BBC HARDtalk

Legacy account. 28 years of in-depth interviews with world leaders and opinion formers. March 1997 to March 2025

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1/ Ahead of HARDtalk’s closure later this month, we’ve been through 27 yrs of archive to bring you some of the highlights…

“We exchanged some hard blows, him and I” – Hugo Chavez

Venezuela’s late president gave a press conference on his 2010 Caracas tussle with Stephen Sackur

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28/28 At the end of an interview with Stephen Sackur in 2023, the acclaimed musician Baaba Maal played us out

Thank you all for watching and listening. It has been an honour and a privilege to make this show for you

Best wishes from the HARDtalk team

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1/ Ahead of HARDtalk’s closure later this month, we’ve been through 27 yrs of archive to bring you some of the highlights…

“We exchanged some hard blows, him and I” – Hugo Chavez

Venezuela’s late president gave a press conference on his 2010 Caracas tussle with Stephen Sackur

[BBC HARDtalk @BBCHARDtalk]

27/28 “We all have our interests but let us build a structure and institution that would discuss this” – Mikhail Gorbachev

Speaking to Stephen in 2014 after the invasion of Crimea, the late Soviet leader said peace and security could only be achieved through multilateralism