HARDtalk, the long-running world affairs BBC News programme, will be axed in a move criticised by presenter Stephen Sackur as “depressing” for the future of in-depth interviews which hold politicians to account.
Sackur, 60, said he will leave the BBC after bosses confirmed the end of the programme, which first aired in 1997. It featured extended interviews with leading figures on the world stage, ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Emmanuel Macron.
HARDtalk is being axed as part of a new round of BBC News cuts which will see net job losses of 130. The cost reductions will result in “lower impact” stories being dropped and the merger of separate home and foreign news gathering teams into a single, “story-led” structure.
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