Main content

US Politician - Bernie Sanders

Did Bernie Sanders plant the seeds of a political revolution in the United States? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to the longest serving independent in US congressional history.

Stephen Sackur is at the 2017 Hay Literary Festival to speak to the US Senator Bernie Sanders - the longest serving independent in US congressional history. He was credited with injecting passion and belief into the race for 2016’s Democratic presidential nomination - a race that was eventually won by Hillary Clinton. But did he plant the seeds of a political revolution in the United States?

(Photo: Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) react during a news conference on release of the president"s FY2018 budget proposal, 2017. Yuri Gripas /Reuters)

Available now

23 minutes

Last on

Mon 5 Jun 201719:06GMT
BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa

More episodes

Previous

Head of UN Mission in South Sudan - David Shearer

Next

Civil Rights Activist - Rachel Dolezal

See all episodes from The Interview

Broadcasts

  • Mon 5 Jun 201701:06GMT
    BBC World Service except News Internet
  • Mon 5 Jun 201706:06GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia, East and Southern Africa & East Asia only
  • Mon 5 Jun 201707:06GMT
    BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East
  • Mon 5 Jun 201713:06GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia
  • Mon 5 Jun 201714:06GMT
    BBC World Service except Australasia & News Internet
  • Mon 5 Jun 201719:06GMT
    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa

Podcast

  • The Interview

    Conversations with people shaping our world. The best interviews from the BBC