Schedules

Book TV Schedule, on C-SPAN 2.

This Sunday Q&A (8:00 p.m. and again 11:00) on C-SPAN 1 features Michael Steele, the Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland.

At After Words on BookTV (Sunday at 6 & 9)

William Hague, member of Britain’s Parliament and former Leader of the Conservative Party discusses his first book titled, “William Pitt the Younger.” It’s the biography of the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. Mr. Hague is interviewed by Martin Turner, Washington Bureau Chief for the BBC.

BookTV highlights (at 7:00 Saturday evening) a “State of Science Journalism” panel, with Nick Gillespie, Sally Satel, Ronald Bailey and Chris Mooney.

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This Sunday Q&A (8:00 p.m. and again 11:00) on C-SPAN 1 features Mel Watt, Chair of the Black Caucus and representative from N. Carolina.

On CSPAN 2 BookTV goes to a 3-day week-end, celebrating President’s Day. Appropriately, on After Words

Doug Wead, former special assistant to President George H.W. Bush discusses his book: The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of our Nation’s Leaders. He is interviewed by historian & author Harold Gullan.

Saturday night at midnight last week’s After Words, an interview of Natan Sharansky by Tom Gjelten will be rerun. While it does not have Buchanan providing a foil (as Jonathan pointed out in his post), this hour, too, is both interesting and inspiring. Following is Jared Diamond, who is a good deal less optimistic about the human spirit in his Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Paired last week, this time they are separated; still, Michael Crichton offers a counter argument Sunday morning (10:45) with his State of Fear.

BookTV schedule.

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C-Span this weekend features Lamb’s Q&A with Russ Feingold (8:00 & 11:00 p.m. Sunday, C-Span 1).

C-Span 2’s “In-Depth” (3 hour phone-in) will be with Charles Murray (of Bell Curve and What It Means to be a Libertarian). The original (with call ins) begins at noon; it is repeated at midnight. His five years in Thailand (Peace Corps and USAID) from 1965-70 should also come up.

The interviewer on the relatively new “After Words” is Rep. Harold Ford (Tennessee), who discusses with Essie May Washington-Williams her book, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. This will run at 6 & 9 Sunday evening.

Check out the full week-end schedule for C-Span 1 and Book TV.

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Brian Lamb, replacing BookNotes with his patented interview technique on Q&A scores this week-end: an interview with Bush (8:00-9:00, repeated 11-12 both Sunday evening – E.S.T.). The transcripts and streamed viewing are up. The interview is 23 minutes long and followed by roundtable with Richard Norton Smith and Doug Brinkley.

That interview is on C-Span I; it is preceded on C-Span 2 by BookTV’s new program, Afterwards precedes this one; for those of you who haven’t caught this new program, an author is interviewed by someone with a different (often opposing) perspective. Of course, this is not the usual neutral take of C-Span (but, then, the interviewers aren’t c-span employees, either). This week Dana Priest (of the Washington Post) will interview Melissa Boyle Mahle a former US intelligence officer, about her new memoir, Denial and Deception: An Insiders View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11.