The New Statesman
•68% Informative
HARDtalk is being axed as the BBC seeks a net reduction of 130 news jobs in a 24 m cost-cutting drive.
It is produced by a team of barely half a dozen people on a shoestring budget of scarcely 1 m a year.
Sackur and his predecessor Tim Sebastian have interviewed not just Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela , but a slew of unsavoury figures.
VR Score
66
Informative language
63
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14
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English
Language complexity
50
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External references
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Source diversity
3
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