Programme 1: On not having a Classical education

'There are no libraries in heaven', says Peter Porter, quoting one of his own poems. 'All culture lies in the head.' For Clive James and Peter Porter, culture begins with the books — like Biggles and Ion Idriess — they devoured as children. The classics of ancient Greece and Rome were not drilled into them as part of their school curriculum. They acquired them later, as writers who were determined to make the European heritage of art and literature their own.