The BBC are currently asking viewers of HARDtalk to submit questions to Noam Chomsky for a show to be broadcast on Thursday 29th October. Two questions will be chosen for broadcast. They must be grabbing their chance while he’s in London on the same day to talk on Human Rights in the 21st Century at the LSE.
I quite like HARDtalk because they do generally probe political figures harder than most mainstream current affairs programs. You can of course always e-mail Chomsky directly too as apparently he responds in person and usually pretty quickly but if you’d like to see Tim Sebastian do the probing for you, then you can do so here.
One thing I’d definitely like to ask him is where the hell he finds the time to lecture in linguistics, write countless books on the subject as well as engage in political analysis, writing, speaking events and interviews like the one on HARDtalk. And all at the ripe old age of 80. The man is a phenomenon.
The last time he was on HARDtalk can be seen here by the way although the image quality isn’t great:
Just watched Stephen trying his predictable methods of tripping up his guests and was amused to see Noam Chomsky out match him every step of the way.
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Thanks for reminding me Glen
I haven’t see it yet but this excerpt looks good:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8339487.stm
A note for viewers outside the UK – you can use LiveStation to watch the interview by downloading and installing it:
http://www.livestation.com/
Select the BBC World News channel and the interview will be shown at: 1430, 1830 and 2130 GMT today.
The full audio of the interview can now listened to or downloaded here:
http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=187901&code=14v2
And the video is here:
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