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Neil Ferguson, Epidemiologist, Imperial College, London
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Alan Rusbridger - Former editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media
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Admiral James Stavridis - Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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Professor Barry Schoub - Chair of Advisory Committee on Covid-19 Vaccines, South Africa
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Tamara Rojo – Artistic Director, English National Ballet
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Alan Dershowitz - US lawyer
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Professor Kenneth Chan - Founding member of Civic Party, Hong Kong
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Lina Khan - US Lawyer
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Yuli Edelstein – Minister of Health, Israel
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Thomas Byrne – Minister for European Affairs, Ireland
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Leonid Volkov - Chief of Staff to Alexei Navalny
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Madawi Al-Rasheed - Saudi Academic and Co-Founder of the National Assembly Party
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Dr Soumya Swaminathan - Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya - Belarus opposition leader
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Evan Medeiros - Director for China and Taiwan Affairs, US National Security Council 2009 - 2015
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Laurie Santos - Cognitive Scientist, Professor of Psychology at Yale University
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Kirill Dmitriev - CEO of Russia Direct Investment Fund
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Clement Beaune - Minister for Europe, France
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Yogendra Yadav - SKM farmers’ organisation, India
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2021x20
Douglas Stuart - Author
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Timothy Snyder - Professor of History, Yale University
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Elizabeth Neumann - US Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, 2018-2020
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2021x23
Harvey Goldsmith - Music Producer and Promoter
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2021x24
Dr Seth Berkley - CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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2021x25
Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist
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Valdis Dombrovskis - Executive Vice-President, European Commission
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2021x27
Khin Zaw Win – Political Analyst, Myanmar
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Evan McMullin - Executive Director, Stand Up Republic
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Baroness Minouche Shafik - Director of the London School of Economics
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Salome Zourabichvili – President of Georgia
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Dr Sasa - Special Envoy to UN representing Parliament of Myanmar
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Adar Poonawalla – CEO, Serum Institute of India
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Vjosa Osmani - Acting President of Kosovo
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Stephen King - Writer
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Barbara Amiel - Writer
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Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee - Hong Kong Legislative Councillor
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Jean-Claude Juncker - President of the European Commission, 2014-2019
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Marina Abramović - Performance artist
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Erika Lust – Erotic film director
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Sir Vartan Melkonian – Conductor and Composer
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Ken Rogoff - Economist
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Amrullah Saleh – First Vice President, Afghanistan
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Tsitsi Dangarembga – Writer and activist
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Serj Tankian – Singer and Activist
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Silvia Foti – Writer and Holocaust Investigator
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Professor Michael Mann - Climatologist
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Sir Peter Westmacott - Former UK ambassador to the US
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Vladimir Ashurkov - Aide to Alexei Navalny
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Dmytro Kuleba – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
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Gilbert & George - Artists
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Mohammed Alyahya - Editor-in-Chief, Al Arabiya English
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Fawzia Koofi, Leader of Movement of Change for Afghanistan
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Haris Theoharis - Minister of Tourism, Greece
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Lt-General (Rtd) Ben Hodges – Former Commander, United States Army Europe
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Tzipi Hotovely – Israeli Ambassador to the UK
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Doug Gurr - Director, Natural History Museum, UK
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Kaja Kallas - Prime Minister of Estonia
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Husam Zomlot - Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK
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Vladimir Chizhov - Russia's Ambassador to the EU
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Tito Mboweni, South African Finance Minister
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Fawad Chaudhry - Pakistan's Information Minister
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Tom Kerridge – Chef and Restaurateur
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Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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Barry Hearn - Sporting Events Promoter
