Playwright HAROLD PINTER's Nobel Prize acceptance speech of 2005 is a stunning condemnation of U.S. wars, lies, and imperialism since 1945. Ten years on, this remains a powerful and moving indictment of U.S. foreign policy.
Part 2 is especially relevant to the present day. Pinter focuses on official hypocrisy, Guantanamo, U.S. nuclear weapons, the bombing of civilians, and the duties of citizens.
Plus brief commentary by KD and a song by Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman.
Thanks to the Nobel Prize Committee (www.nobelprize.org) for the video of Pinters address. I have cut approximately six minutes from near the beginning of the speech (a close analysis of certain parts of some Pinter plays) and shortened several long pauses. The speech is otherwise complete.
I first learned of Pinters speech, not long after it was delivered, through Maria Gilardins fine "TUC Radio" program. Maria condensed Pinters 46-minute speech to around 25 minutes. New World Notess condensation of the speech includes an additional 15 minutes of Pinter.
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "suspicious gaze") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
2015 marks the 10th anniversary of Pinter's Nobel speech and the 85th anniversary of his birth (in October 10, 1930, in Hackney, London, UK). He died in 2008.
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
You can download this installment of New World Notes--in either MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). Program information and download links on that site can be found here: https://archive.org/details/NewWorldNotes396-PinterOnTruthLiesAndWarPart2
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