Clive James, 1939 -2019: Journalist, broadcaster, author … and POET!

(A Tribute to … )

Texts read and music played:

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