HARDtalk: 2015 season 2024

Rory Stewart - Chair of UK Defence Select Committee

Yehuda Glick

Costas Lapavitsas

Bruno Macaes - Portugal's secretary of state for Europe

Flemming Rose - Cultural Editor, Jyllands-Posten

Richard Barrett, Former Director of Global Counter Terrorism Operations, UK

Suha Arafat - Widow of Yasser Arafat

Werner Herzog - Film Director

Wu'er Kaixi - Chinese dissident

Luigi Zingales - economist

Robbie Rogers - Footballer

Moazzam Begg

Lukman Faily - Iraqi Ambassador to the United States

Jay Naidoo - Political and social activist

Pierre Moscovici - EU Finance Commissioner

Anne Glover - Former EU Chief Scientific Advisor

Juan Mendez, United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture

Andrey Kurkov

Kenneth Roth - Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

General Asad Durrani

Gebran Bassil, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Lebanon

Bernd Lucke - Founder, Alternative For Germany

Tef Poe - Rapper and Activist

Vadym Prystaiko - Deputy Foreign Minister, Ukraine

Michael Fuchs - Senior Economic Adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel

Professor Robert Winston - Scientist

Aimen Dean

Baroness Warsi, Former Faith and Communities Minister, UK

Osita Chidoka - Minsiter for Aviation, Nigeria

Neil Woodford - Fund Manager

On the Road in the Philippines

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle

Lord Levy, former Middle East envoy and Labour party fundraiser

Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Human Rights Activist and Writer

Douglas Carswell MP, UK Independence Party

General Sir Richard Shirreff, former deputy supreme allied commander, Nato

David Laws MP, Liberal Democrat Minister

Mark Millar - Comic book author

Nick Hanauer - Venture Capitalist

Benny Tai - Hong Kong Democracy Activist

John Caudwell - Billionaire businessman

Nile Rodgers - Music Producer

Mohammed AlHussaini Al Sharif - Chief Representative of the Arab League in the USA

Valerie Amos - UN Under Sec-Gen for Humanitarian Affairs

Maria Corina Machado - Venezuelan opposition politician

Justin Forsyth - Chief Executive, Save the Children UK

Brandon Bryant - Former US Drone Operator

Jean-Claude Trichet - President European Central Bank, 2003-2011

Pippa Malmgren - Economist and technology entrepreneur

Leslee Udwin, Producer and Director of India's Daughter

Isaac Herzog - Chairman of the Labor Party, Israel

Irvine Welsh - Author

Kayode Fayemi - Chief Strategist to Nigeria's President-Elect

Philip Nitschke - Founder and Director of Exit International

Vladimir Ashurkov - Central Council member of the Progress Party, Russia

Dr Richard Haass - President of the Council on Foreign Relations

Maria Luís Albuquerque

Amr Darrag - Former Egyptian Minister, Freedom and Justice Party

12/05/2015

Sergio Jaramillo - Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace

Don McLean - Singer-songwriter

Jonathan Moyo - Information Minister, Zimbabwe

HARDtalk on the Road - South Africa

Pravin Gordhan

Emma Sky - Political Advisor to the Commander of US Forces in Iraq (2007 - 2010)

Mohamed Ibn Chambas - UN Special Representative for West Africa

Saeb Erekat

Colm Tóibín - Author

Guy Verhofstadt, Alliance of Liberals & Democrats for Europe

Wu Jianmin, Foreign Policy Advisory Group, Chinese Foreign Ministry

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Mahmoud Jibril, Former interim Prime Minister

Alexei Sorokin - Chief of Russia's World Cup Organising Committee

Alexei Ulyukayev - Russia's Minister for Economic Development

Jose Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission 2004 - 2014

Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani - President of the Reform Now Movement, Sudan

Frances O'Grady - General Secretary of Trade Union Congress, UK

Etyen Mahçupyan - Former Senior Adviser to Turkey's Prime Minister

Julia Gillard - prime minister of Australia 2010 - 2013

Susan Pollack - Holocaust Survivor

Hugh Masekela - Musician and Activist

Bernard Jenkin

Sir Martin Sorrell - Founder, WPP

Jürgen Todenhöfer - Writer and Filmmaker

Mmusi Maimane - Leader of South Africa's Democratic Alliance

Giorgos Katrougalos, Minister for Administrative Reform

Philip Gordon - White House coordinator for Middle East policy, 2013 - 2015

William Schabas - Former Head of UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry into Events in Gaza in 2014

Valdis Dombrovskis

Roberto Saviano - Author

Mikheil Saakashvili - Governor of Odessa Region, Ukraine

Kellie Maloney - Boxing Promoter

HARDtalk on the Road: Russia

Jens Stoltenberg - Secretary General of NATO

Yassine Brahim - Minister for Development, Tunisia

Bryan Stevenson - Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative

David Howman, Director General, World Anti-Doping Agency

Marc Quinn, Artist

Stathis Kouvelakis

Tim Loughton, MP for Worthing East and Shoreham, UK, in discussion with Philippe Mignonet, deputy mayor of Calais, France

Ertugrul Kurkcu - Honorary President People's Democratic Party

Sylvie Guillem - Ballet Dancer

The Future of Socialism

Barbara Hulanicki, Fashion designer

Nikola Poposki

Catherine McCartney - sister of Robert McCartney, murdered in Belfast, 2005.

Raul Romeva, Together for Yes coalition, Catalonia, Spain

Nick Bostrom, Director of The Future of Humanity Institute

Aref Ali Nayed, Libyan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates

Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini

Andrew Forrest, Chairman, Fortescue Metals Group

Tinatin Khidasheli

Crispin Blunt MP

Noman Benotman, President of Quilliam Foundation

Peter Szijjarto

Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy, France

Ayman Asfari

Michael Nazir-Ali, Anglican Bishop

Mohamed Fahmy

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs.

Don McCullin, Photographer

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

Ursula von der Leyen, German Defence Minister

Lord Weidenfeld, Chairman, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Dr Joanne Liu, President of Médecins Sans Frontières

Eric Cantor - Former House Majority Leader, US Republican Party

Robert S Ford - US Ambassador to Syria (2011-2014)

Richard Leakey - Chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service

Yair Lapid - Leader, Yesh Atid Party, Israel

Dmitry Peskov, Spokesman for Vladimir Putin

Ben Bernanke, Former Chairman, US Federal Reserve

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to United Nations

Matthew Barzun, US Ambassador to the UK

Lord Mandelson - Former Labour Government Minister, UK

Saeb Erekat, secretary general, Palestine Liberation Organisation

Len McCluskey, General Secretary, Unite the Union

Nicolas Henin, Journalist and Former Hostage

Nigel Owens - International Rugby Union Referee

Celso Amorim - Brazilian Government Minister (2003 - January 2015)

Admiral James Stavridis - Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia

HARDtalk on the Road in Puerto Rico

Julius Malema, Commander-in-Chief, Economic Freedom Fighters, South Africa

Frank Habineza, Leader, Democratic Green Party, Rwanda

Monzer Akbik, member of the Syrian National Coalition

Peter Mutharika, President of Malawi

Hage Geingob, President of Namibia

Burt Reynolds, actor

Ouided Bouchamaoui, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

On the Road in Colombia

Tokyo Sexwale, Fifa Presidential Candidate

Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon - Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

Lord Turner

Review of the Year 2015