Sir Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart has an acting career spanning more than 50 years. He was an accomplished Shakepearean actor when he took on the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation wh...
25 Jan 201223min
Wadah Khanfar - Former Director General, Al Jazeera
The satellite TV station Al Jazeera, is credited with giving ordinary Arabs a platform from which to challenge their governments. And day by day it's been covering the dramatic events of the Arab Spri...
23 Jan 201223min
Steve McQueen
The British artist and film-maker Steve McQueen - whose new film Shame is about sex addiction - says the condition is very real and is destroying people's lives.He tells HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi that ...
20 Jan 201223min
Bassma Kodmani
Ten months after the wave of Arab unrest reached Syria, President Assad is still in power.Bloody protests continue and there are fears that the country could be sliding into civil war.But there is lit...
18 Jan 201223min
Zoltan Kovacs - Hungarian Minister of State for Government Communication
Hungary's centre-right government has galvanized critics at home and abroad with its new controversial constitution. There have been mass protests in the country, opposition politicians have chained t...
16 Jan 201223min
Cheng Siwei - Former Vice Chairman, Standing Committee, NPC, China
This year - 2012 - is the Chinese Year of the Dragon and Chinese workers certainly seem to have fire in their belly.There's growing discontent amongst the workforce whose labour fuelled the country's ...
13 Jan 201223min
Olli Rehn - European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs
Sarah Montague is in Brussels to talk to the man with the unenviable job of finding a way out of Europe's financial crisis. He is Olli Rehn, Europe's Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs. It...
11 Jan 201223min
Dr Devi Shetty - Indian heart surgeon
Stephen Sackur speaks to a brilliant heart surgeon - veteran of more than 30,000 operations - but his growing international reputation rests less on his medical skill, more on his business brain. He w...
9 Jan 201223min
