The Interview Episodes Episode guide
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Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary’s Prime Minister
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Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?
Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser
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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain
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Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran
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Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela’s opposition.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s foreign minister
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Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin
Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave
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Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?
Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula’s foreign policy advisor
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?
An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist
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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures
A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist
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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin
A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine
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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world
Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child
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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?
Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan’s opposition PTI party
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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist
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02/01/2023 GMT
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
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Hardtalk in 2022
Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk’s most compelling interviews of the year
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Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party
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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?
Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party
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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights
Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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Allen Ault: Opposing the death penalty
A 2014 interview with Allen Ault, who became a campaigner against the death penalty
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David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the billionaire investor David Friedberg.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?
Stephen Sackur meets the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed US lies about Vietnam
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London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?
Stephen Sackur is in the US to speak to San Francisco’s mayor
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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer
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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy
How should society deal with public monuments to controversial figures from the past?
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Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who signed the Tigray peace deal on behalf of the TPLF
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Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the former analyst who leaked a trove of US military secrets
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Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?
Zeinab Badawi interviews the president of Georgia
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Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?
Zeinab Badawi interviews one of the rising stars of South Africa's ruling party
