09/05/2012 GMT
The west faces a lost decade of economic stagnation. Unemployment is high, inequality is rising and governments are broke. Should we be blaming capitalism or looking to the market for solutions?HARDta...
9 Maj 201223min
NHIAL DENG NHIAL – Foreign Minister, South Sudan
Africa's newest nation, South Sudan, is in trouble. Less than a year after independence from Khartoum, the South and its much larger northern neighbour are confronting each other over oil reserves, bo...
1 Maj 201223min
Sir JOHN SULSTON – Nobel Prize-winning scientist
Science is constantly changing and deepening our understanding of ourselves and our planet. So is it time to give scientists a more prominent role in the debate about humanity's strategic choices; eco...
29 Apr 201223min
OLEG DERIPASKA – Chief Executive, RUSAL
In post Soviet Russia, a small band of businessmen became unimaginably rich. These so-called oligarchs command assets worth billions of dollars, but their position isn’t without its perils in the era ...
24 Apr 201223min
ZOE WANAMAKER – Actor
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur is at the Globe Theatre in London - a magical recreation of the theatre where William Shakespeare honed his theatrical genius in the late sixteenth century. Over the next six...
23 Apr 201223min
PETER KEEN - Director of Performance, UK Sport
The official Olympic creed says it’s not the winning that counts but the taking part. Try telling that to the elite professional athletes and their coaches who have dedicated their lives to the quest ...
20 Apr 201223min
FW de Klerk
In a programme first broadcast in 2012, Stephen Sackur speaks to FW de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era leader and a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.Photo: Former Sou...
18 Apr 201223min
Paul Conroy - Photographer
From Syria, to Sri Lanka, to Russia, there are journalists ready to put themselves in harm's way to shine a light on some of the darkest corners of conflict, crime and corruption. What makes them do i...
16 Apr 201223min
