Hell's Angel (TV programme)

Hell's Angel
Written byChristopher Hitchens,
Tariq Ali
Directed byJenny Morgan
Narrated byChristopher Hitchens
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerTariq Ali
Running time24 minutes
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release8 November 1994 (1994-11-08)
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Hell's Angel is a television documentary programme criticising Mother Teresa which premiered in the UK on Channel 4's Without Walls arts strand on 8 November 1994. It was hosted by Christopher Hitchens, directed by Jenny Morgan, and produced by journalist Tariq Ali. Hitchens and Ali co-wrote the programme's script.[1][2][3]: 140  Hitchens originally titled the documentary Sacred Cow, but the film's backers instead chose Hell's Angel as the title.[4][5][6]

A precursor to Hitchens' book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995), the film argues that Mother Teresa urged the poor to accept their circumstances as their destiny and for the poor and sick in particular to submit to the substandard, unsafe, and non-therapeutic medical care provided by her clinics while she endorsed and accepted money from a variety of rich and powerful people who had stunning ethical lapses.

  1. ^ "BBC Politics 97: Mother Teresa Dies". BBC. 1997. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Seeker of Souls". Time. Time, Inc. 24 June 2001. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  3. ^ Watts, Greg (2009). "Hell's Angel". Mother Teresa: Faith in the Darkness. History Makers. Lion Hudson. ISBN 9780745952833. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  4. ^ Lippman, Laura (26 June 1996). "Devil's Advocate". The Baltimore Sun. p. 1E. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ Steigerwald, Bill (19 January 1995). "Messing with Mother Teresa". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. C-4. Retrieved 1 April 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT19950208 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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