HARDtalk - Season 11 / Year 2014

Season 11 / Year 2014

Episodes

Mike Mack - CEO, Syngenta

Giles Duley - Photographer

Keir Starmer QC

Ben Emmerson QC - UN Rapporteur, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights

Eve Ensler - Playwright and activist

Dean Spielmann - President of the European Court of Human Rights

Robert Gates - US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011

Ed Davey - British Energy and Climate Change Secretary

Yehia Hamed - Former Minister, Freedom and Justice Party, Egypt

Harris Georgiades - Minister of Finance, Republic of Cyprus

Justin Welby - Archbishop of Canterbury

Palaniappan Chidambaram - Finance Minister, India

Omar Abdullah - Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

Hussain Al-Shahristani - Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq

Kavita Krishnan - Secretary, All India Progressive Women's Association

David Bailey - Photographer

Marion Bartoli

William Hague - British Foreign Secretary

Cardinal Peter Turkson

Barnaba Marial Benjamin - Foreign Minister, South Sudan

Alden McLaughlin - Premier of the Cayman Islands

Allen Ault - Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA

Dieter Zetsche - Chairman Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars

Saeb Erekat - Palestinian Authority Chief Negotiator

Binyavanga Wainaina - Kenyan Author

Livia Jaroka MEP - Fidesz Party, Hungary

Naftali Bennett - Minister for Economy, Israel

Lazaro Nyalandu - Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania

Eugenia Tymoshenko - Daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko

David Keene - President, US National Rifle Association, 2011-13

Jerry Springer - Host, 'Jerry Springer'

Andriy Shevchenko MP - Fatherland Party, Ukraine and Alexander Nekrassov - Former Kremlin Advisor

Ivo Daalder - US Ambassador to Nato 2009 - 2013, Ihor Dolhov - Ukraine's Ambassador to Nato

Ricardo Alarcon - President, Cuban National Assembly, 1993 - 2013

Radoslaw Sikorski - Foreign Minister of Poland

Cody Wilson - Founder, Defense Distributed

Ai Weiwei - Artist

Jin Liqun - Chairman, China International Capital Corporation

Ukraine Special

Rosen Plevneliev - Bulgarian President

Charles Zhang - CEO, Sohu.com

Tamara Rojo - Artistic Director/Lead Principal, English National Ballet

Hala Shukrallah - President - Constitution Party, Egypt

Kenneth Kaunda - President of Zambia (1964-1991)

Zwelinzima Vavi - Suspended Head of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Daphne Mashile-Nkosi - CEO, Kalagadi Manganese, South Africa

Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Interim Prime Minister, Ukraine

Emmanuel Jal - Musician and former child soldier

Romario and Luis Fernandes

Izabella Teixeira - Minister of the Environment, Brazil

Jean Paul Gaultier -French Fashion Designer

Jose Padilha, Brazilian film maker

Major Richard Streatfeild - Former British Army Officer

Geraldine Finucane - Campaigning widow of Pat Finucane

Boris Nemtsov - Russian Opposition Leader and Strobe Talbott - Deputy US Secretary of State (1994-2001)

Romario - Brazilian Congressman and Former Footballer

Ahmed Kathrada - Anti-Apartheid activist

Rime Allaf - Presidential Adviser, Syrian National Coalition

Jeremy Rifkin - Economist

Abu Bakr al-Qirbi - Foreign Minister, Yemen

Malcolm Turnbull - Minister for Communications, Australia

Makaziwe Mandela - Daughter of Nelson Mandela

Wole Soyinka - Nobel Literature Laureate

Natalia Kaliada - Co-founder, Free Belarus Theatre

Riek Machar - former Vice President of South Sudan

Supa Mandiwanzira - Deputy Information Minister, Zimbabwe

Viggo Mortensen - Actor

Laurent Fabius - Foreign Minister, France

Salva Kiir Mayardit - President of South Sudan

Victoria Nuland - US Assistant Secretary of State

Urmas Paet - Foreign Minister, Estonia

HARDtalk on the Road - South Sudan

Professor Christoph Schmidt - Chair, German Council of Economic Experts

Kizza Besigye - Ugandan opposition leader

Professor Sergey Karaganov - Advisor to the Presidential Administration of Russia, 2001 - 2013

Christian Purslow - Liverpool FC Managing Director, 2009 - 2010

Doyin Okupe - Senior Adviser to Nigeria's President

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Author

Jack Straw - British Foreign Secretary (2001 - 2006)

David LaChapelle - Photographer

Mario Monti - Prime Minister of Italy (2011 - 2013)

