UK Foreign Secretary - Jeremy Hunt
The Interview
BBC
4.3 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Britain’s top diplomat, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, is at the end of a five-nation tour of Africa aimed at persuading the continent and the wider world that post-Brexit Britain can and will play a pivotal global role. So HARDtalk has come to Nairobi to talk to Mr Hunt at the end of his latest road trip. If and when the current Brexit chaos comes to an end, how will Britain stack up as a source of global power and influence?
Image: Jeremy Hunt (Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We choose to go to the moon. |
| 0:02.0 | It was one of the defining moments of the 20th century. |
| 0:05.1 | But it almost didn't happen. |
| 0:08.7 | It's just crazy to try to do something as dangerous as that around the moon. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Kevin Fong, and in a brand new podcast from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:16.7 | I'll be bringing you the definitive story of the Apollo Moon landings. |
| 0:20.7 | This task had never been done, but they weren't afraid of it. |
| 0:24.5 | Told by the people who were there. |
| 0:26.4 | There were no rules. |
| 0:27.7 | There was no field for what we did. |
| 0:29.8 | Search for 13 minutes to the moon, wherever you found this podcast to hear our audio countdown |
| 0:35.1 | and be ready for the first episode. |
| 0:37.4 | If you miss fire, you may miss the Earth. |
| 0:40.1 | Thirteen minutes to the moon, launching on May the 13th. |
| 0:43.9 | We're listening to a podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:50.2 | This is Hard Talk with me, Stephen Sacker. |
| 0:53.1 | Thanks for downloading this edition of the program. |
| 0:55.8 | I do hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:57.4 | Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service, with me, Stephen Saker. |
| 1:01.8 | Today I'm in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, is the last leg of a whistle-stop tour of Africa, |
| 1:08.0 | undertaken by my guest today, Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. His mission |
| 1:13.5 | has been one of persuasion to persuade leaders in five of Africa's fastest growing economies |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.