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Discussion: February 7th, 2012
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Debate: February 27th, 2012
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: February 29th, 2012
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Author, journalist, and literary critic
Writer, broadcaster, polemicist and literary critic, Christopher Hitchens' career spanned 40 years. As well as a great writer he was one of his generation's greatest public speakers and was a staple of talk shows and on the lecture circuit. In 2005 he was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a poll organised by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine. His bestselling books included God is not Great (2007) and the memoir Hitch 22 (2010). He was an outspoken atheist and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he worked for the Times Higher Education Supplement before moving to The New Statesman. He then emigrated to America, where he worked for The Nation. He wrote for a number of other publications, including Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic.
Among Hitchens' other books are Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (2005), and Why Orwell Matters (2002). He received the 1991 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the 2007 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary for his work at Vanity Fair.
In June 2010 he was diagnosed with stage 4 oesophageal cancer and died on December 16th 2011.
IQ² remembers Christopher Hitchens
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19 Oct 2009
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19 Oct 2009
1 hr 58 min
27 Mar 2007
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01 Feb 2007
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28 Jul 2009
35 min 55 sec
09 Jul 2008
39 min 55 sec
23 Aug 2007
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01 Feb 2007
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“What hope for the economy?”, featuring Anatole Kaletsky and Gideon Rachman, chaired by Evan Davis, 7th Feb 2012
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"The best chance for peace between Israel and Palestine is for Uncle Sam to butt out”, featuring William Sieghart, 27th Feb 2012
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Rising star historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala on the origins of sex and how the permissive society arrived in Western Europe, 15th Feb
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