Writer - Thomas Keneally
Is Australia still a country wrestling with its identity? HARDtalk’s Zeinab Badawi speaks to Australian writer Thomas Keneally. He's the author of more than 30 novels including Schindler’s Ark, which ...
17 Jun 201923min
Cardiac surgeon - Samer Nashef
There is something special about the human heart. We live with, and by, its constant beat. We invest it with our deepest feelings. So naturally we reserve something like reverence for the surgeons who...
10 Jun 201923min
Bas Eickhout, Dutch MEP, GreenLeft Party
Political power inside the European Union is no longer going to be easily stitched up between the two big blocks of centre left and centre right. After last month’s European parliamentary election, E...
7 Jun 201923min
US Democratic Party funder - Tom Steyer
As Donald Trump and family revel in the pomp and circumstance of a state visit to London, his staunchest political opponents continue to plot a pathway to impeachment. Stephen Sackur interviews Tom St...
5 Jun 201923min
Iyad El-Baghdadi, human rights activist
Hardtalk speaks to human rights activist Iyad El-Baghdadi. Six months after the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul three of Khashoggi’s friends and associ...
3 Jun 201923min
Historian, geographer, anthropolgist and author Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond’s hugely successful books draw on biology, geography, anthropology and more. So what’s his conclusion about the long term viability of homo sapiens?
31 Mai 201923min
Eric Wainaina, musician
In Kenya, hope and despair live side by side. There is economic growth, technological transformation and a youthful population hungry for opportunity. There is also grinding poverty, inequality and en...
29 Mai 201923min
Libyan author Hisham Matar
Stephen Sackur talks to renowned Libyan writer Hisham Matar. His writing has explored the impact of having a father ‘disappeared’ by the Gaddafi regime. How hard is it to move on?Image: Hisham Matar i...
27 Mai 201923min
