Clive James, 1939 -2019: Journalist, broadcaster, author … and POET!
(A Tribute to … )
Texts read and music played:
- Clive James: My Father before Me
- Edith Piaf: La Vie en Rose
- Clive James: Edith Piaf
- Edith Piaf: L’Hymne a l’Amour
- Clive James, on ‘Fawlty Towers’ (The Observer, Oct 5 1975)
- ‘Fawlty Towers’: ‘Communication Problems’ (BBC tv)
- Clive James, on the Winter Olympics, Innsbruck (The Observer, Feb 23 1976)
- Clive James, on ‘Vienna: The Mask of Gold’ (BBC tv) (The Observer, May 8 1977)
- Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights
- Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzaehlungen (Barcarole)
- Clive James, on Rod Stewart (The Observer, May 21 1981)
- Rod Stewart: Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
- Clive James, from ‘Unreliable Memoirs’ (1980)
- Clive James: Holding Court, Event Horizon, and Japanese Maple (all 3 Poems from Sentenced to Life, 2015)
- Clive James: Anchorage International and The Rest is Silence or Stroking Her Feet to Opus 131 (from Injury Time, 2017)
- Beethoven: String Quartet, op. 131 (1st & last movements)
