Hardtalk

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Synopsis

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

Episodes

  • Chris Mullin: Have lessons been learned from the Birmingham Six injustice?

    20/03/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to the former politician and justice campaigner Chris Mullin. He did much to expose the miscarriage of justice which saw six men wrongly convicted of IRA bombings in Birmingham 50 years ago. Were the right lessons learned from that grave injustice?

  • Jan Egeland: Is the international community failing to protect the most vulnerable?

    18/03/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He’s just back from Gaza; before that, he was on the Chad/Sudan border. Hundreds of thousands of people are in life threatening danger. Is the international community failing to protect the most vulnerable?

  • Claude Joseph: Can anything save Haiti?

    14/03/2024 Duration: 23min

    Haiti is on the brink; armed gangs are rampant, basic services are broken, millions of people are at risk. The prime minister is stepping down, and there are calls for armed international intervention. Can it be saved? Stephen Sackur speaks to Claude Joseph, the country’s former acting prime minister.

  • Leonid Volkov: Is the anti-Putin movement out of options?

    13/03/2024 Duration: 22min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Leonid Volkov, long-time ally and adviser to Russia’s late opposition leader Alexey Navalny. President Vladimir Putin is almost certain to be resoundingly re-elected in upcoming elections. His most dangerous political opponent is dead. Is it game over for the anti-Putin movement?

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

    13/03/2024 Duration: 22min

    Stephen Sackur is in Oakland, California, to speak to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the 1960s Black Panther Party. She experienced violence, imprisonment and vilification in the controversial campaign for black power. Do the Panthers have lessons for the Black Lives Matter movement?

  • Riyad Mansour: Why are the diplomats failing?

    13/03/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN. Talks to end, or at least suspend, the war in Gaza haven’t worked. The humanitarian situation for two million Palestinians and the 100-plus Israeli hostages is desperate. Why are the diplomats failing?

  • Sathnam Sanghera: Britain's imperial legacies

    06/03/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer Sathnam Sanghera, whose own identity as the British son of Indian immigrants led him to look afresh at the legacy of the British Empire.

  • Salome Zourabichvili: Where does Georgia's destiny lie?

    01/03/2024 Duration: 23min

    Russia’s neighbour Georgia is closely watching what happens in Ukraine. It shares a 900km border with Russia, who invaded in 2008. Russian troops are stationed in two separatist regions. Georgia has just been granted EU candidate status and talks of joining NATO, yet its government is seen by some as sympathetic to Russia. Sarah Montague talks to the Georgian President, Salome Zourabichvili. Where does Georgia's destiny lie - with Russia or the West?

  • Ciarán Hinds: Is Northern Ireland a creative powerhouse?

    28/02/2024 Duration: 24min

    Stephen Sackur interviews Northern Irish actor Ciarán Hinds, whose career took him from the troubled streets of Belfast to an Oscar nomination. Right now, Northern Ireland is a creative powerhouse; why, and will it last?

  • Jens Stoltenberg: Is Russia really preparing for a war with Nato?

    26/02/2024 Duration: 22min

    Sarah Montague is at Nato’s headquarters in Brussels to speak to its outgoing Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Two years after Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, is Vladimir Putin now preparing for a war with Nato?

  • HARDtalk: Defying Putin

    23/02/2024 Duration: 22min

    In a special programme in the run up to Russia’s presidential election in March, HARDtalk looks back on interviews with those few Russians who have been ready to stand up to Vladimir Putin. From the late Boris Nemtsov to Alexei Navalny whose death was announced recently, what motivates those ready to risk everything to challenge Putin?

  • Nikolai Denkov: Is Bulgaria a weak link in Europe's security?

    21/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur speaks to Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov. His country is trying to wean itself off Russian energy, and sends weapons to Ukraine, but many Bulgarians are still pro-Russian. As Europe tries to beef up its own security, is Bulgaria a weak link?

  • Alexey Navalny: The interview

    19/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Russian authorities have announced the death of one of the country’s most significant opposition leaders Alexey Navalny in a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle. Stephen Sackur spoke to him in Moscow in 2017 about the risks involved in being a prominent critic of President Putin.(Photo: Alexey Navalny. Still from his 2017 interview with Stephen Sackur)

  • Bassem Youssef: Can laughter ever provoke political change?

    16/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur is in New York for a special edition of the programme with Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef. During the Arab Spring, his mockery of Egypt’s leaders won him millions of fans, but after the military took over he fled the US where he has reinvented his comedy career. Can laughter ever provoke political change?

  • Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya: Does Ukraine feel betrayed?

    13/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur is in New York City for an exclusive interview with Ukraine’s top diplomat at the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya. With partisan warfare in Washington DC blocking crucial military assistance to Kyiv, does Ukraine feel betrayed?(Photo: Still taken from the Hardtalk interview with Sergiy Kyslytsya)

  • Cornel West: Could enough votes taken from Joe Biden help Donald Trump get elected?

    12/02/2024 Duration: 23min

    Stephen Sackur is in New York City to speak to Cornel West, the high-profile philosopher, writer and activist who has launched his own bid for the White House. Running as independent, he looks unlikely to win but could this anti-war socialist take enough votes from Joe Biden to help Donald Trump get elected a second time?

  • 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?

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