HARDtalk
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1s0
- Description
- In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-15 21:19
- last episode published
- 2025-01-15 08:30
- publication frequency
- 2.72 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1747
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- Categories
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-15 | Stephen Sackur speaks to Vladimir Kara-Murza, the anti-Putin activist who was twice poisoned, then imprisoned in Russia. He was freed in a prisoner swap last summer, and is now lobbying the West to intensify the pressure on the Kremlin. But is there an... |
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| 2025-01-13 | Sarah Montague speaks to award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia. His latest film 2073 combines science fiction with documentary to paint a bleak picture of our possible future: a world destroyed by climate change, authoritarian dictators and tech oligarc... |
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| 2025-01-10 | Sarah Montague speaks to Alice Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture. It’s been 40 years since the introduction of the UN Convention Against Torture, but she says it’s still happening at unacceptable levels. Is it possible to eradicate somethin... |
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| 2025-01-08 | Stephen Sackur speaks to the British novelist Alan Hollinghurst, author of Our Evenings and the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty. Over four decades, how has his writing and his view of Britain changed? |
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| 2024-12-23 | HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur looks back on some of the most powerful moments from 2024 in his end of year review. |
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| 2024-12-20 | Stephen Sackur speaks to former Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba. Russian forces are gaining ground along the frontline in eastern Ukraine, and US president-elect Donald Trump wants the war to end. What are Ukraine’s options now? |
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| 2024-12-18 | Stephen Sackur speaks to the former editor of The Washington Post Marty Baron. Donald Trump accused him of peddling lies and fake news. He called it independent evidence-based journalism. Does the re-election of Trump suggest the mainstream media is in... |
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| 2024-12-13 | Stephen Sackur is in Oslo for an exclusive interview with 92-year-old Terumi Tanaka who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Japanese survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo. Eight decades on, is nuclear w... |
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| 2024-12-06 | Stephen Sackur speaks to Republican congressman and Trump loyalist Mark Alford. The president-elect has already made clear his intent to blow up the Washington status quo, from swingeing tariffs to the mass deportation of migrants. Is America ready for... |
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| 2024-12-05 |
Arab Barghouthi: Will his father shape Palestinians' future? Stephen Sackur speaks to Arab Barghouthi. His father, Marwan, is serving life for murder in an Israeli jail, but is widely seen by Palestinians as a potential leader who could unify his people. Does his son believe he will ever be free? |
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