Frans Baleni - General Secretary, South African National Union of Mineworkers
It has become known as the 'Marikana massacre', when 34 people were killed as police in South Africa opened fire on striking miners. For many it had echoes of Sharpeville in 1960, one of the defining ...
26 Nov 201223min
Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International
Greenpeace has campaigned against environmental degradation, for more than 40 years. This month it’s mobilising its activists to make a stand on saving the planet at the UN climate change conference ...
23 Nov 201223min
Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister of Syria
HARDtalk travels to the Jordanian capital Amman, just 100km north of the Syrian border. Three months ago Riad Hijab crossed that border and became the most senior Syrian government official to defect ...
21 Nov 201223min
Vandana Shiva, environmentalist
Hardtalk speaks to the original tree hugger. The phrase was coined back in the 1970s when she - along with a group of women in India - hugged trees to stop them from being chopped down. In the decades...
19 Nov 201223min
James Cracknell - former Olympic rower
James Cracknell is a former Olympic rowing champion who has performed astonishing feats of endurance from the Sahara to Antarctica. But his toughest challenge has come by accident, not design. Two yea...
16 Nov 201223min
Radoslaw Sikorski - Foreign Minister of Poland
Poland’s economy is growing, as is its diplomatic clout. The Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski has backed Germany's vision of much deeper EU integration. But do Poles really want to cede their...
13 Nov 201223min
Leonid Kozhara - Foreign Policy Advisor to the Ukrainian President
Ukraine's just held parliamentary elections. A cause for celebration, and the flowering of democracy in a former Soviet republic? Not if you read the reports of international election monitors or hear...
9 Nov 201223min
Hisham Qandil - Prime Minister, Egypt
Hardtalk is in Cairo to assess the state of Egypt's post-revolutionary politics. Right now, the report card is decidedly mixed. Egypt has a democratically-elected president but arguments over the fram...
7 Nov 201223min
