Roxane Gay: An unflinching memoir
The Interview2 Jun 2023

Roxane Gay: An unflinching memoir

Stephen Sackur speaks to American writer, academic and cultural commentator Roxane Gay. Her unflinching, extraordinary memoir Hunger deals with her experience of rape and obesity. How scary is the level of self-exposure in much of her writing?

(Photo: Roxane Gay in the Hardtalk studio)

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President, Conference of European Rabbis - Pinchas Goldschmidt

President, Conference of European Rabbis - Pinchas Goldschmidt

There is plenty of disturbing data pointing to a significant rise in overt anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States. What are the reasons and how should the Jewish community respond? How much re...

11 Jan 201923min

General Secretary, Unite Union, UK - Len McCluskey

General Secretary, Unite Union, UK - Len McCluskey

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Len McCluskey, leader of Britain’s biggest trade union and biggest donor to the Labour party. Brexit is tearing at the fabric of British politics. Theresa May’s pro...

9 Jan 201923min

Dr William Frankland, Allergist and WW2 Prisoner of War

Dr William Frankland, Allergist and WW2 Prisoner of War

Dr William Frankland is a world renowned expert on allergies and one of the last remaining British survivors of the Japanese prisoner of war camps in World War Two. His is a death-defying, life-affirm...

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Jack Reacher author Lee Child

Jack Reacher author Lee Child

Stephen Sackur speaks to the author Lee Child. Storytelling is one of the most basic human impulses. But few are the storytellers who can draw in millions of readers all over the world, fewer still th...

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Gulnur Aybet, Senior Adviser to President of Turkey

Gulnur Aybet, Senior Adviser to President of Turkey

Stephen Sackur speaks to Gulnur Aybet, senior adviser to President Erdogan of Turkey. The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul put Turkey at the heart of a story...

17 Des 201823min

Finance Minister of Pakistan - Asad Umar

Finance Minister of Pakistan - Asad Umar

It took former cricketer Imran Khan two decades of political slog to win power in Pakistan. It’s taken his critics just months to decide he’s out of his depth. They point to the country’s crippled eco...

14 Des 201823min

Musician - Mark Knopfler

Musician - Mark Knopfler

What drives musical creativity? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to songwriter Mark Knopfler. In the pantheon of rock ’n’ roll greats, a special place is reserved for guitar virtuosos – think Eric Cla...

14 Des 201824min

Nicaraguan Dissident Felix Maradiaga

Nicaraguan Dissident Felix Maradiaga

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has been in power for the past 11 years, but this year he has faced popular protests and demands that he step down. His response has been repression and defiance. ...

10 Des 201824min

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