Stephen Sackur is the presenter of BBC HARDTalk - the most popular news interview programme in the world, with 70 million viewers. Before this, he was an award-winning BBC foreign correspondent covering landmark global events such as 9/11, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the civil war in Sri Lanka. In this in-depth interview, he takes us behind the scenes on the \u201ccrackling tension\u201d in the HARDTalk studio; reflects on some of his career highlights, from the first ever on-screen interview with Hugo Ch\xe1vez, to getting Dr Anthony Fauci\u2019s take on America\u2019s handling of the pandemic; and defends the \u201cdying art\u201d of the long-form interview, which remains \u201chugely important and very compelling.\u201d\xa0 \xa0