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In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.

In-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about the highs and lows in their lives.

HARDtalk: Review of the Year

21/12/2009

Review of the Year

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Review of the Year

The best interviews of 2009, featuring politicians, intellectuals, scientists and artists.

Special edition featuring the best interviews of 2009, featuring politicians, intellectuals and artists, and subjects such as climate change, the global financial crisis and Obama.

In a special edition, the programme turns back the clock to sample the stand-out interviews of 2009.

A broad range of topics were covered, but there was one issue which dominated: climate change. HARDtalk travelled to Greenland to see whether the planet's climate is headed in a dangerous direction.

Other highlights include veteran American politicians like James Clyburn and Maxine Waters, and controversial intellectual Noam Chomsky on the impact of President Obama's first year in office.

The programme was also on Wall Street to mark the first anniversary of the global financial crisis, visited the studio of world-renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor, and talked to fashion and punk icon Vivienne Westwood.

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