HardTalk (styled as HARDtalk) is a BBC television and radio programme broadcast on the BBC News Channel, on BBC World News, and on the BBC World Service.
Broadcast times and days vary, depending on broadcasting platform and geographic location.[1][2][3] HardTalk is also available on BBC iPlayer.[4]
Format[]
HardTalk provides "in-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about the highs and lows in their lives."[5]
Presenters and interviewees[]
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Presenters[]
HardTalk is predominantly presented by interviewer Stephen Sackur. Other presenters include Zeinab Badawi and Sarah Montague.
Tim Sebastian was the original presenter when the programme launched in March 1997.[6][7]
Selected interviewees[]
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- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie[8]
- Bertie Ahern[9]
- Ayad Allawi[10]
- Isabel Allende[11]
- Anba Angaelos[12]
- Maya Angelou[13]
- Kofi Annan[14]
- Vladimir Ashkenazy[15]
- Richard Attenborough[16]
- Dimitris Avramopoulos[17]
- Roberto Azevêdo[18]
- Dean Baquet[19]
- Martin Baron[20]
- Adama Barrow[21]
- Vicky Beeching[22]
- Fatou Bensouda[23]
- Benazir Bhutto[24]
- Dustin Lance Black[25]
- Sue Black[26]
- Hans Blix[27]
- Dan Brown[28]
- Pascal Bruckner[29]
- Tania Bruguera[30]
- Hugo Chávez[31]
- Lee Child[32]
- Noam Chomsky[33]
- Jonathan Coe[34]
- Paul Collier[35]
- Michael Collins[36]
- Patricia Cornwell[37]
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer[38]
- Gilles de Kerchove[39]
- F. W. de Klerk[40]
- Michaela DePrince[41]
- Jennifer Doudna[42]
- Elizabeth Eckford[43]
- James Ellroy[44]
- Zineb El Rhazoui[45]
- Mona Eltahawy[46]
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[47]
- Mohammed Fairouz[48]
- Roger Federer[49]
- Beatrice Fihn[50]
- Jane Fonda[51]
- Vicente Fox[52]
- William Frankland[53]
- Michael Frayn[54]
- Atul Gawande[55]
- Pinchas Goldschmidt[56]
- Mikhail Gorbachev[57]
- Al Gore[58]
- Pete Goss[59]
- David Green[60]
- António Guterres[61]
- Roger Hallam[62]
- Ramush Haradinaj[63]
- Connie Hedegaard[64]
- Seymour Hersh[65]
- Carl Hiaasen[66]
- Howard Jacobson[67]
- Katrín Jakobsdóttir[68]
- Wilko Johnson[69]
- Angelina Jolie[70]
- Věra Jourová[71]
- Paul Kagame[72]
- Wanuri Kahiu[73]
- Steve Keen[74]
- Uhuru Kenyatta[75]
- Mahira Khan[76]
- Sherin Khankan[77]
- Jamal Khashoggi[78]
- Bernice King[79]
- Naomi Klein[80]
- Mark Knopfler[81]
- Christine Lagarde[82]
- Pascal Lamy[83]
- Annie Lennox[84]
- Baz Luhrmann[85]
- Thuli Madonsela[86]
- Pippa Malmgren[87]
- Nelson Mandela[88]
- Mira Marković[89]
- Stanley A. McChrystal[90]
- Ian McKellen[91]
- Monica McWilliams[92]
- Mahathir Mohamad[93]
- Alan Moore[94]
- Pierre Moscovici[95]
- Robert Mugabe[96]
- Aimee Mullins[97]
- Nadia Murad[98]
- David Nott[99]
- Olusegun Obasanjo[100]
- Teodoro Obiang[101]
- Gwyneth Paltrow[102]
- Orhan Pamuk[103]
- Jordan Peterson[104]
- Bertrand Piccard[105]
- Francois Pienaar[106]
- Thomas Piketty[107]
- Steven Pinker[108]
- Michael Rakowitz[109]
- Cyril Ramaphosa[110]
- Robert Redford[111]
- Martin Rees[112]
- Jason Rezaian[113]
- James Rhodes[114]
- Jeremy Rifkin[115]
- Dilma Rousseff[116]
- Alan Rusbridger[117]
- Mikheil Saakashvili[118]
- Edward Said[119]
- Bernie Sanders[120]
- Anthony Scaramucci[121]
- Barbet Schroeder[122]
- Thein Sein[123]
- Elif Shafak[124]
- Gene Sharp[125]
- Gene Simmons[126]
- Nina Simone[127]
- Lemn Sissay[128]
- Leïla Slimani[129]
- Jens Stoltenberg[130]
- Roger Stone[131]
- Luis Antonio Tagle[132]
- Charlize Theron[133]
- Hugh Thompson, Jr[134]
- Jürgen Todenhöfer[135]
- Colm Tóibín[136]
- Bruno Tshibala[137]
- Peter Turkson[138]
- Desmond Tutu[139]
- Guy Verhofstadt[140]
- Gore Vidal[141]
- Rob Wainwright[142]
- Cornel West[143]
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw[144]
- Tim Winton[145]
- Binali Yıldırım[146]
- Maysoon Zayid[147]
- Meles Zenawi[148]
- Luigi Zingales[149]
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Spin-offs[]
HardTalk Extra[]
HardTalk Extra—a series of "interviews with people from the arts and culture," predominantly presented by Gavin Esler.
Interviewees include: Brenda Blethyn, Robin Gibb, Debbie Harry, Marie Helvin, Grayson Perry, Ian Rankin, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Patrick Swayze.[150][151]
HardTalk Extra Time[]
HardTalk Extra Time—a spin-off of "in-depth interviews with the stars, coaches, and power brokers in the world of sport."
Among those interviewed by Rob Bonnet, include: Nicola Adams, Roger Bannister, Jonah Lomu, David Rudisha, and Murray Walker.[152][153]
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