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Clive James on Cultural Amnesia, Totalitarianism, and his Remarkable Career

    Writers and Company | 28 August 2022 | 0h 52m | Listen Later
    2008 interview with Clive James about his book Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts. Discusses his life and work, many of the greatest thinkers and their lessons that we keep having to relearn, and the need for humanist values.

    Clive James in Conversation

      RNZ: Saturday Morning | 29 November 2019 | 0h 15m | Listen Later | iTunes
      Clive James has died at 80 (NY Times obituary). This replays highlights from a 2015 interview with Kim Hill about life, mortality and his poetry collection Sentenced to Life.

      Clive James on Unreliable Memoirs

        Bookclub | 31 December 2017 | 0h 27m | Listen Later | iTunes
        Entertaining interview with Clive James, the poet, essayist, novelist, documentarist, critic, talk show host, travel writer, cultural commentator – and red-hot tango dancer. Discusses the first volume of his autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, which covers his boyhood years in Kogarah, a suburb of Sydney. Clive was born in 1939; the other event that year (he says) was the outbreak of war, from which his father never returned.