Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey
In a special edition of the programme, Zeinab Badawi is in Istanbul to speak to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is a year since coup plotters tried to remove him from office in a series of...
14 Juli 201723min
Writer and activist - Naomi Klein
Are radical policies needed to address the current ills of the US? Zeinab Badawi speaks to the progressive Canadian-American writer and activist Naomi Klein, who is calling for mass protests against P...
11 Juli 201723min
Chief of Army Staff, Nigeria - Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai
Is the Nigerian army effective in securing the country? As the stability and unity of West African nation is threatened by internal tensions, conflict and corruption, Stephen Sackur speaks to Nigeria’...
9 Juli 201723min
Prosecutor, International Criminal Court - Fatou Bensouda
HARDtalk’s Zeinab Badawi speaks to the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda. The recent release of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi by the Libyan group holding him has led the ICC in T...
4 Juli 201723min
US Senator for Connecticut (1989-2013) - Joe Lieberman
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US Senator, Joe Lieberman. A generation ago the first President Bush proclaimed a new world order, in which the United States would lead by example. Twen...
30 Juni 201723min
Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe Ya'alon served in the Israel Defence Force for 38 years including as Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005. He then entered politics and served as Minister of Defence for three years until his resign...
30 Juni 201723min
Screenwriter and LGBTQ Activist Dustin Lance Black
Stephen Sackur speaks to the American film-maker and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for the film Milk and has just completed a major series on the struggle for gay rights. It’s fift...
28 Juni 201723min
Philippines Senator - Antonio Trillanes
Stephen Sackur speaks to Philippines Senator, Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes. When it comes to populist politics delivered with robust action no-one does it quite like Rodrigo Duterte, elected President of...
23 Juni 201723min