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Michael Rosen – Author
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McKrae Game - Founder, Hope for Wholeness
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Ben Rhodes - US Deputy National Security Advisor (2009-2017)
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Johan Lundgren – easyJet CEO
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Jens Stoltenberg, Nato Secretary General
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Michael Stipe, Artist and Musician (REM)
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Rawdah Mohamed – Fashion Editor, Vogue Scandinavia
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Zainab Ahmed, Nigeria’s Finance Minister
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Victor Gao - Vice President of the Centre for China and Globalisation
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Professor Christian Happi, Director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Nigeria
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Lionel Shriver, Writer
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N. Ram - Director, The Hindu Publishing Group
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James Lovelock, Scientist and Engineer
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Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley
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Lydia Cacho, Mexican Journalist and Human Rights Activist
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Michael Holding – West Indies Cricketer, 1975-87
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Laurent Lamothe - Prime Minister of Haiti, 2012 – 2014
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Fikile Mbalula, South African Transport Minister
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Péter Szijjártó - Foreign Minister of Hungary
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Hamdullah Mohib - National Security Adviser of Afghanistan
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Lazarus Chakwera - President of Malawi
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Sir Hilary Beckles - Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission
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RoseAnne Archibald, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Canada
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Professor Sir Andrew Pollard – director, Oxford Vaccine Group
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Hamid Mir - Journalist
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Daryl Davis - Musician and Author
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Aly Raisman – Former US Olympic gymnast
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Getachew Reda - Spokesperson for the Tigray People's Liberation Front
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Tobias Ellwood - Chair of Commons Defence Select Committee, UK
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Stephen Sackur speaks to British Conservative MP and former soldier Tobias Ellwood. Two decades after they were expelled from Kabul the hard-line Islamists are back. US and British .. show full overview
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Kamila Sidiqi - Afghan Deputy Commerce Minister, 2017-2019
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Kamila Sidiqi, a leading Afghan women's rights campaigner, entrepreneur and government adviser under President Ghani. She escaped from Kabul as the Taliban took over. Is her cause now lost and who is to blame?
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Gedion Timothewos - Ethiopia Attorney General
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Ethiopia's attorney general Gedion Timothewos. The conflict between government forces and Tigrayan rebels has cost thousands of lives and revived the spectre of famine - is there a way to avert catastrophe?
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Paula Kahumbu - CEO for WildlifeDirect, Kenya
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Paula Kahumbu, CEO for WildlifeDirect, Kenya. Her campaign to protect elephants and other endangered species asks Kenyans to prioritise protection of the country's wild spaces - is it working?
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Andrei Kelin - Russia's Ambassador to the UK
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The chaotic evacuation operation still underway at Kabul airport has put a harsh spotlight on two decades of US and Nato military commitment in Afghanistan. It looks and feels like a .. show full overview
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Maggi Hambling - Artist
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Stephen Sackur speaks to artist and sculptor Maggi Hambling. Her work has won international acclaim and sometimes stirred controversy, how has her creative vision evolved over the last six decades?
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Omar Zakhilwal - Former Afghan Finance Minister
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Omar Zakhilwal, former finance minister of Afghanistan who has been involved in talks with the Taliban. Will pragmatism or zealotry prevail as the Taliban grapple with the realities of ruling a broken country?
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Lindsey Graham - Senator for South Carolina (Republican)
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Lindsey Graham, the veteran US senator for South Carolina and one of the Republican Party's most outspoken voices on foreign policy. President Biden's decision .. show full overview
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Nadia Calviño - Deputy Prime Minister, Spain
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The Covid-19 pandemic and emerging superpower rivalries have presented the EU with troubling questions. Stephen Sackur speaks to Spain's deputy prime minister and economy minister Nadia .. show full overview
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison - Explorer and President of Survival International
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Stephen Sackur speaks to one of the world's great modern-day explorers, Robin Hanbury-Tenison. He committed himself to the protection of indigenous people and their lands. Have his efforts made a difference?
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Carlos Fernando Chamorro - Nicaraguan journalist
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Nicaraguan journalist and former-revolutionary Carlos Fernando Chamorro. He is currently in exile as President Daniel Ortega intensifies his crackdown on dissent. Why has Nicaragua slumped back into authoritarianism?
