Sir Ian McKellen - Actor
'My campaigning is about allowing people to be themselves' - McKellen on gay rights
Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA - Allen Ault
Why is a former head of state-sanctioned executions now an opponent of the death penalty?
South African Anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada
After 26 years in jail the veteran anti-apartheid activist had no time for bitterness
Ben Ferencz, Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials
What does the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials think they achieved?
Deputy Leader of the Turkey's Republican People's Party - Selin Sayek Böke
Does Turkey's main opposition party have a credible alternative vision for the country?
Joshua Wong, Secretary General of Demosisto political party, Hong Kong
HARDtalk speaks to Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong
Zimbabwe's Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi
Should 93 year old Robert Mugabe be standing for another Presidential term?
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice-Chairman of Open Russia
HARDtalk speaks to Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice chairman of the Open Russia group.
Former US Senator for Florida Bob Graham
Will the liberal politics espoused by the former senator ever be back in fashion?
Vice President of Zimbabwe (2004 – 2014) - Joice Mujuru
How tainted is Joice Mujuru by her long association with the ZANU-PF party?