- Dialogues:
- Poetry (Chicago) podcast
- With Peter Porter
- With Michael Burleigh: "The Third Reich"
- With Richard Dawkins
- With Pete Atkin, on songwriting
- On Auden, with John Clarke
- Song Show on Tour
- CBC interview
- NPR Interview
- NYPL Interview
- ABC Interview 2012
- CJ solo:
- BBC Radio 4: A Point of View
- An Hour on Poetry
- Poems from "The Book of My Enemy"
- Insult to the Language
- David Scott Mitchell Memorial Lecture
- On Derek Walcott
- Other poets reading aloud:
Programme 1: On not having a Classical education
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'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.