Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPéter Szijjártó: Is Hungary undermining European values?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. On a range of issues from press freedom to LGBT rights, Hungary routinely ignore…
5 years, 1 month ago
Hamdullah Mohib: Can the Afghan government hold out against the Taliban?
Since the United States pulled its troops out of Afghanistan at the beginning of July, the Taliban have continued to retake vast swathes of the count…
5 years, 1 month ago
Fikile Mbalula: Is South Africa's government being confronted with its own failure?
South Africa is facing its deepest political crisis of the post-apartheid era. Days of violence and looting saw more than 200 people killed and thous…
5 years, 1 month ago
Laurent Lamothe: Can anything be done to end Haiti's suffering?
Stephen Sackur speaks to former Haitian Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe. Pity the eleven million people of Haiti; it is hard to think of a nation mor…
5 years, 1 month ago
Michael Holding: Can sport win its fight against racism?
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Michael Holding, the former West Indies cricket great who is now a prominent voice confronting racism. In England…
5 years, 2 months ago
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: Can courage overcome injustice?
Measured by the number of murders Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world to be a journalist. Eight were killed last year; and countless mo…
5 years, 2 months ago
Jess Phillips: What happened to progressive politics?
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the leading figures in the British Labour party, Jess Phillips MP. She’s a tireless campaigner against domestic viole…
5 years, 2 months ago
Writer Lionel Shriver
In our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist’s eye to chart the deeper, current events swirling ben…
5 years, 2 months ago
Christian Happi: Can Africa become a world leader in vaccine development?
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Professor Christian Happi whose ground-breaking research is helping tackle diseases that kill thousands every year. He gave …
5 years, 2 months ago
Victor Gao: 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party
As the Chinese Communist Party marks its 100th anniversary, Stephen Sackur speaks to veteran party loyalist Victor Gao, vice president of the Centre …
5 years, 2 months ago