HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Episodes to download
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Vadym Prystaiko: Can Ukraine count on its allies?
Fri 9 Sep 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's ambassador to the UK
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Enrico Letta: Is Italy set to choose a far-right government?
Wed 7 Sep 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Italy鈥檚 centre-left Democratic Party
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Lindsey Graham: Trump and the midterms
Mon 5 Sep 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Donald Trump's most forceful defenders in the US Senate
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Tova Friedman: Learning from history
Fri 2 Sep 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a survivor of the Holocaust
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Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers
Wed 31 Aug 2022
How do you treat those responsible for the most heinous of crimes?
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Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur talks to the former chief rabbi of Moscow
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Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent
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Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews renowned artist Sir Peter Blake.
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Kri拧j膩nis Kari艈拧: Is Latvia still vulnerable?
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the prime minister of Latvia
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George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear
Wed 17 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews writer and environmental activist George Monbiot.
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Shon Faye: The transgender issue
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews author and journalist Shon Faye
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Amrullah Saleh: Is resistance in Afghanistan viable?
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the former First Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh.
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Albert Woodfox: Freedom after a life inside
Wed 10 Aug 2022
In 2019, Stephen Sackur spoke to the former member of the Black Panther movement
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Gregory Doran: Why does Shakespeare still captivate us?
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews the artistic director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company
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The Singh Twins: Mixing art and politics
Wed 3 Aug 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed contemporary British artists
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Julius Malema: Is South Africa on the brink of chaos?
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters
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Fatih Birol: Could short-term panic derail the clean energy transition?
Wed 27 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the International Energy Agency.
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Sharan Burrow: Do workers have faith in collective action?
Fri 22 Jul 2022
An interview with the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation
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Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to Omah Lay, Nigerian Afrobeats Musician
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Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chief justice of Ethiopia's Supreme Court
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Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda: Does Christianity in Iraq have a future?
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil
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Ibram X. Kendi: America's unhealed racial wounds
Mon 11 Jul 2022
An influential writer argues the only way to not be racist is to be actively anti-racist
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Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?
Fri 8 Jul 2022
Nury Turkel is leading the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs
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Steve Thompson: Rugby's traumatic legacy
Wed 6 Jul 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a former rugby player living with early-onset dementia
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Lord Patten: Were promises to Hong Kong broken?
Fri 1 Jul 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to the former governor of Hong Kong
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K. Shanmugam: Will Singapore have to choose between the US and China?
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Singapore鈥檚 minister of home affairs
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Henry Huiyao Wang: Is China exposing its vulnerabilities?
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a China thinktank founder and sometime government adviser
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Jo茫o Vale de Almeida: Have UK-EU relations become toxic?
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU鈥檚 Ambassador to the UK
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Semyon Bychkov: Artists speaking out against Putin
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
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Olha Stefanishyna: Will Kyiv get the support it needs?
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine鈥檚 deputy PM for European integration
