The prospect of Newsnight ending is not just about saving money.
The BBC axed Dateline London and Hardtalk that were cheap as chips to produce.
The BBC doesn't like in depth intelligent political programmes.
The BBC axed Dateline London and Hardtalk that were cheap as chips to produce.
The BBC doesn't like in depth intelligent political programmes.
August 27, 2026 at 9:16 AM
The prospect of Newsnight ending is not just about saving money.
The BBC axed Dateline London and Hardtalk that were cheap as chips to produce.
The BBC doesn't like in depth intelligent political programmes.
The BBC axed Dateline London and Hardtalk that were cheap as chips to produce.
The BBC doesn't like in depth intelligent political programmes.
BBC News scraps really good
and inexpensive programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk but splashes out on a helicopter to track Andy Burnham.
Give me friggin' strength.
and inexpensive programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk but splashes out on a helicopter to track Andy Burnham.
Give me friggin' strength.
June 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
BBC News scraps really good
and inexpensive programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk but splashes out on a helicopter to track Andy Burnham.
Give me friggin' strength.
and inexpensive programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk but splashes out on a helicopter to track Andy Burnham.
Give me friggin' strength.
The BBC cancels 'cheap as chips" intelligent programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk but has a dingy correspondent live in Dunkerque.
What a craven and weak organisation.
What a craven and weak organisation.
July 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The BBC cancels 'cheap as chips" intelligent programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk but has a dingy correspondent live in Dunkerque.
What a craven and weak organisation.
What a craven and weak organisation.
I’ve had a lifetime of disagreements with John McCain (who died in 2018), but this interview from 2014 aged incredibly well. It was his Nostradamus moment. He nailed Putin.🎯
I have no doubt he would have “done a Jim Jeffords” and defected from today’s Republican party. vtdigger.org/2021/05/23/w...
I have no doubt he would have “done a Jim Jeffords” and defected from today’s Republican party. vtdigger.org/2021/05/23/w...
Putin is 'rebuilding Russian empire' says Senator McCain - BBC HARDtalk
YouTube video by BBC HARDtalk
youtu.be
February 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I’ve had a lifetime of disagreements with John McCain (who died in 2018), but this interview from 2014 aged incredibly well. It was his Nostradamus moment. He nailed Putin.🎯
I have no doubt he would have “done a Jim Jeffords” and defected from today’s Republican party. vtdigger.org/2021/05/23/w...
I have no doubt he would have “done a Jim Jeffords” and defected from today’s Republican party. vtdigger.org/2021/05/23/w...
E ainda vive sob ameaças de morte de fundamentalistas por ter feito os filmes, que é algo que ficou bem lá no passado.
Tem uma entrevista muito boa dela pra BBC
Tem uma entrevista muito boa dela pra BBC
February 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
E ainda vive sob ameaças de morte de fundamentalistas por ter feito os filmes, que é algo que ficou bem lá no passado.
Tem uma entrevista muito boa dela pra BBC
Tem uma entrevista muito boa dela pra BBC
A special birthday release from the vault. Happy birthday to James, seen here performing "Fire & Rain" on the British TV show "HardTalk" in 2008 ➡️ youtu.be/8PPEYkRParI
#JT #JamesTaylor #HappyBirthday
#JT #JamesTaylor #HappyBirthday
James Taylor - Fire and Rain (Hardtalk, April 9, 2008)
YouTube video by James Taylor
youtu.be
March 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A special birthday release from the vault. Happy birthday to James, seen here performing "Fire & Rain" on the British TV show "HardTalk" in 2008 ➡️ youtu.be/8PPEYkRParI
#JT #JamesTaylor #HappyBirthday
#JT #JamesTaylor #HappyBirthday
Hardtalk was so good, but I guess the current political climate doesn't really like challenge
August 27, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Hardtalk was so good, but I guess the current political climate doesn't really like challenge
George Michael forever, RIP
HARDtalk with George Michael (Part 1/3)
YouTube video by George Michael NL
youtu.be
December 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
George Michael forever, RIP
A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.
In a 1999 episode of BBC HARDtalk, Tim Sebastian asked Nina Simone “So you sing from anger?” Nina said “I sing from intelligence.”
Today is Nina Simone’s born day. My love for her is boundless.
For several years, on this day, I’ve shared on social media some of my favourite things that Nina Said in appreciation and respect. I’ve collected them here in one place.
www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-nina...
For several years, on this day, I’ve shared on social media some of my favourite things that Nina Said in appreciation and respect. I’ve collected them here in one place.
www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-nina...
Essay: Nina Said
Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
www.feministgiant.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In a 1999 episode of BBC HARDtalk, Tim Sebastian asked Nina Simone “So you sing from anger?” Nina said “I sing from intelligence.”
The BBC has a dedicated small boats correspondent called Simon Jones. Can almost hear him drooling over the numbers.
The BBC has cancelled Hardtalk and Dateline London, two intelligent programmes that analyse world politics.
That's not by chance.
The BBC has cancelled Hardtalk and Dateline London, two intelligent programmes that analyse world politics.
That's not by chance.
September 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The BBC has a dedicated small boats correspondent called Simon Jones. Can almost hear him drooling over the numbers.
The BBC has cancelled Hardtalk and Dateline London, two intelligent programmes that analyse world politics.
That's not by chance.
The BBC has cancelled Hardtalk and Dateline London, two intelligent programmes that analyse world politics.
That's not by chance.
