HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Episodes to download
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Nicu Popescu: How can Moldova protect itself?
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Moldova's foreign minister and deputy prime minister
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Josef Aschbacher: Is Europe losing the space race?
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the European Space Agency
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Vassily Nebenzia: Is Putin's plan failing?
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's ambassador to the UN
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Fawzia Koofi: Do Afghans still have hope?
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled female politician
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Dr Njoki Ngumi 鈥� Artist and film-maker
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Why does Dr Njoki Ngumi believe art has the power to transform societies and lives?
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Serhii Plokhy: How Putin weaponises history
Wed 1 Jun 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an internationally renowned Harvard historian
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Danica Roem: America's culture wars
Mon 30 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to America鈥檚 first transgender state lawmaker
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Luis Lacalle Pou: Why is Uruguay moving to the right?
Fri 27 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the president of Uruguay
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Jens Stoltenberg: Is Nato being undermined by internal divisions?
Wed 25 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the secretary general of Nato
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Iv谩n Duque: Has Colombia's president failed?
Mon 23 May 2022
Does the Duque Presidency signal the conclusive failure of Colombia鈥檚 ruling elite?
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Franklin Graham: An era of moral decline?
Fri 20 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of America's biggest Christian preachers
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Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be extradited to the US?
Wed 18 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the wife of the Wikileaks founder
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Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
Mon 16 May 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the CEO of Save the Children International
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Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
Fri 13 May 2022
Victoria Spartz, Republican Congresswoman is an ardent advocate of US support for Kyiv
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Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
Wed 11 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee
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Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
Mon 9 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Jim Green, former chief scientist at Nasa
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Zolt谩n Kov谩cs: Whose side is Hungary really on?
Fri 6 May 2022
Zolt谩n Kov谩cs, Hungary鈥檚 Secretary of State for International Communication on Russia
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Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
Wed 4 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the financier and anti-Putin campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act
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Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Mon 2 May 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the General Secretary of the UK鈥檚 Trades Union Congress
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Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline
Wed 27 Apr 2022
A Ukrainian musician who has exchanged stadium gigs for a military uniform
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled Russian businessman
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail
Wed 20 Apr 2022
The story of an Australian academic who was released from an Iranian jail in 2020
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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur talks to one of the UK's most popular comedians
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Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to one of Kenya鈥檚 most ground-breaking cultural figures
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Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled Russian economist
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Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin鈥檚 strategy be a template for China to follow?
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Taipei鈥檚 representative to the EU
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Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'
Fri 8 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to sanctioned F1 Driver Nikita Mazepin.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?
Wed 6 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's Foreign Minister as evidence of atrocities emerges
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Claude Joseph: Can Haiti be saved?
Mon 4 Apr 2022
What will it take to resolve the Caribbean nation's crises?