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Naomi Campbell - Supermodel and Businesswoman
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In an exclusive interview for HARDtalk as part of the BBC's 100 Women season, Zeinab Badawi speaks to supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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Bryan Hughes - Texas State Senator (Republican)
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Republicans in Texas have managed to ban abortion in almost all cases in their state. Anyone performing, aiding or abetting the termination of a pregnancy after roughly six weeks can be .. show full overview
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Roger Deakins - Cinematographer
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Stephen Sackur speaks to the acclaimed British cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins. He had made a long list of films and won two Oscars for the films 1917 and Bladerunner 2049. But is .. show full overview
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Nitin Sawhney - Musician and Composer
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Stephen Sackur speaks to renowned British Indian musician and composer Nitin Sawhney. From a childhood disfigured by racism to the embrace of the UK's cultural elite, what are the common threads in his remarkable career?
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Rafael Grossi - Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency
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Zeinab Badawi speaks to Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, amid concern about renewed tensions over Iran’s nuclear programme. Tehran insists that .. show full overview
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Michel Barnier - Former EU Chief Brexit Negotiator
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The crisis over a lack of supplies in the UK triggered by a shortage of truck drivers has reignited the debate about the consequences of Brexit. This comes on top of concerns about the .. show full overview
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Niklas Frank - Son of Hans Frank, Governor General of Nazi Occupied Poland
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Seventy five years on from the verdict of the Nuremberg trials where some of the most senior Nazis were sentenced to death for war crimes, HARDtalk repeats its 2017 interview with the .. show full overview
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Ben Ferencz - Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
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Seventy-five years after the Nuremberg Military Tribunals convicted some of the most senior Nazis of war crimes and crimes against humanity, HARDtalk repeats its 2017 interview with the .. show full overview
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Richard Thaler - Professor of Behavioural Science and Economics
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From Covid to climate change, governments around the world face challenges which demand modifications of human behaviour. When it comes to getting people to do things differently, what .. show full overview
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Richard Deverell - Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Richard Deverell, the director of Kew Gardens. He has big ambitions to put Kew, which is home to one of the world’s largest collections of living plants, at the .. show full overview
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Sergei Ryabkov - Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. Moscow is set to be a major beneficiary of the extraordinary spike in fossil fuel energy prices - does that mean .. show full overview
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David Baddiel - Comedian and Writer
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Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and comedian David Baddiel, who has a gift for finding the funny in some of the darkest corners of the human psyche. Now he is taking on our often toxic .. show full overview
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Adela Raz - Afghanistan's Ambassador to the U.S.
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Adela Raz, still officially Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, though the Taliban disowns her and the Americans ignore her. In the face of a looming .. show full overview
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Philippe Sands QC - Lawyer and Writer
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75 years ago the first Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals came to an end. The groundbreaking international tribunal handed down 12 death sentences. In the years that followed, there .. show full overview
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Henry Marsh - Neurosurgeon
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Stephen Sackur speaks to brain surgeon Henry Marsh whose book Do No Harm became a bestseller. Now he is confronting his own advanced cancer and lobbying for the legalisation of assisted .. show full overview
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Andrew Forrest - Chairman, Fortescue Metals Group
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Australian billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest, who is using a chunk of his fortune to push a green, hydrogen-based energy solution. In the run-up to the .. show full overview
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Ariel Dorfman - Writer
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Stephen Sackur speaks to acclaimed novelist and playwright Ariel Dorfman. His life has been shaped by political upheaval and exile. He fled Chile after General Pinochet seized power in .. show full overview
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Bruno Le Maire - Economy and Finance Minister, France
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Stephen Sackur speaks to French finance minister Bruno Le Maire. France is in recovery mode after the damaging impact of Covid but is struggling to deliver on long promised economic .. show full overview
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Fatih Birol - Executive Director International Energy Agency
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HARDtalk Stephen Sackur speaks to Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, who believes greenhouse gas emissions can effectively be eliminated within .. show full overview
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Albin Kurti - Prime Minister of Kosovo
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Kosovo has enjoyed independent statehood for 13 years but almost half the world does not recognise it. Stephen Sackur speaks to prime minister Albin Kurti, who has had a turbulent .. show full overview
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Fiona Hill - Senior Director, US National Security Council, 2017-2019
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The Trump presidency challenged many public officials to make a choice - obey directives from the White House against their better judgment - or take a stand and face the wrath of the .. show full overview
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Mike Leigh - Director
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Stephen Sackur speaks to the acclaimed British director Mike Leigh. For five decades he has told stories about believable characters facing very human dilemmas. They're painstakingly put .. show full overview
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Patrice Evra - Former Manchester United and France Football Captain
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Of all the football-mad cities in the world, few can compete with Manchester - home to two of the world's richest clubs, United and City. Football's global appeal cannot disguise the .. show full overview
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Pawel Jablonski - Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland
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Zeinab Badawi speaks to the deputy foreign minister of Poland Pawel Jablonski. In the light of the latest tensions between Warsaw and the EU, could Poland, in time, follow Britain's lead and exit the EU?
