Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEnrico Letta: Is Italy set to choose a far-right government?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Enrico Letta, leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party. With a momentous General Election looming, can Italians be per…
4 years ago
Lindsey Graham: Trump and the midterms
In a special edition of HARDtalk from the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy, Stephen Sackur speaks to long-time Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham. He is p…
4 years ago
Tova Friedman: Learning from history
Stephen Sackur speaks to Tova Friedman, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. Never has it felt more important to remember the lessons of one o…
4 years ago
Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Dr Gwen Adshead, a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has spent more than three decades trying to treat some of th…
4 years ago
Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was chief rabbi of Moscow until he fled Russia after the Ukraine invasion and left his post. His fa…
4 years ago
Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Olga Rudenko, chief editor of the Kyiv Independent - set up by Ukrainian journalists to hold their government to account. Is…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the artist Sir Peter Blake, whose work came to define the freshness and optimism of the 1960s. Now aged 90, he is still pain…
4 years, 1 month ago
Krišjānis Kariņš: Is Latvia still vulnerable?
Stephen Sackur is in Riga to speak to the Prime Minister of Latvia, Krišjānis Kariņš. Latvia is now an established member of the EU and NATO, but Put…
4 years, 1 month ago
George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear
Humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. How do we feed a global population heading towards ten billion? Can it be done without de…
4 years, 1 month ago
Shon Faye: The transgender issue
According to research in the US and the UK, roughly one in 100 may be transgender. But the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a…
4 years, 1 month ago