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
Andreas Mavroyiannis, Deputy Minister for European Affairs for Cyprus
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering unity in Europe, but the award was made during the current EU presidency of its only divided member - Cyprus. Since 1974 the island has been ...
5 Nov 201223min
Bob Shrum, Democratic Party Consultant and Campaign Strategist
Next Tuesday’s US Presidential Election promises to be the closest since the Bush/Gore race ended in a dispute over hanging chads a dozen years ago. And Barack Obama could yet join the list of underwh...
2 Nov 201223min
Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform
Mitt Romney and his Republican advisers claim momentum is on their side as the US presidential election enters the final stretch. Their unrelenting focus is on the ailing US economy and their claim th...
31 Okt 201223min
Conrad Black - Former CEO of Hollinger International
From global media baron to convicted criminal doing time in a Florida jail, the remarkable rise and fall of Conrad Black has made for years of lurid headlines - not least in the newspapers he used to ...
26 Okt 201223min
Richard Thaler - Behavioural economist
Stop smoking, eat less, exercise more, pay your taxes on time. So many things governments want us to do; so hard to get us to do them.Shaun Ley speaks to behavioural economist Richard Thaler who think...
24 Okt 201223min
