Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine
In September 1957 nine African American students, including Elizabeth Eckford, entered the all white Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, thereby breaking for the first time the racial segrega...
5 Mars 201823min
Prime Minister of Kosovo - Ramush Haradinaj
It is ten years since Kosovo became Europe’s newest nation. It has not been an easy decade. Relations with neighbouring Serbia remain hostile and international recognition has been patchy with Kosovo ...
2 Mars 201823min
Psychologist Steven Pinker
The HARDtalk programme, like so many others in the churn of 24/7 news tends to focus on people and places facing problems and challenges. More often than not we hold the powerful to account for things...
28 Feb 201824min
Petroleum Minister, South Sudan - Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth
Who or what can deliver South Sudan's people from despair? Its first six and half years as an independent country have been an unmitigated disaster. A brutal civil conflict, a broken economy, famine ...
26 Feb 201823min
Former humanitarian aid worker - Amira Malik Miller
Gross misconduct and sexual exploitation in the humanitarian aid industry - what's gone wrong and why? Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of allegations of abusive behaviour, shoddy recruitment and man...
23 Feb 201823min
Peter Boehringer - MP, Alternative Party for Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition deal with the Social Democrats looks fragile, with Germany's biggest opposition party now the right wing Alternative for Germany Party. Peter Boehringer is ...
21 Feb 201823min
Former mayor of El Hatillo, Venezuela - David Smolansky
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to David Smolansky, anti-regime activist who was the mayor of a district in Caracas until he fled the country to escape a jail term for aiding last year’s street prote...
19 Feb 201823min
Breaking the Silence - Avner Gvaryahu
The Israeli Defence Force sees itself as an institution that binds the nation together. Most young Israelis serve in its ranks after leaving school. It claims to combine defence of the state with a se...
16 Feb 201823min
