On the Road: Alaska – Part 2
Alaska, a land of pristine wilderness, sparse population and unimaginable resource riches. It is also the corner of our planet which is experiencing the most dramatic effects of climate change. The ca...
2 Aug 201323min
On the Road: Alaska - Part 1
Hardtalk is on the road in Alaska. In the first of two programmes, Stephen Sackur visits the Bristol Bay region of south-west Alaska where the fishing industry, the mining industry and the federal gov...
31 Juli 201323min
Opera Singer - Thomas Hampson
Opera is one of the least watched art forms in the world, and possibly the most expensive. Hardtalk speaks to opera superstar Thomas Hampson. He says the way to get people to love opera is to get them...
29 Juli 201328min
Governor of Rivers State, Nigeria - Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
Rivers State is at the heart of Nigeria’s oil industry, which produces 20% of the country's wealth. Yet more than one billion dollars a month is being lost to thieves who syphon it off from remote pip...
26 Juli 201323min
Iraq Foreign Minister - Hoshyar Zebari
Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said he wanted to rehabilitate Iraq’s image after the fall of Saddam Hussein. But now sectarian violence in Iraq is arguably worse than ever and is overlapping...
24 Juli 201323min
General Secretary of the GMB Union - Paul Kenny
Britain's Labour Party was created from the trade unions and it still gets most of its money from them. But Labour’s leader Ed Miliband - a man who owes his job to the union vote - now wants to loosen...
22 Juli 201323min
Prime Minister-Designate, Albania - Edi Rama
Albania is the single most corrupt country in Europe according to Transparency International. Hardtalk speaks to Edi Rama, who will become Albania's prime minister in September. A modern artist, he wo...
19 Juli 201323min
UK Conservative MP - David Davis
David Davis has been a candidate for the leadership of the British Conservative party but he has also made a name for himself as a civil liberties campaigner - arguing against what is sometimes called...
17 Juli 201323min
