Black or White?

[TightEnd]

Dramatic stuff, and great TV, on Sky News earlier



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black

[jakally]

'I'm selling books.... I'm not here to enjoy your somewhat predictable questions.'.

I don't know much about this guy, but he is very watchable.
It mentions him being on HIGNFY. When is this aired?

[AndrewT]

Friday night.

He was also interviewed by Paxo on Newsnight.

[redarmi]

Loved the "whats your name again?".  Fantastic, I can only imagine how hilarious HIGNFY is going to be with him on it.

[smashedagain]

Loved the "whats your name again?".  Fantastic, I can only imagine how hilarious HIGNFY is going to be with him on it.

yes will watch it. Wife's a big fan but it don't normally float my boat.

[DaveShoelace]

I saw this as it aired not knowing anything about the man, I can't wait to see him on HIGNFY because I actually think he could flip the script and rip Merton and Hislop a new one.

[DaveShoelace]

Vicky Coren is on the same ep, deffo one for the sky plus button.

[Tal]

Cliffs: man gets out of prison. Denies doing crime he was convicted of.

Man angry to level you would find in a Kurt Russell film.

[Tal]

[ x ] Thought from title that this thread was about either chess or a Michael Jackson video. Disappointed.

"I'm not gonna spend my life being a colour"

[Waz1892]

Very entertaining!

[TightEnd]

Alexander Armstrong ‏@XanderArmstrong

Yes, Conrad Black is a guest on tonight's HIGNFY, so too is the utterly utterly wonderful @VictoriaCoren hope Connie let's her get a word in


Filmed tonight, on tomorrow 9pm with Armstrong the host


Should be a really good one

[Doobs]

Paxman interview

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20036674

and for the other side

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/why-conrad-black-blustering

Eventually, all his fellow directors realised that Black had lied to them about Hollinger's accounts and he had taken about $200m from the company. The US government prosecuted on 14 charges.

The trial was staggeringly fair. Hugely damning evidence against Black was excluded by the judge. Most remarkably, having endlessly pontificated how he intended to destroy the prosecutors, Black did not testify in his own defence. Instead he propelled his hapless secretary to testify and she was slaughtered by prosecutors.

The jury quickly found Black guilty of three counts of fraud and obstruction of justice, but then began five days of vituperative argument about whether Black's use of corporate money to pay for his honeymoon and a birthday party for his wife was criminal. On the remaining fraud and racketeering charges nine jurors believed he was crooked while three disagreed. The legacy of the blistering rows was their irreconcilable split – 9 to 3. So Black was acquitted of 10 charges.

But, as the trial judge and the subsequent appeal judges all said in open court, the evidence against Black was overwhelming. He was, the judges agreed, rightly found guilty by the jury of systematically looting Hollinger. So on appeal in Chicago his convictions were upheld.

[ripple11]

Great interviews 

HIGNFY.....going to unmissable.

[action man]

its such a shame christopher hitchens passed away, him v black would have been epic

[smashedagain]

Oh man forgot to sky+ hignfy. Anyone watched it?