The Leonard Lopate Show.

June 4, 2010. Full interview: 35 min.

Hitchens at New York Public Library.

June 4, 2010. Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Paul Holdengraber. Play All 9 Videos

What are you reading Christopher Hitchens?

From Book TV: http://www.youtube.com/user/BookTV

Hitchens on Night Waves.

June 1, 2010. Anne McElvoy interviews Christopher Hitchens on BBC Radio 3. Play 2 Videos.

Christopher Hitchens on BBC World News.

June 1, 2010. Christopher Hitchens interviewed on BBC on his memoir Hitch-22.

Front Row: Christopher Hitchens.

June 1, 2010. John Wilson interviews Christopher Hitchens on BBC Radio 4.

The Guardian Hay Festival 2010.

May 2010. Christopher Hitchens interviewed at Hay Festival 2010 about his memoir Hitch-22. This post is the CH part. Listen/Download the entire podcast (with Pervez Musharraf, Bill Bryson) MP3 here.

Sunday Live with Adam Boulton.

May 2010. From the Hay Literary Festival Adam Boulton discusses the future for Afghanistan with Rory Stewart MP, Christopher Hitchens and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Daily Hitchens and YouTube.

I've created another YT channel. When I posted my thoughts on not starting a new Hitchens YT channel, I was thinking of the massive work it would take to upload all the old videos to new one. I'm not going to do that. For the time being I'm leaving the DHYT channel as it is and use this new one.

I'll post a YT bulletin to all subscribers to switch over to DailyHitchens22 http://www.youtube.com/user/DailyHitchens22

We all know YT's policy's can be a bitch but they've got the advantage. It's too big and popular to ignore if one wants to promote videos and blogs.

I'm not sure about future formats or platforms but for now it's day by day, week by week.

Vatican reaches out to atheists - but not to Dawkins or Hitchens.

The Vatican is planning a new initiative to reach out to atheists and agnostics in an attempt to improve the church's relationship with non-believers. Pope Benedict XVI has ordered officials to create a new foundation where atheists will be encouraged to meet and debate with some of the Catholic Church's top theologians. Read the article here.

The way I see it, they've watched the Intelligence square debate from last year and are scared shitless of Hitchens (and Dawkins). In an interview Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi says "Such atheists only view the truth with "irony and sarcasm" and tend to "read religious texts like fundamentalists".

Don't know whether to laugh or cry? I think I'll do the crying bit first and then have a good laugh.

The Satanic Verses Affair. (1989)

One week after the fatwa on Salman Rushdie was issued in 1989, Hitchens appeared on C-SPAN to discuss The Satanic Verses and freedom of speech. Unfortunately very poor audio. Part 1 of 4 Related video: "Christopher Hitchens on Salman Rushdie's fatwa, BBC, Feb 12" in which he mentions the pipe bomb that didn't go off in Cody's bookstore while he (instead of Salman) was reading from The Satanic Verses.

Late Night Live: Christopher Hitchens

May 27, 2010. Phillip Adams interviews Christopher Hitchens on Late Night Live. They talk Iraq, Hitch-22, 9/11, The Catholic Church, religion, American politics, Obama, atheism...

Listen/Download here. 53 min.

Mornings with Alex Sloan: Christopher Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens talks to Alex Sloan about his memoir Hitch-22 on 666 ABC Canberra while in Australia for the Sydney Writers Festival.

Listen/Download here.

24 min.

Programmatic specificity we can believe in.

Sydney Writers' Festival, May 2010. Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay.

Hosted by Neil James of the Plain English Foundation. Christopher Hitchens, Annabel Crabb and Nathan Rees discuss the varying standards of political rhetoric and the abusers of the English language. Q&A at the end.

Watch/Download (Flash video-MP3 Audio) here.

2 parts (27 min. + 28 min.)