HARDtalk Podcast
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
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Lord Heseltine 鈥� Former British Deputy Prime Minister
Fri 11 Jan 2013
Can Lord Heseltine's growth stratey juice things up for Britain's coalition government?
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Fatih Birol 鈥� Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
Wed 9 Jan 2013
Is the resilience of fossil fuel supply a cause for celebration, or despair?
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Mona Eltahawy 鈥� Writer and Activist
Mon 7 Jan 2013
Is genuine liberation for women possible in the Arab world?
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Ian Thorpe - Australian Swimmer
Fri 4 Jan 2013
Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression.
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Alan Moore - Graphic Novelist
Wed 2 Jan 2013
Alan Moore - graphic novelist and insurgent explains why is he now becoming disillusioned.
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Philip Glass - Composer
Mon 31 Dec 2012
Philip Glass has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
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Brooke Magnanti - Belle du Jour
Fri 28 Dec 2012
Belle de Jour aka Dr Brooke Magnanti is calling for prostitution to be decriminalised.
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Lewis Moody - Former England Rugby Captain
Boxing Day 2012
Ex-England rugby captain Lewis Moody talks about his battle with bowel disease
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Sir Geoffrey Nice QC - Barrister
Christmas Eve 2012
Stephen Sackur talks to Sir Geoffrey Nice who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevi膰
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Naguib Sawiris 鈥� Businessman and Founder, Free Egyptians Party
Fri 21 Dec 2012
Coptic Christian, billionaire, businessman and politician on Egypt's polarisation
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Sima Samar 鈥� Chairperson, Afghan Human Rights Commission
Mon 17 Dec 2012
Does Sima Samar have the right strategy to win greater freedoms for Afghan women?
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Leila Shahid 鈥� Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the EU
Fri 14 Dec 2012
Is the game up for Palestine's old guard moderates?
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Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government
Wed 12 Dec 2012
Falkland Islanders if they want to remain a British overseas territory. Should they agree?
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Jos茅 Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission
Mon 10 Dec 2012
Is Europe's economic crisis a threat to the continent's peace?
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Carlos Ghosn - CEO of Renault-Nissan
Fri 7 Dec 2012
Can Carlos Ghosn turn around the fortunes of Renault as he has done for Nissan?
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Mike Newell - film director
Wed 5 Dec 2012
Why did Mike Newell choose to make a film of the classic Dickens novel Great Expectations?
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Peter Voser - CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
Mon 3 Dec 2012
With economies so thirsty for energy - but at what cost?
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Jeh Johnson- General Counsel, US Department of Defense
Fri 30 Nov 2012
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the US Defense Department.
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Michael Woodford - Former CEO, Olympus
Wed 28 Nov 2012
Zeinab Badawi speaks to British businessman Michael Woodford, former CEO of Olympus.
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Frans Baleni - General Secretary, South African National Union of Mineworkers
Mon 26 Nov 2012
Shaun Ley asks about the consequences of the 'Marikana massacre' in South Africa.
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Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International
Fri 23 Nov 2012
Doesn鈥檛 Greenpeace need a new bold vision to make an impact 鈥� and if so 鈥� what is it?
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Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister of Syria
Wed 21 Nov 2012
Why did Riad Hijab defect from the regime of President Bashar al Assad?
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Vandana Shiva, environmentalist
Mon 19 Nov 2012
Could we really end poverty by returning to old fashioned ways of farming?
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James Cracknell - former Olympic rower
Fri 16 Nov 2012
What resources has Olympic rower James Cracknell needed to endure serious brain damage?
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Radoslaw Sikorski - Foreign Minister of Poland
Wed 14 Nov 2012
Do Poles really want to cede their hard won sovereignty to Brussels and Berlin?
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Leonid Kozhara - Foreign Policy Advisor to the Ukrainian President
Fri 9 Nov 2012
Tim Franks asks whether Ukraine has turned its back on the on the offer of EU membership.
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Hisham Qandil - Prime Minister, Egypt
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Stephen Sackur talks to Egypt's prime minister Hisham Qandil.
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Andreas Mavroyiannis, Deputy Minister for European Affairs for Cyprus
Mon 5 Nov 2012
Will the award of the Nobel Peace Prize boost confidence in the EU?
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Bob Shrum, Democratic Party Consultant and Campaign Strategist
Fri 2 Nov 2012
Why is President Obama struggling to rekindle the enthusiasm he generated four years ago?
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Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform
Wed 31 Oct 2012
How credible is the Mitt Romney plan for America?
