Ambassador Nebenzia is a key player in Vladimir Putin’s combative diplomatic strategy to accuse the West of seeking to impose its will on the world, from Ukraine to the Middle East. How effective is Moscow in the battle for world opinion?

  • José Ramos-Horta: Peace and reconciliation

    05/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to José Ramos Horta, President of Timor-Leste. Are there lessons for the world to learn from his extraordinary life?

  • Abdalla Hamdok: Can Sudan find peace?

    01/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Zeinab Badawi speaks to the former prime minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok. He is at the heart of negotiations to bring peace to the country after ten months of conflict, in which thousands have died and millions have been displaced. Can his efforts succeed?

  • Ronald Lamola: Is South Africa's genocide case against Israel a geo-political game changer?

    31/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to South African justice minister Ronald Lamola, a key player in the country’s genocide case against Israel presented to the International Court of Justice. The court’s preliminary ruling has made little immediate difference to the war in Gaza, but longer term could it be a geo-political game changer?

  • Jasvinder Sanghera: Abuse and the Church of England

    29/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Jasvinder Sanghera, who as a child escaped a forced marriage and has been a lifelong advocate for survivors of abuse. She was hired by the Church of England to help them confront abuse allegations. But she and they are now at odds. What went wrong?

  • Radek Sikorski: Will Poland's new government unite or divide the country?

    26/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski. Poland has been a key pillar of the Western alliance supporting Ukraine against Putin’s invasion, but is war fatigue undermining that bond? And is Poland's new government going to unite the country or divide it?

  • Naomi Alderman: Apocalypse soon?

    24/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer and computer game creator Naomi Alderman. Her latest novel - The Future - is a techno thriller set at the end of days. Is the apocalypse she imagines all too possible?

  • Regina Ip: What is Hong Kong's future?

    22/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Regina Ip, an influential pro-Beijing lawmaker in Hong Kong. For years China has been tightening its grip on the territory it took back from Britain. Pro-democracy activism, political opposition and press freedom have all been curtailed. So what is Hong Kong’s future?

  • Mark Regev: Is Israel serving its own best interests?

    18/01/2024 Duration: 22min

    Stephen Sackur talks to Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel’s prime minister. Israel’s relentless military response to Hamas’s assault on 7 October has unleashed a humanitarian nightmare in Gaza. Is Israel’s strategy serving its own best interests?

  • Mohammad Marandi: Is Middle East conflict what Iran really wants?

    17/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian academic who has advised his government during nuclear negotiations. Iran actively backs Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, but as the flashpoints in the Middle East multiply, is a regional war - with the US inevitably engaged - what Tehran really wants?

  • Sir Nicholas Winton: A Holocaust hero

    12/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Another chance to listen to Stephen Sackur's 2014 interview with the late Sir Nicholas Winton, the man who saved more than 600 mostly Jewish children from Nazi persecution. Nine years after his death, a major film has been released about his remarkable story. What motivated him?Image: Sir Nicholas Winton, pictured in 2015 (Credit: Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard via Getty Images)

  • Alicia Kearns: How much will 2024 test the West?

    10/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur talks to Alicia Kearns, Conservative MP and chair of the UK’s House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. She has long warned of the threat to democracies posed by authoritarian regimes, led by China. With a host of elections looming, is 2024 going to severely test the West?

  • Stephen Cave: Should we want to live forever?

    08/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to philosopher Stephen Cave, director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity. He is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity. Is it wise to seek to live forever?

  • Aida Touma-Sliman: What does war mean for Israel's Arab population?

    05/01/2024 Duration: 23min

    What does the Gaza war mean for Israel’s Arab population? Stephen Sackur speaks to Israeli politician Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian Arab member of Israel's parliament.

  • Past notes

    29/12/2023 Duration: 23min

    A special programme remembering past HARDtalk guests who died in 2023. All of them left an indelible mark on public life and all, in their different ways, relished the opportunity we gave them to discuss their decision-making and motivation.

  • 2023 in review

    27/12/2023 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur looks back at some of HARDtalk’s most impactful and thought-provoking interviews of 2023.

  • Naftali Bennett: Has Israel responded unwisely?

    20/12/2023 Duration: 22min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. He is a staunch supporter of Israel’s military assault in Gaza. But in responding to Hamas’s murderous October 7th attack, has Israel deployed wisdom as well as military might?

  • Paul Caruana Galizia – fighting for accountability and justice

    18/12/2023 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Paul Caruana Galizia whose mother Daphne was a journalist in Malta, and was assassinated for exposing endemic corruption and sleaze. Six years on have Daphne’s family won their fight for accountability and justice?

  • Izzeldin Abuelaish: Can Palestinians still believe in forgiveness and peace?

    15/12/2023 Duration: 23min

    Zeinab Badawi speaks to the Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose three daughters and niece were killed in an Israeli tank strike on his home in the Gaza Strip in 2009. At the time, he said he felt no bitterness, and soon after he published his award-winning autobiography, I Shall not Hate. Now he has lost 22 more family members in the current bombardment. Is he still preaching his message of forgiveness and peace?

  • Sandra Day O'Connor: The first female US Supreme Court judge

    11/12/2023 Duration: 23min

    The framers of the American Constitution harboured few illusions about human nature, and that’s why they invested so much significance in the US Supreme Court, the ultimate check on executive and legislative power. Sandra Day O’Connor, who died days ago at the age of 93, was the first woman to be appointed as a justice in this court. For 25 years, she was one of its most influential voices. HARDtalk travelled to Washington DC in 2006 to speak to her.Image: Sandra Day O'Connor, pictured in 2003 (Credit: Tom Mihalek/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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