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Ritchie Torres - Congressman for New York (Democrat)
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Stephen Sackur is in south Bronx, New York, to speak to rising star of the Democratic Party Ritchie Torres. He is the first gay black man elected to congress and a vocal champion for the .. show full overview
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George Takei - Actor
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Stephen Sackur talks to George Takei, forever famous as Lieutenant Sulu in Star Trek. Interned as a child in the United States for being of Japanese origin, he now campaigns for gay and immigrant rights. Do the values of Star Trek still resonate?
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Ryan Girdusky - Founder of the 1776 Project political action committee
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Stephen Sackur speaks to influential Republican activist Ryan Girdusky who is on the front line of America's culture wars. Founder of political action committee 1776 Project, he wants to .. show full overview
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Péter Márki-Zay - Leader of United Opposition, Hungary
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Stephen Sackur interviews Hungarian opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay who hopes to unseat Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, in the elections next spring. Can this political novice really topple Europe's most controversial leader?
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Rana Ayyub - Journalist
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Stephen Sackur speaks to the Indian investigative journalist Rana Ayyub whose determination to dig deep into the past and present of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has prompted .. show full overview
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Nicolai Tangen - CEO of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Nicolai Tangen, head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund - worth more than $1.4 trillion, it's the biggest in the world. Fossil fuels have given Norwegians vast wealth. Are they now ready to wean themselves off oil and gas?
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Ken Buck - Congressman for Colorado (Republican)
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Republican congressman Ken Buck, a libertarian on issues of gun control and Covid, but a supporter of breaking up America's big tech giants. Do America's .. show full overview
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Paul Auster - Author
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Stephen Sackur is in New York to speak to writer Paul Auster, whose novels and screenplays reflect the vibrant, complex cultural melting pot that is New York city. If America is experiencing a culture war, is he ready to join the fight?
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Moeed Yusuf - National Security Advisor of Pakistan
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Stephen Sackur speaks with Moeed Yusuf, National Security Advisor of Pakistan. The Taliban is back in power in neighbouring Afghanistan. US and NATO forces are gone. Pakistan sees opportunities in this new reality but are there grave dangers too?
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John Kerry - US Special Envoy for Climate
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When it comes to the global response to the climate change emergency, it pays to differentiate between words and deeds. At the Cop26 summit in Glasgow the chorus of concern from world .. show full overview
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Sathnam Sanghera - Author and Journalist
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Stephen Sackur speaks to author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera whose bestselling book Empireland takes a critical look at Britain's imperial past. Confronting truth means challenging .. show full overview
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Ernesto Araújo - Former Brazilian Foreign Minister
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Brazil's former foreign minister Ernesto Araújo who was an arch critic of global efforts to contain Covid, calling them communistic. Brazil's government now stands accused of failing to protect its people. Is that fair?
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Stephen Sackur is in New York to speak to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. He shares his fascination with space with millions of Americans, but here on earth science is under pressure - from Covid to climate change. Is trust in science dwindling?