Later today, Swedish television rebroadcasts Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture from 2005.
This man in a wheelchair, alone in a studio with a blanket over his legs, weakened by cancer, was the strongest experience I’ve ever had in front of a TV set, when it was first aired in 2005.
I was watching football, an exciting and important game in Champions League, I believe it was. In the intermission I zapped around a bit, and was immediately caught by the very strong impression Pinter conveyed through the TV screen. I never returned to the second half of the game. Instead, I listened to this lone, frail man, speaking into the camera for 45 minutes.
The lecture can be seen here, bear in mind that it was performed in 2005, during the Iraq war, under Bush and Blair:
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