In 2008 James performed in two eponymous shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Clive James in Conversation and Clive James in the Evening. He took the latter show on a limited tour of the UK in 2009. [46] Famous lines [ edit ] James subsequently hosted the ITV show Clive James on Television, in which he showcased unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes from around the world, notably the Japanese TV show Endurance. After his move to the BBC in 1988, he hosted a similarly formatted programme called Saturday Night Clive (1989–1991), which began on BBC2 but was popular enough to move to BBC1 in 1991. It returned in 1994 on Sunday nights, under the title Sunday Night Clive. Sir Michael Parkinson, on Unreliable Memoirs You can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal, decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed ( Unreliable Memoirs)

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Beresford, Bruce (8 September 2018). "Bruce Beresford: At last, making the film that obsessed me for 30 years". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 27 November 2019. When Mary Beard Met Clive James". Front Row Late. 21 December 2018. BBC . Retrieved 1 March 2020. ( Currently unavailable). Clive at university falls in with bohemian aesthetes. "It was my first, cruel exposure to the awkward fact that the arts attract the insane."

James' father, Albert Arthur James, was taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. Although he survived the prisoner-of-war camp, he died when the American B-24 carrying him and other freed allied POWs ran into the tail of a typhoon en route from Okinawa to Manila, and crashed into the mountains of southeastern Taiwan. [6] He was buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong. [7] James would later state that his life's works originated in his father's death. [8] a b Jeffries, Stuart (27 November 2019). "Clive James obituary". Guardian . Retrieved 28 November 2019.

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a b "Clive James reflects on career, poetry and death in interview with Kerry O'Brien". ABC News. 7 September 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2019. Star's secret affair". ninemsn: A Current Affair. 23 April 2012. Archived from the original on 24 June 2012 . Retrieved 26 June 2012. He writes well when his subject is not himself (haha, that seems like a mean remark considering this is a memoir, but his writing about the people around him, and his experiences, are what drew me on, not his introspection), and his candid prepubescent/pubescent revelations deserve an award of some kind. My brain fails me as to what. One secret deserves another, and an orphan’s memoirs will generally have plenty to tell. The next paragraph proceeds: Clive James has always seemed a man unsure whether he was a serious academic or a wannabe comedian. These recollections of childhood through school and university in mid-Century Australia reveal the dilemma in embryo.In 1968, at Cambridge, [67] James married Prudence A. "Prue" Shaw, [1] also Australian, a graduate of the University of Sydney, the University of Florence and Somerville College, Oxford. Shaw taught Italian language and literature at the University of Cambridge, and at University College London where, since retirement in 2003, she has been emerita reader in Italian studies. She is the author of Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity. From his early learning years James offers an account of himself as naturally gifted but inherently unenthusiastic. The selfishness of his relationship with his mother is viewed with ambivalent eyes - he did what he wanted, progressed with her support but seems to think he should have acted differently. The lavatorial jokes pall and the sexual history could be the story of any uncertain youth. And among all the relentless effort to be funny, what is the reader meant to make of the literary and philosophical allusions? That this gauche young Aussie has become a worldly-wise intellectual?