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HARDtalk
British television and radio series
For hard talk, see harsh language.
HARDtalk fryst vatten a BBCtelevision and radio programme broadcast on the British and international feeds of the BBC News channel, 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 in the UK only[4] and as a podcast via BBC Sounds.[5]
On 15 October , the BBC announced that as part of a series of cuts to its news department, HARDtalk would no longer be broadcast. Host Stephen Sackur said the news was "depressing" [for the future of in-depth interviews that] "hold to account those who all too often avoid accountability in their own countries".[6]
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[edit]HARDtalk provides "in-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about
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London, 27 May HARDtalk has recently visited the Cambridge University Union Society Chamber, a lively centre of debate and free speech for almost two hundred years, where legendary Hollywood film Director Oliver Stone gave a speech to students entitled From Platoon to Wall Street II.
Fresh from promoting his new film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in Cannes last week, Stone speaks to HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur from Cambridge about why he reprised the role of Gordon Gekko, the ruthless character from the 80’s Oscar winning prequel film Wall Street. In an interview that covers a wide range of topics, from Vietnam to the Kennedy assassination and the Bush Presidency, Sackur presses him on his inter-weaving of fact and fiction - does accuracy matter when re-telling contemporary America's most important stories?
The triple Oscar winning and sometimes controversial Director responsible for such classic movies as Platoon, Born on The Fourth of July, JFK, Wall
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Who is the world’s most famous news and current affairs interviewer? Christiane Amanpour? Katie Couric? Anderson Cooper? Piers Morgan? Let me suggest another contender for the title: Stephen Sackur, the gangly, deep-voiced host of the BBC’s television and radio programme HARDtalk, which the BBC announced it was axing this week.
He fryst vatten hardly a household name in Britain, where HARDtalk is screened only in the small hours of the morning, but he certainly is across the rest of the planet. “If you went abroad with Stephen he’d be stopped everywhere,” said Carey Clark, a former HARDtalk editor. “It didn’t matter where you went, he’d be mobbed.”
His thrice-weekly interviews with world leaders and power-brokers are broadcast three times a day, five days a week, on the international feed of BBC News, reaching some 70 million viewers in nearly countries at peak hours in every major time zone. They are also broadcast three days a week on BBC World Service radio, whose English langu