Al-Jazeera interviews Harold Pinter Part 2

On its second day of operation, Al-Jazeera English's Riz Khan interviews 2005 Nobel Literature laureate Harold Pinter. This is Part 2.

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[gwood3]

There's a part 1 to this interview. Unfortunately every time I try to upload it YouTube rejects it as a duplication.

:-(

[Trishachat]

Harold Pinter is a noble and brilliant genous who bravely exposed the filthy imperial, mass-murdering activities of the Bushco gang, who revolting British collaborator, Blair the poodle, is, amazingly in a world of cruel ironies, now running around as some kind of "peace" ambassador for the U.N.!

Pinter helps keep the hope for civilization alive in a world infested with such abysmal evil as reresented by immoral, cowardly killers as the chimp and the poodle.

[Leibo07]

The greatest respect

for the artist

and the activist

R I P

[rey5000]

couldn't the interviewer have been setting pinter up for that response? that art and political issues should go hand in hand and are in fact unavoidable, rather than the opinion that many people hold that art should be purely aesthetic? they do speak of america's alliance with israel in an extremely critical way

[EllyMcCormack]

@rey5000 I'll give you an example, one of the interviewer's questions was whether Harold Pinter's activism will taint the purity of his work. Like there is something dirtying about standing up for human rights, standing up against atrocities committed on our behalf. Like it dirties your shirt & hands more than it does for the men who commit the war crimes themselves. And this is from Al Jazeera. It shocked me. I thought they loved anything remotely anti-america, regardless of the cause.

[rey5000]

@EllyMcCormack i know you wrote this comment a long time ago, but i'd like to ask how you came to that conclusion from watching this interview?

[EllyMcCormack]

Annoying interviewer who frankly couldn't give a damn about the lives that have been lost in the conflicts in the middle east. He just keeps cutting across a man who speaks about the plight of others whilst suffering from throat cancer. Wears his lovely suit with his silk hankie, he doesn't give a shit at all if children have no legs in Gaza.

[mixailooo]

Харолд Пинтер је велики чове, пријатељ истине и правде. У име Србије и србског народа Хвала му, и Слава му!

[randomdave30]

One for the Road is brilliant and The Dumb Waiter

A Slight Ache is chilling

[VoxJoxx]

Harold Pinter recommended AJ as a truth channel, i had no idea. Is this true?

[kfarm2001]

Truth will not be able to hide from history. Thank you Harold and may many others follow your example.

[googerblah]

One last thing: I've studied theatre for a majority of my life, and I have a deep respect for all three of the playwrights you mentioned. Pinter, however, is none of them, nor was he meant to be them. He didn't even try to be them. As long as you concentrate on how Pinter is not like Ibsen, you will never fully realise the various scope and uses possible with theatre.

Please don't be guilty of the myopia you've so erroneously ascribed to Pinter.