Watch the 90-minute Omnibus documentary Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal: Part 1 and Part 2
Vidal did a long interview in August 2011 with Al Jazeera
Hear Vidal in conversation with Jay Parini in 2009
Vidal talked with Bill Maher on his Real Time program in April 2009 - Part 1 and Part 2
Vidal goes one on one with Bill Maher, and Truthdig has the video
Vidal talks about the state of the union, May 2008, on Democracy Now
Vidal talks about his first memoir, Palimpsest, in this 1995 interview.
Here are two October 2006 radio appearances: On WBAI, and on Air America
Read and hear Vidal's 2006 State of the Union address
Here's a one hour, 40 minute video of Vidal speaking at UCLA in 2003
Read and watch Vidal's February 2006 Australian television interview with former Aussie politician Bob Carr
Vidal and author Dennis Altman discuss Altman's book on Vidal at a Los Angeles bookstore
Dennis Altman discussed his book on Australian radio in January 2006
Read about Gary Conklin's documentary of Vidal's 1982 Senate race and watch a film clip
In October 2005, Vidal spent an hour on Nation Radio talking about politics
Watch Vidal on Aussie TV in February 2005, or you can read the transcript
Vidal talks about the 2004 election in a November 2004 radio interview
Vidal helps a German TV spot criticize America for Bush and hurricane relief
Here's video on the 2004 elections
Vidal chats on Hot Talk from Cal Poly
Vidal attends a campus forum at Cal Poly
Vidal discusses a revival of his play On the March to the Sea (last 17 minutes)
Listen to or watch Vidal at Harvard in 2003
Watch an 80-minute January 2004 interview on stage in Seattle
Watch 20 minutes of video clips from Vidal's May 2005 appearance on Bill Maher's HBO program, or read the transcript of the show
Vidal discusses the 2004 presidential election four days before balloting
On Democracy Now, Vidal talks about Bush's 2005 inaugural address
Vidal talks about the mind of the terrorist on Australian radio
Vidal spent 90 minutes discussing his work on C-SPAN's Book TV
Here's a TV discussion on the Patriot Act
Listen to some radio shows that Vidal did on WBAI radio in New York in 2004, ranging in length from one to four hours. The shows of Feb. 22, March 28, and April 28 last one hour, and the May 23 show is about four hours.
With Dinesh D'Souza and others, Vidal discusses enemies of the state
Watch numerous video clips from the documentary The Education of Gore Vidal, a PBS documentary
The BBC's Hardtalk aired a 2003 interview with Vidal
Vidal speaks at the National Constitution Center
Here are three more BBC interview clips
Hear and see Vidal talk about the "United States of Amnesia" on May 21, 2004, and again on June 4, 2004
See and hear Vidal discuss Sept. 11 on Norwegian television
Vidal makes predictions for the Bush presidency
An interview on a Dublin radio station
Here's a 35-minute chat from 1992
Vidal, on the radio, discusses The Golden Age
This is another radio interview about The Golden Age
Vidal, on the radio, discusses The Smithsonian Institution
Louis Auchincloss discusses Vidal's memoir on National Public Radio
Vidal reads from The Golden Age
See Vidal talk about the American empire (Buy the video!)
Fred Kaplan reads from his book Gore Vidal: A Biography
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