HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
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Notis Mitarachi: Has Greece's government lost the confidence of the people?
Wed 8 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Greece's asylum and migration minister
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F茅lix Maradiaga: Standing up to Nicaragua's president
Fri 3 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the recently deported former Nicaraguan opposition leader
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Tikhon Dzyadko: Is there an audience for independent news in Russia?
Wed 1 Mar 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Rain TV editor, Tikhon Dzyadko
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Ece Temelkuran: Is Erdogan's control of Turkey under threat?
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent exiled Turkish writer and critic of the president
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Olesya Khromeychuk: Conflict and identity
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the British-Ukrainian historian and author
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Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Canadian doctor and assisted dying advocate
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Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Somali-born model and activist, Waris Dirie.
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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Britain鈥檚 biggest rail union the RMT
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Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who led Human Rights Watch for three decades
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Kira Rudik: Can Ukraine win this war?
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Ukrainian MP who leads the opposition party Golos
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Pervez Musharraf: Power in Pakistan
Wed 8 Feb 2023
A 2014 interview with the former president of Pakistan, who has died aged 79
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Zsuzsanna Szel茅nyi: How strong is Viktor Orb谩n's grip on Hungary?
Mon 6 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary鈥檚 Prime Minister
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Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?
Wed 1 Feb 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain
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Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran
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Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela鈥檚 opposition been outmanoeuvred?
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela鈥檚 opposition.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine鈥檚 foreign minister
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Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave
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Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula鈥檚 foreign policy advisor
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
Wed 18 Jan 2023
An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist
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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
Fri 13 Jan 2023
A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist
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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
Wed 11 Jan 2023
A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine
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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child
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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan鈥檚 opposition PTI party
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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
Wed 4 Jan 2023
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist
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Hardtalk in 2022
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk鈥檚 most compelling interviews of the year
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Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party
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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party
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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights
Wed 14 Dec 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates
