The Hitchenses on BBC Question Time

21 June 2007

I try to watch Question Time at least once a week, on a slow news day if possible: one is more likely to get a wider range of topics discussed, and hopefully less baseless vitriol. However, tonight’s broadcast should be quite interesting.

Not only is Christopher Hitchens a member of the panel with catholic peer Shirley Williams, he’s also going to be up there with his erstwhile antagonist, then friend, now antagonist again, brother Peter Hitchens, who called God is not Great wrong.

Personally I know almost next to nothing about P Hitchens, apart from a news article that I recently read playing the two brothers off against each other after a recent burying, and then even more recent exhumation, of their familial hatchet. Apparently he’s a columnist for The Mail on Sunday (The Mail?!) so I can’t for one moment expect him to be as erudite or lucid as his brother. This probably explains why I know bugger all about him.

As I said, this should indeed make for an interesting show.

Question Time, BBC1, 21 June 2007, 10.35pm (BST)

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tobe38 on June 21st, 2007 9:19 pm

Thanks! Will watch this.
nullifidian on June 21st, 2007 9:31 pm

Oddly enough, there’s a Keith Allen show on C4 at 10.30 with him visiting Westboro Bastard Church. It never rains, eh?
tobe38 on June 21st, 2007 9:37 pm

FFS! If only I still had Sky+.
nullifidian on June 21st, 2007 9:39 pm

I have Smellyvest/Mergin’Media, and am hoping they’ll have the BBC1 show on replay. I’m sure some enterprising soul will oblige by putting one or both on YouTube, etc.
Michael on June 21st, 2007 10:56 pm

I turned off my Telewest subscription and moved to the darkside and got Sky + a few weeks ago. I did it mainly so I could watch the football in peace and the wife could record CSI, Criminal Minds, LA Law, 24, Prison Break and all the other stuff that rudely interrupts my sports viewing but it does come in handy sometimes. I have both the Keith Allen docu and QT recorded and am watching QT now. Very good!
nullifidian on June 21st, 2007 11:00 pm

I’m almost kind of thinking about defecting to Sky, but for two reasons: Murdoch and BT. Saying that, 24 could almost cancel out BT.

Perhaps I should get the V+ service… although I’m not keen on the Â£75 installation charge.
Michael on June 21st, 2007 11:04 pm

Well here’s a tip. I played Sky and Virgin off against each other. Even if you’re staying with Virgin, tell them you’re moving. They were going to give me V+ for free and the whole phone, internet and TV package for Â£40 a month.

In the end, I moved to Sky and got the full TV package for Â£40 and Sky + (and installation) for free. They’re fighting so hard that they’re willing to give silly discounts. In fact, Virgin are hemorrhaging customers and almost giving the stuff away for free. In the end I stayed with Virgin internet and got a discount on that too.
Michael on June 21st, 2007 11:07 pm

BTW, QT is already online to view at http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4090000/newsid_4097900/4097948.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm
nullifidian on June 21st, 2007 11:11 pm

That’s certainly a rather devious idea. To be honest, I’d rather stay with Virgin (I still think of them as Telewest) so any kind of discount would be a boon.

/me ponders…
Michael on June 21st, 2007 11:17 pm

No, not devious, just playing fair! :) For the past 18 months I’ve been paying a huge amount for TV, internet and phone (about Â£100pm) and it actually annoyed me that when I told them I was leaving that they offered me a 50% discount. I left them on that basis. I thought that if they are willing to offer me that now, they should have been more customer centric in the first place.
nullifidian on June 22nd, 2007 12:28 pm

I meant devious as in cunning, rather than the baser (and less accurate) sense of deceitful. :-)

I’ll see what I can wangle out of them this weekend.