Hell's Angel | |
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Written by | Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ali |
Directed by | Jenny Morgan |
Narrated by | Christopher Hitchens |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
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Producer | Tariq Ali |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 8 November 1994 |
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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.
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