Sir Ian McKellen - Actor
Whether you think of him as Richard III or Gandalf, you will know he has won hearts and accolades around the world - not just for five decades of work on stage and screen, but also for his passionate ...
5 Apr 201723min
Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault
Why is a former head of state-sanctioned executions now an opponent of the death penalty? A host of countries around the world still impose the ultimate punishment on the most serious criminals - deat...
31 Mar 201722min
South African Anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada
He spent 26 years in jail for trying to topple South Africa’s white minority government. Veteran anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada has died. He was 87 years old. For 18 years he was with Nelson ...
29 Mar 201723min
Ben Ferencz, Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
Looking back, what does the last surviving prosecutor at the Nazi Nuremberg trials think they achieved? 98-year-old Ben Ferencz helped liberate the death camps in Europe when he was serving in the US ...
27 Mar 201723min
Deputy Leader of the Turkey's Republican People's Party - Selin Sayek Böke
Does Turkey's main opposition party have a credible alternative vision for the country? Zeinab Badawi talks to Selin Sayek Böke, a deputy leader for the CHP. Her party was established by the founder o...
24 Mar 201723min
Joshua Wong, Secretary General of Demosisto political party, Hong Kong
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Joshua Wong, a leader of the so-called umbrella pro-democracy protests that swept Hong Kong in 2014. He's now the secretary general of the Demosisto political party...
22 Mar 201723min
Zimbabwe's Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi
Sarah Montague speaks to Zimbabwe’s Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi. His job is to persuade people to holiday in a country where doctors, nurses and teachers have all been on strike, half the rural pop...
20 Mar 201723min
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice-Chairman of Open Russia
Sarah Montague speaks to Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice-Chairman of the pro-democracy movement Open Russia. He was rushed to hospital in Moscow when his organs started failing and says he knew immediately ...
17 Mar 201723min
