Counterblast (1999)

Reading (TV)

Channel	BBC Two
Broadcast Date	4 May 1999
Broadcast time	19:30:00
Length (minutes)
Black and White	No
Series	Unknown
Episode
Broadcast Notes	Recorded on 29 April (Baker, p. 250)
Description	Programme description: The last in the series in which people express strongly held views. Against the War: Distinguished author Harold Pinter argues that Britain and Nato should not be fighting a war in the Balkans.
Language	English

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Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Contributor

Stuart Urban

Creative | Director

Debbie Christie

Production | Producer

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Resources

Lords Hansard report for 5 May 1999 (URL)

Type: Website

External Link: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo990505/text/90505-05.htm

At 7:16pm, Lord Newby made a disapproving reference to the previous evening's broadcast in the House of Lords during a debate on Public Service Broadcasting.

'Letter: Pinter strikes back', The Independent, 11 May 1999 (URL)

Type: Newspaper article

External Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/letter-pinter-strikes-back-1092814.html

In a letter to The Independent newspaper, Pinter responds to negative criticism of his choice of vocabulary in the Counterblast broadcast.

Letter to the Guardian, 8 April 1999 (URL)

Type: Newspaper article

External Link: http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/letter1.html

Published on his own website, Pinter wrote to the Guardian, Pinter pre-empts his Counterblast broadcast with criticism of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair's actions concerning Kosovo.

'We are bandits guilty of murder', Harold Pinter, The Telegraph, 2 May 1999 (Paper-based)

Type: Newspaper article

Sources

BBC Genome

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e5832f3d52e64bb49a6bc11761301a7b

URL

William Baker's A Harold Pinter Chronology

William Baker, A Harold Pinter Chronology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Academic book