Philosopher and Writer - Pascal Bruckner
Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer and public intellectual Pascal Bruckner and asks, is something rotten in the Republic of France? As the country prepares to elect a new president, polls suggest rec...
18 Apr 201722min
Executive Secretary of UN ESCWA 2010-2017 - Rima Khalaf
Why did a UN agency publish a report that categorised Israel as an apartheid state? Rima Khalaf was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia until Marc...
17 Apr 201723min
Psychologist Jan Kizilhan
HARDtalk’s Zeinab Badawi speaks to psychologist, Jan Kizilhan, a Yazidi Kurd living in Germany who has helped bring over a thousand Yazidi females from camps in Iraq to Germany to start a new life. Th...
14 Apr 201723min
Economist Sir Paul Collier
Sarah Montague speaks to the economist, Professor Sir Paul Collier. The refugee crisis is one of the world's most intractable problems: 60 million people have fled their homes, with a third of them al...
12 Apr 201723min
Italy's Europe Minister - Sandro Gozi
How does the EU need to change if it is to win over the next generation of Italians? Hardtalk’s Sarah Montague speaks to Italy’s Under-Secretary for European Affairs, Sandro Gozi. The EU seems in grea...
5 Apr 201722min
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
