Preview: Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens

"Never be afraid of stridency"
Richard Dawkins: One of my main beefs with religion is the way they label children as a "Catholic child" or a "Muslim child". I've become a bit of a bore about it.
Christopher Hitchens: You must never be afraid of that charge, any more than stridency.

Read more (New Statesman)

New Statesman Christmas Issue

"Richard Dawkins has contributed an essay, written the New Statesman leader column, and travelled to Texas to conduct an exclusive interview with the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. They discuss religious fundamentalism, US politics, Tony Blair, abortion and Christmas."

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/12/christmas-issue-dawkins

Hitch In Confidence

Hitchens interviewed by Laurie Taylor. Aired April 14, 2011, Sky Arts 1.

In Confidence: Peter and Christopher Hitchens, Sky Arts 1, review. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8451761/In-Confidence-Peter-and-Christopher-Hitchens-Sky-Arts-1-review.html

Christopher Hitchens: most provocative quotes

The Telegraph

In Confidence: Peter and Christopher Hitchens airs on Sky Arts 1/SAHD on Thursday at 10.00pm and 11.00pm.

"The writer, polemicist and devout atheist Christopher Hitchens is known for his confrontational style of debate. Here we list some of his more controversial outbursts."

Plus related articles.. (US 'nasty and boring, 'I told my brother he was adopted'..)

Read More (telegraph.co.uk)

Christopher and Peter In Confidence

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.

Godless in Tumourville: Christopher Hitchens interview

By Mick Brown, 25 Mar 2011

"Writing in his memoirs, Hitch-22, of the numerous perils that he has faced as a reporter around the globe in places as various as Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and Beirut, Christopher Hitchens reflects that a little danger or discomfort can be a salutary thing: 'I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.’

 Read More (The Telegraph)

Outspoken and outrageous: Christopher Hitchens

(CBS News) Steve Kroft profiles Vanity Fair columnist, author and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens, for whom nothing is off-limits when making his wry and often outrageous observations, including the cancer he is suffering from.

For main segment and web extras:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/06/60minutes/main20038931.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel

Hitchens feared cancer could stop his writing

The interview will be broadcasted on "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 6 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/04/60minutes/main20038931.shtml

Q&A with Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens talks to Brian Lamb about his cancer, treatments, Tony Blair, Pakistan, religion, Kissinger..


Transcript:
http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1322

The Hitch on Death

By John Rentoul

Christopher Hitchens, brooding on “how much faster I’m dying than anyone else” is interviewed by Oliver Kamm in today’s Times (pay wall).

Read More (independent.co.uk)

Author Christopher Hitchens in conversation

On his Jewish grandmother, his atheism, his writing—and facing his own mortality
by Noah Richler

"I don’t think someone is religious unless they have faith in what St. Paul calls the evidence of things not seen—in other words, the supernatural or supervising deity, presence, force who requires and expects certain kinds of propitiation. If that’s not in your mind, then I don’t think you’re really a religious person at all."

Read More (macleans.ca)

AT LARGE: A Conversation With Christopher Hitchens

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty writer James Kirchick recently interviewed Hitchens at his home in Washington about his left-wing revolutionary past, his views on America, Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's Islamist turn, Putin's Russia, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sampled his views on a variety of international figures.


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BBC Newsnight Special: Christopher Hitchens

CH interviewed in his home in Washington D.C by Jeremy Paxman. Broadcasted on Nov 29, 2010.





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BBC Newsnight: Christopher Hitchens (Preview)

Jeremy Paxman interviews Christopher Hitchens in Washington D.C. Full interview on BBC2, Nov 29, 7.30pm. 

Paxman Meets Hitchens: A Newsnight Special

UPDATE Watch two minute clip from the interview. More tonight Nov 26, 10.30pm. Full interview Nov 29, 7.30pm.


Monday Nov 29, 19:30 on BBC Two (England, Scotland, Wales only)


In a wide-ranging special interview, Jeremy Paxman talks to Christopher Hitchens about his cancer diagnosis, his life, his politics and his writing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wkrbk

CH: 'You have to choose your future regrets'

By Andrew Anthony


In June Christopher Hitchens, the hard-drinking polemicist and atheist, met his toughest opponent yet when he was diagnosed with cancer. The question on many lips was: would his illness alter his beliefs – on Iraq, on Islam, on God? At home in Washington, with a large glass of Johnnie Walker to hand, he responds with characteristic combativeness.


Read Andrew's interview with CH here (guardian.co.uk)

'My life is my writing ... my children come later'

Sonia Verma, Globe and Mail. Published October 22, 2010.

“I'd have to say, not to be a hypocrite, that my life is my writing before it's anything. Because that's who I am and my children come later and that's what they've had to put up with,” he says. Read interview here.