Christopher and Peter In Confidence

April 6, 2011

SKY ARTS 1 / HD: THU 14 APR, 10PM

"Sky Arts is screening back-to-back interviews with the Hitchens brothers: writer Peter who's known for his conservative and pro-religious stance and writer Christopher who's liberal, left-wing and antitheist (look it up, we had to)."

http://tv.sky.com/peter-hitchens-in-confidence

http://video.sky.com/skyarts/related/24693/Christopher%20Hitchens:%20In%20Confidence

Before you ask, I don't know when these interviews were recorded. If somebody knows, please tell.

20 comments:

SWH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: 3rd, 4th and 5th parts now on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWfw8Nanlc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uuNXMRn8v8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlTsZtaOovA

I've put all the links in a new thread on the forum here.
SWH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Here's part 3 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWfw8Nanlc
SWH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Second part of six now on Youtube. Will do the rest tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deICEQIL8gs
John said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Peter Hitchens: Sunday 22nd August 2010 (University of Westminster tv studio, Harrow); Christopher Hitchens: Friday 10th December 2010 (his apartment in Washington DC)
nobuko t said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: I'd love to read Kissinger's and the Pope's obits as written
by Christopher Hitchens. I wish he'd write one anyway.
I'll take it out and read it when it happens.
Peter said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: The in confidence videos are being put up on youtube now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiWMrEEl9Y

Part 1

Part 2 is also up and the other ones should be on the way.
SWH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Hitch looked like hell but then the lighting looked poor and Laurie Taylor himself looked over 100. Not bad. No fireworks but a welcome change from the cut and paste Hitch interview we've become familiar with where he gets asked all the same questions and replies with his tired best of Hitch routine.

Will upload to Youtube ASAP.
SWH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: First part of 6 now on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiWMrEEl9Y
TAK said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Oh Lord, please don't let this light go out. Free Will demands that we have a voice like Mr Hitchens, even when that voice dismisses the religious conventions.
Artscieditor said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Even ill, HItchens is mesmerizing. I don't want to miss a word . . .

Does anyone know how the full interview can be viewed on Sky's (or other) internet site? I am only able to see the "video cut" which is maddeningly short. I tried locating this information on the Sky site and got nowhere. Somewhere, it's stated that viewers outside the UK and Ireland can view Sky videos (on demand) via the Internet but I'll be damned if I can figure out how. Any help will be appreciated.
Oscar West said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: christopher isnt looking too well sadly :(
Oscar West said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: christopher isnt looking too well sadly :(
Akarimi8436 said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Well you are correct his rhetoric is not at all like Bernie Sanders, however its well known that Marxists have a deep rooted dislike for liberals who they see as being moral compromisers, for example Slavoj Zizek (a famous Marxist) has spent his life attacking liberals and has stated that the anti-war movement (while being against the war in Iraq himself) is "intellectually lazy"
Alex said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: It is interesting how Hitchens brothers resemble each other… appearance, language, intonation… however often with the opposite convictions.
SWH said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: From the apparent order, it's André Previn tonight, then Peter H next Thuursday, then Hitch either immediately after or the following week.
Lucy Potts said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: I don't like the wording terminally-ill, that suggests not an iota of hope. I hope we are not at that stage yet.
1984 said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Yeah, that is kind of odd. Even though Hitch says that he still very much thinks like a marxist the rhetoric is far away from someone like Bernie Sanders and Cornel West.
Floris said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Liberal, ha!
Monkey33 said... May 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM: Christopher's part is here

http://video.sky.com/skyarts/related/24693/Christopher%20Hitchens:%20In%20Confidence
bigjohn756 said... May 11, 2011 at 9:40 PM: Where can we find Peter Hitchen's part in this?

Books by Hitchens

2012 Mortality. Twelve Books
2011 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve.
2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism. Da Capo Press
2010 Hitch-22: A Memoir . Twelve/Hachette Book Group.
2007 god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books
2007 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer. Perseus Publishing
2006 Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography. Books That Shook the World/Atlantic Books
2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers
2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books
2003 A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Plume Books
2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books (US)/UK edition as Orwell's Victory, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press.
2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso.
2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books.
2000 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso.
1999 No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Verso.
1997 Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger. Verso
1997 The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (UK) Verso.
1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Verso.
1993 For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports. Verso,
1990 The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish. Chatto & Windus
1990 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
1988 Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. Hill and Wang (US)/Chatto and Windus (UK).
1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988)
1984 Cyprus. Quartet.

As co-author or co-editor

2011 Hitchens vs. Blair: Be it resolved that religion is a force of good in the world. House of Anansi Press
2010 The Best American Essays 2010. Mariner Books
2008 Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate (co-author, with Douglas Wilson). Canon Press
2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman). New York University Press.
2002 Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (co-editor, with Christopher Caldwell)
1994 When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi). Pantheon Books
1994 International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-1995 (with Adam Bartos). Verso
1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said). Verso
1981 Inequalities in Zimbabwe (with David Stephen).Minority Rights Group
1976 Callaghan, The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner). Cassell

As contributor

2010 The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969. Christopher Isherwood. HarperCollins.
2010 Civilization and Its Discontents. Edited by James Strachey. W.W. Norton & Company
2010 New Threats to Freedom. Edited by Adam Bellow. Templeton Press.
2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press
2003 Animal Farm and 1984. George Orwell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Introduction by CH.
2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio
2000 Safe Area Gorazde, Fantagraphics
1998 After Diana: Irreverent Elegies. Mandy Merck. Verso

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