Finance Minister of India - Palaniappan Chidambaram
India has experienced unprecedented growth. Why does poverty persist?Picture: Palaniappan Chidambaram, Credit: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
27 Jan 201423min
Finance Minister of Cyprus - Harris Georgiades
When Harris Georgiades became Finance Minister of Cyprus a year ago some said he had been handed poisoned chalice. He has had to preside over tough austerity measures that are driving poverty levels i...
24 Jan 201423min
Former Minister, Freedom and Justice Party, Egypt - Yehia Hamed
It is three years since the uprisings collectively known as the 'Arab Spring' claimed their biggest prize – the ousting of Hosni Mubarak who had ruled Egypt for thirty years. The previously banned Mus...
22 Jan 201423min
British Energy and Climate Change Secretary - Ed Davey
The British government is 'going all out for shale'. Those are the words of the Prime Minister about his plan to allow companies to try to extract shale gas from deep underground. It's a contrast to m...
20 Jan 201423min
US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011 - Robert Gates
In a special edition of Hardtalk recorded in New York City, Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. In his newly published memoirs he gives the inside story on arguments...
17 Jan 201423min
President of the European Court of Human Rights - Dean Spielmann
Eight hundred million Europeans’ fundamental rights and liberties are supposed to be safeguarded by the European Court of Human Rights. It is an institution steeped in European idealism and ambition, ...
15 Jan 201423min
UN Rapporteur, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights - Ben Emmerson QC
When a US drone kills a jihadi militant in Pakistan has a law been broken? What if the missile kills women and children too? Who can be held to account? Hardtalk speaks to Ben Emmerson, the British la...
13 Jan 201423min
Director of Public Prosecutions, 2008–2013 - Keir Starmer QC
Is English justice all it is cracked up to be? Hardtalk speaks to Keir Starmer, the top barrister who has just stepped down after five years as the Director of Public Prosecutions - in effect the chie...
10 Jan 201423min
