Former North Korea Detainee - Kenneth Bae
How do you survive the North Korean labour camp system? Kenneth Bae is an American Christian missionary who was arrested inside North Korea and spent two years in a Pyongyang prison.(Photo: Kenneth Ba...
28 Aug 201723min
American Civil Rights Activist - Richard Cohen
Neo-Nazism, and race hatred are alive and kicking in the United States. The violence in Charlottesville was shocking not just because a life was taken, but also because of the polarising impact of Pre...
25 Aug 201724min
MEP for South-East England - Daniel Hannan
Politicians and civil servants usually abandon their offices in the dog days of August, but not this year in London, where Brexit is now an overwhelming political priority. Theresa May's Government ha...
22 Aug 201723min
Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili
In the age of Donald Trump maybe the world is getting used to international politics delivering the unexpected. Stephen Sackur speaks to Mikheil Saakashvili who served two terms as President of Georgi...
21 Aug 201724min
Former South African Finance Minister - Pravin Gordhan
For more than two decades the ANC has been South Africa's impregnable political structure, but now cracks are appearing. At least 30 ANC MPs defied the party whip and supported a no confidence motion ...
17 Aug 201723min
Acting Director General, Al Jazeera Media Network - Mostefa Souag
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Mostefa Souag, Acting Director General of Al Jazeera. The news network was launched in Qatar in 1996 it had a seismic impact on the media landscape in the Middle Ea...
15 Aug 201723min
Anti-Maduro Dissident - Isaias Medina
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Isaias Medina, former Venezuelan diplomat at the UN and now an anti-Maduro dissident. Venezuela's political and economic crisis is precariously poised - the Maduro ...
11 Aug 201723min
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland - Witold Waszczykowski
Is Poland, a country that was held up as a model of post-Soviet transition, turning away from liberal democracy? In July the EU announced that it would launch legal action against Poland over plans to...
11 Aug 201723min