It's almost criminal to see cheap as chips but excellent BBC News programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk binned but trivial nonsense like #bbcLauraK still in the schedule.
November 17, 2024 at 9:22 AM
It's almost criminal to see cheap as chips but excellent BBC News programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk binned but trivial nonsense like #bbcLauraK still in the schedule.
Also, literally nothing in the charter forces the BBC to prioritise Newscast over HardTalk.
June 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Also, literally nothing in the charter forces the BBC to prioritise Newscast over HardTalk.
Ending Dateline London, Hardtalk, the toe curlingly bad #r4today, the dreadful #BBCLauraK and #bbcaq, the deification of Farage...
Bit of a theme developing here.
Bit of a theme developing here.
The BBC has decided not to send its flagship Politics Live programme to party conferences this year, PolHome understands
An ex-culture secretary said it was a "further erosion" of the BBC's political coverage, and called for a rethink
@adampayne26.bsky.social & @siennarodgers.bsky.social report
An ex-culture secretary said it was a "further erosion" of the BBC's political coverage, and called for a rethink
@adampayne26.bsky.social & @siennarodgers.bsky.social report
BBC Politics Live Will Not Go To Party Conferences This Year
The BBC has decided to stop its flagship Politics Live programme from going to party conferences this year, in a move that has disappointed some BB...
www.politicshome.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ending Dateline London, Hardtalk, the toe curlingly bad #r4today, the dreadful #BBCLauraK and #bbcaq, the deification of Farage...
Bit of a theme developing here.
Bit of a theme developing here.
Stephen Sackur’s BBC HARDtalk interview with the late Jane Goodall.
RIP.
RIP.
Dr Jane Goodall – Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute – BBC HARDtalk
YouTube video by BBC HARDtalk
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Stephen Sackur’s BBC HARDtalk interview with the late Jane Goodall.
RIP.
RIP.
Right?
She had absolutely, positively ZERO Fucks to give
She had absolutely, positively ZERO Fucks to give
Nina Simone on BBC HARDtalk, 1999
YouTube video by BBC HARDtalk
youtu.be
June 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Right?
She had absolutely, positively ZERO Fucks to give
She had absolutely, positively ZERO Fucks to give
Aquarian Foundation – Hardtalk (2013)
vimeo.com/61954743
vimeo.com/61954743
January 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Aquarian Foundation – Hardtalk (2013)
vimeo.com/61954743
vimeo.com/61954743
Putin is 'rebuilding Russian empire' says Senator McCain - BBC HARDtalk
BBC HARDtalk
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youtu.be/HLAzeHnNgR8
BBC HARDtalk
252K subscribers
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youtu.be/HLAzeHnNgR8
Putin is 'rebuilding Russian empire' says Senator McCain - BBC HARDtalk
YouTube video by BBC HARDtalk
youtu.be
September 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Putin is 'rebuilding Russian empire' says Senator McCain - BBC HARDtalk
BBC HARDtalk
252K subscribers
@themomentwithkaty.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @jenpsaki.bsky.social @barackobama.bsky.social @judgeluttig.bsky.social
youtu.be/HLAzeHnNgR8
BBC HARDtalk
252K subscribers
@themomentwithkaty.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @jenpsaki.bsky.social @barackobama.bsky.social @judgeluttig.bsky.social
youtu.be/HLAzeHnNgR8
Here ya go. The HARDTalk interview the (doctored, admittedly) screenshot above is from:
Alan Moore HARDtalk interview
YouTube video by rickdickboy
www.youtube.com
July 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Here ya go. The HARDTalk interview the (doctored, admittedly) screenshot above is from:
I spoke to Stephen Sackur on BBC HardTalk about all things British Empire
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC News - HARDtalk, Sathnam Sanghera, Author and Journalist, Sathnam Sanghera: The culture war is over
Writer Sathnam Sanghera: The culture war is over
www.bbc.co.uk
March 10, 2024 at 7:57 AM
I spoke to Stephen Sackur on BBC HardTalk about all things British Empire
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
I like Lisa Nandy but what does she actually do all day?
GB News drives a coach and horses through broadcasting rules and is a wing of Reform, the BBC News political coverage is woeful, cheap as chips programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk are ditched, Today is dreadful, Radio 3 etc etc
GB News drives a coach and horses through broadcasting rules and is a wing of Reform, the BBC News political coverage is woeful, cheap as chips programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk are ditched, Today is dreadful, Radio 3 etc etc
March 19, 2026 at 9:59 AM
I like Lisa Nandy but what does she actually do all day?
GB News drives a coach and horses through broadcasting rules and is a wing of Reform, the BBC News political coverage is woeful, cheap as chips programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk are ditched, Today is dreadful, Radio 3 etc etc
GB News drives a coach and horses through broadcasting rules and is a wing of Reform, the BBC News political coverage is woeful, cheap as chips programmes like Dateline London and Hardtalk are ditched, Today is dreadful, Radio 3 etc etc
Bring back Dateline London and Hardtalk. Cheap as chips TV but quality.
BREAKING – BBC CUTS:
Radio 4 to end The World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show and Crossing Continents next year.
Newshour will replace The World Tonight on Radio 4 and World Service.
Radio 4 to end The World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show and Crossing Continents next year.
Newshour will replace The World Tonight on Radio 4 and World Service.
June 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Bring back Dateline London and Hardtalk. Cheap as chips TV but quality.
Has any American reporters ever watched Hardtalk on the BBC? They could learn something.
March 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Has any American reporters ever watched Hardtalk on the BBC? They could learn something.