Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?

Zeinab Badawi interviews one of the rising stars of South Africa's ruling party

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Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?

Zeinab Badawi interviews the president of Georgia

• 23 mins

Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former analyst who leaked a trove of US military secrets

• 23 mins

Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who signed the Tigray peace deal on behalf of the TPLF

• 23 mins

Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy

How should society deal with public monuments to controversial figures from the past?

• 23 mins

Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life

Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer

• 23 mins

London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?

Stephen Sackur is in the US to speak to San Francisco’s mayor

• 23 mins

Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?

Stephen Sackur meets the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed US lies about Vietnam

• 23 mins

David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the billionaire investor David Friedberg.

• 23 mins

Allen Ault: Opposing the death penalty

A 2014 interview with Allen Ault, who became a campaigner against the death penalty

• 23 mins

Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights

Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates

• 23 mins

Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party

• 23 mins

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

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party

• 23 mins

Hardtalk in 2022

Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk’s most compelling interviews of the year

• 23 mins

02/01/2023 GMT

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

• 23 mins

Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist

• 23 mins

Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan’s opposition PTI party

• 23 mins

Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world

Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child

• 23 mins

Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin

A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine

• 23 mins

Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures

A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist

• 23 mins

Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past

Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist

• 23 mins

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?

An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization

• 23 mins

Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?

Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula’s foreign policy advisor

• 23 mins

Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin

Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave

• 23 mins

Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s foreign minister

• 23 mins

Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela’s opposition.

• 23 mins

Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran

• 23 mins

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain

• 23 mins

Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser

• 23 mins

Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary’s Prime Minister

• 23 mins