Economist - Steve Keen
Stephen Sackur talks to the influential contrarian economist, Steve Keen. It's a good time to be an economist who swims against the tide of conventional wisdom. After all the last decade has seen clas...
19 Aug 201623min
Civil rights activist - Rev. Al Sharpton
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur talks to Al Sharpton, the veteran, often controversial, civil rights campaigner. One of the bleaker themes of Barack Obama's presidency has been the crisis in relations betwe...
17 Aug 201623min
HARDtalk: Nicholas Burns
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur talks to veteran US diplomat and now foreign policy adviser to the Clinton campaign, Nicholas Burns. To put it mildly the Washington foreign policy making establishment doesn...
15 Aug 201623min
Filmmaker - Paul Refsdal
French newspapers will no longer publish pictures of the perpetrators of jihadist atrocities - in an effort to ensure they're neither glorified, nor humanised. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to a jo...
10 Aug 201623min
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan - Omar Zakhilwal
Stephen Sackur speaks to Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Omar Zakhilwal. When Ashraf Ghani became president of Afghanistan two years ago he talked of new diplomatic cooperation with Pakistan, ai...
8 Aug 201623min
Hardtalk - Babatunde Fashola
Stephen Sackur talks to Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria's Minister for Power, Works and Housing. Will his country ever realise its full potential?
4 Aug 201623min
Former CIA agent - Sabrina de Sousa
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Sabrina de Sousa, an ex-CIA spy who faces extradition from Portugal to Italy to serve a prison sentence for her alleged role in a CIA extraordinary rendition case when an Egypt...
1 Aug 201623min
Shahbaz Taseer - Former Hostage, 2011-2016
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Shahbaz Taseer, Pakistani businessman, recently released by the Taliban after nearly five years of captivity, during which he endured constant torture. He is the son of the for...
27 Jul 201623min
