BBC HARDtalk
@BBCHARDtalk · London, UK · joined 29 Jan 2009
Legacy account. 28 years of in-depth interviews with world leaders and opinion formers. March 1997 to March 2025
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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 https://t.co/3lYD5uYRGT
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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 http
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26/28 “The Democratic party has failed us” – Jane Fonda
In front of a live audience in 2017, the Hollywood star and activist explained why Donald Trump was winning over working class voters in the US https://t.co/PrdoIpXOwa
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25/28 “Don’t make me laugh” – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
In 2018, in his first BBC interview in a decade, Turkey’s president rejected suggestions political dissent was being repressed and his country was sliding towards authoritarianism. “In Turkey we have the ballot box,” he said htt
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24/28 “You may be hard talking but you’re not listening” – Sergei Lavrov
In 2018, Russia’s foreign minister denied Moscow was involved in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. He claimed UK intelligence services may have been behind it h
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23/28 “I’m the accidental actor” - Shah Rukh Khan
The Bollywood star revealed to Zeinab Badawi in 2018 that journalism’s loss was acting’s gain https://t.co/nZWGCI5Lgr
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22/28 “Would you honestly say you hear much art on the radio?” – George Michael
The late singer-songwriter, who rose to fame with the pop duo Wham, lamented the state of the music industry in an interview with Tim Sebastian in 2003 https://t.co/EpS80ui5Ru
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21/28 “I can assure you that I am real” – Alexei Navalny
In 2017, Stephen spoke to the Russian opposition leader in Moscow about his decision to run against Vladimir Putin for the country’s presidency. Navalny died in prison in Russia last year https://t.co/mPsvOEi0H9
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20/28 “When I understood, in my business at 18 years old, what I was up against, I opened my mouth” – Naomi Campbell
The supermodel spoke to Zeinab Badawi in 2021 about confronting racism in the fashion industry early on in her career https://t.co/DYI4CErcOd
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19/28 “To think about your past, the present and the future… is very rewarding” – Nelson Mandela
Reflecting on the 27 years he spent in prison, South Africa’s president told George Alagiah in 1997 he had considered everything: his mistakes, weaknesses and hopes https://t.co/Twaj
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18/28 “Under occupation… No one will have safety and no one will have peace” - Motaz Azaiza
In 2024, the photojournalist told Stephen Sackur he feared there was no hope for Gaza and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians “will never end” https://t.co/boUMOD0fvM
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17/28 “All I can do is be my authentic self” – Gwyneth Paltrow
In 2016, the actor, businesswoman and lifestyle guru hit back at her critics during an interview with Stephen Sackur in front of a live audience https://t.co/Uhbq5AzcJh
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16/28 “It’s a fragile little thing isn’t it” – Michael Collins
In an interview at his home in Florida in 2019, the late Apollo 11 astronaut described the moment he looked back at the Earth during the historic mission to the Moon https://t.co/s36KwMuMAe
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15/28 “The norm in show business is failure” – William Shatner
The actor, who found global fame as Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek, reflected on the unexpected success of the show in a 2012 interview with “Stevie” Sackur https://t.co/qPyeN0V6jg
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14/28 “Life is a gift” – Jerry Springer
The late talk show host spoke to Stephen Sackur in 2014 about his “lucky life” and said he’d do it all again https://t.co/JNunMl7czW
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13/28 “We have not learned that you cannot kill an ideology with a gun” – Ben Ferencz
The chief prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg speaking to Zeinab Badawi in 2017 https://t.co/RjQADbcgHB
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12/28 “The problem is toxic masculinity” – Ashley Judd
In the wake of the Me Too movement, the actor sat down with Stephen Sackur in 2018 to discuss how "the patriarchy" was limiting for everyone https://t.co/e7ErrLCafZ
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11/28 “I was on my death bed” – Duff McKagan
The Guns N’ Roses bassist spoke to Sarah Montague in 2011 about how the years of heavy boozing almost killed him and how his mother inspired him to give it up
📺 https://t.co/Ie3FZNRe8j https://t.co/jursJgyybY
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10/28 “A novel… is the only place... where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy” – Paul Auster
The great American writer, who died last year, spoke to Stephen Sackur in 2021 about the enduring power of literature https://t.co/crC13BAGON
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9/28 “You are a very unpleasant man” – Mira Marković
The late wife of Slobodan Milošević didn’t like being questioned by Tim Sebastian in 1999 about atrocities committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia https://t.co/XV493fdUv8
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8/28 “Let me tell you a secret” – Daniel Ellsberg
The Pentagon Papers whistleblower revealed for the first time in 2022 that he had been in possession of the US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks and would have found a way “to get them out” if Julian Assange had been unable
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7/28 “It makes me feel like I lost all right to my privacy” – Mia Khalifa
In 2019, the former adult actress talked about the lasting trauma of working in the porn industry. The full interview is one of the BBC’s most watched videos
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6/28 “We all support the effort in Ukraine” – Nancy Pelosi
The former speaker of the US House of Representatives in 2023 proving in politics things change gradually, then suddenly https://t.co/E9X5M4WplR
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5/28 “I got a gun… and I followed him to a restaurant” – Nina Simone
The late great singer speaking to Tim Sebastian in 1999 about dealing with a record company executive who’d tried to rip her off https://t.co/hzBhK01yzx
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@BBCHARDtalk I will surely miss Shakur! on the hard talk show. I wish him nothing but the best on his other adventures.
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@BBCHARDtalk A classy (& beautiful) way to end…
Just incredibly sad (& short-sighted & stupid) that it is ending at all…
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@BBCHARDtalk Subline - may you all be embraced by employment worthy of you. And thank you.
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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 https://t.co/qNSH2WdW8o
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Stephen reflects on some of the encounters and moments that demonstrated the show’s commitment to rigorous, well-researched interviews with people in power
Featuring: Hugo Chávez, Omar al-Bashir, Boris Johnson and others
📻 https://t.co/WcPjqhNW9r
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Before the final curtain, Stephen looks back at some of his favourite interviews from recent years
Featuring: Hugo Chávez, Omar al-Bashir, Boris Johnson and others
📺 [UK only]
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes65.2%564 in total
Reposts16.9%146 in total
Replies7.2%62 in total
Quotes2.0%17 in total
Bookmarks8.8%76 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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