Carolyn McCall - CEO, easyJet

Helen Clark - Administrator of UN Development Programme

Tariq al-Hashimi - Former Vice-President of Iraq

Thomas Piketty - Economist

Aubrey De Grey - chief science officer and co-founder of the SENS Foundation

Patrick Honohan - Governor, Central Bank of Ireland

Deirdre McCloskey - Economic Historian

Zuhair Al-Naher - UK Spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister's Dawa Party and Christopher Hill - US Ambassador to Iraq, 2009 - 2010

Anthony Loyd - War Correspondent

Ilan Pappe - Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK

Salih Muslim Mohammed - Democratic Union Party, Syria

Mohamoud Nur - Mayor of Mogadishu, Dec 2010 - Mar 2014

Carl Bildt - Swedish Foreign Minister

Dore Gold - Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel

Osama Hamdan - Hamas Spokesman for International Relations

Chris Packham - Naturalist and wildlife filmmaker

Lord Falconer - Former UK Secretary of State for Justice

Ama Ata Aidoo - Author

Obiageli Ezekwesili - Former Education Minister, Nigeria

Danny Danon - Former Deputy Defence Minister, Israel

Khaled Meshaal - Leader of Hamas

HARDtalk on the Road: Moldova

HARDtalk on Location: Iurie Leancă

HARDtalk on Location: Yevgeny Shevchuk

Karl von Habsburg

Andrei Konchalovsky - Russian Film Director

John Kerry - US Secretary of State

Xiaolu Guo

Armando Guebuza - President of Mozambique

Anders Fogh Rasmussen - Secretary General of NATO

Masrour Barzani

Dr Mads Gilbert - Doctor and Activist

Abdullah Abdullah - Afghan Presidential Candidate

Bishop Angaelos of the Egyptian Coptic Church

Ali Khedery - Special Assistant to the US Ambassador to Iraq, 2003-2009

Yuval Steinitz - Minister of Intelligence, Israel

Yasser Abed Rabbo - Secretary General, Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive Committee

Gideon Levy - Journalist from Haaretz newspaper, Israel

Olexander Scherba - Ambassador-at-large, Ukraine Foreign Ministry

Giorgi Margvelashvili

Petro Poroshenko - President of Ukraine

Jose Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission

John McCain - United States Senator

Chrissie Hynde - Singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Danny Dorling - Professor of Geography, University of Oxford

Peter Bofinger - Member of the German Council of Economic Experts

Luis Moreno-Ocampo - Chief Prosecutor, ICC (2003 - 2012)

Professor Susan Greenfield - Neuroscientist

Ibrahim Dabbashi - Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations

Francis Fukuyama - Political scientist

Lord Heseltine - UK Deputy Prime Minister 1995-97

Jessye Norman - Opera singer

Lord Stern - Economist

Gilles de Kerchove - EU Counterterrorism Coordinator

Professor Peter Piot - Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Mathias Döpfner - CEO, Axel Springer

General Lord Richards - Chief of the Defence Staff, British Armed Forces (2010-13)

David Miliband - CEO, International Rescue Committee

Alexander Stubb - Prime Minister of Finland

Joe Hockey MP - Treasurer, Australia

Sir David Tang - Founder, Shanghai Tang

Giandomenico Picco - Former UN Negotiator

Mehmet Fatih Ceylan - Turkish Ambassador to NATO

James Jeffrey - Former US Ambassador to Iraq

Emily Lau - Chairperson, Hong Kong Democratic Party

Mitchell Baker - Executive Chairwoman, Mozilla

Shehu Sani - Nigerian human rights activist

Francis Rossi - guitarist, singer and founder of Status Quo

Abu Bakarr Fofanah - Minister of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone

Atul Gawande - Surgeon and Writer

Walter Mzembi, Tourism Minister, Zimbabwe

Mowaffak al-Rubaie - Former National Security Advisor of Iraq

Mikhail Gorbachev - President of the Soviet Union 1990-1991

Hadi al-Bahra - President of the Syrian National Coalition

Shurooq Amin - Artist and Poet

Sir Nicholas Winton

Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of Russia

Alan Cumming - Actor

Dr Geraldine O'Hara

Pervez Musharraf

David Blunkett

James Ellroy - Crime Writer

Robert Serry - UN Special Coordinator, Middle East Peace Process

Sir Antony Sher

Cornel West - Writer and Academic

Alaa Al Aswany - Author and Columnist

Thuli Madonsela - Public Protector, South Africa

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai - joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Lord Coe

Monica Grady - Scientist

Yves Daccord, director general of the International Red Cross

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