HARDtalk Extra
Interviews with people from the arts and culture.
HARDtalk Extra - Actress Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn tells Gavin Esler how she built herself an acting career - an idea she admits seemed 'far fetched' to an impoverished youngster from Ramsgate after the war.
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HARDtalk Extra - Architect Charles Correa
Razia Iqbal talks to Charles Correa, India's most renowned architect and urban planner. He explains why Indian cities offer the country's best hope for the future.
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HARDtalk Extra - Author Doris Lessing
Gavin Esler talks to author Doris Lessing, who left England in the 1920s with her parents to settle and farm in what is now Zimbabwe.
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HARDtalk Extra - Author Hari Kunzru
Author, Hari Kunzru, talks to Gavin Esler about the fate of multiculturalism in Britain, and the importance of freedom of speech for writers.
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HARDtalk Extra - Author Michael Chabon
Interviews with newsworthy personalities. Gavin Esler talks to Michael Chabon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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HARDtalk Extra - Classical musician Amjad Ali Khan
An interview with Amjad Ali Khan, one of India's best-known classical musicians and an acknowledged master of the sarod, a fretless string instrument that is very difficult to play.
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HARDtalk Extra - Crime novelist Ian Rankin.
Gavin Esler interviews crime novelist Ian Rankin, the creator of Detective Inspector Rebus.
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HARDtalk Extra - Film star Dev Anand
In his first UK television interview to discuss his autobiography, Romancing with Life, Dev Anand speaks to Razia Iqbal for HARDtalk Extra in Delhi.
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Gavin Esler talks to the Booker Prize winning novelist Pat Barker.
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HARDtalk Extra - Model Marie Helvin
Gavin Esler talks to Marie Helvin, one of the most photographed faces of the 1970s and 1980s who has decided to return to modelling in her fifties in a notoriously ageist industry.
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HARDtalk Extra - Novelist Barbara Kingsolver
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver talks to Gavin Esler about her latest project, a personal investigation into America's food industry.
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HARDtalk Extra - Patrick Swayze
A 2006 interview in which Gavin Esler talks to Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, best known for the films Ghost and Dirty Dancing, who has died following a long battle with cancer.
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HARDtalk Extra - Pop star Haroon
Haroon is one of Pakistan's biggest pop stars. Razia Iqbal talks to him about the place of pop music in modern Pakistan.
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HARDtalk Extra - Singer Deborah Harry
Gavin Esler interviews singer Deborah Harry, the iconic face of Blondie – a band that helped define the sound of new wave.
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HARDtalk Extra - Singer Marc Almond
Gavin Esler talks to Marc Almond, in a wide-ranging and highly personal interview.
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HARDtalk Extra - Singer Robin Gibb
It's been 30 years since the Bee Gees released Saturday Night Fever. Robin Gibb talks about the loss of his brother and why the Bee Gees are still popular today.
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