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  • Dialogues:
  • Poetry (Chicago) podcast
  • With Peter Porter
    • On not having a Classical education
      • 1: On not having a classical education
      • 2: From the mechanics of language to the music of Shakespeare
      • 3: On Shakespeare
      • 4: The heritage of Shakespeare
      • 5: The 18th century
      • 6: The 19th century
    • The literature of the 20th century
      • Programme 1
      • Programme 2
      • Programme 3
      • Programme 4
      • Programme 5
      • Programme 6
    • Humour in English literature
      • Programme 1
      • Programme 2
      • Programme 3
      • Programme 4
      • Programme 5
      • Programme 6
    • On becoming a poet
      • 1: On discovering poetry
      • 2: Newspaper days
      • 3: Down and out in London
      • 4: In praise of poetry editors
      • 5: On the art of being seriously entertaining
      • 6: On being overseas Australians
    • Sex and love in literature and the arts
      • 1: The flowing seed
      • 2: The power of forbidden or rejected love
      • 3: The perils of pornography
      • 4: Insatiable love
      • 5: The novel's daring portraits of women's sexual desires
      • 6: Telling the truth about love
    • The Artist and Politics
      • Programme 1
      • Programme 2
      • Programme 3
      • Programme 4
      • Programme 5
      • Programme 6
    • Background to the Broadcasts
  • With Michael Burleigh: "The Third Reich"
  • With Richard Dawkins
  • With Pete Atkin, on songwriting
  • On Auden, with John Clarke
  • Song Show on Tour
    • Clive James: Introduction
    • Pete Atkin: Thief in the Night
    • Clive James: The music biz
    • Pete Atkin: Thirty Year Man
    • Clive James: Songs and poems
  • CBC interview
  • NPR Interview
  • NYPL Interview
  • ABC Interview 2012
  • CJ solo:
  • BBC Radio 4: A Point of View
    • 2009 Series Two
      • 1. The Golf Ball Potato Crisp
      • 2. On Strike
      • 3. High Road to Xanadu
      • 4. The Man on the Fourth Plinth
      • 5. Blog de Jour
      • 6. Spirit of the Game
      • 7. Impact
      • 8. Hermie's Ghost
      • 9. Option Swamp
      • 10. Talking About Their Generation
    • 2009 Series One
      • 1. The speeding judge
      • 2. High-priced porn
      • 3. Bright side of the cane toad
      • 4. Reputational damage
      • 5. Britain has talent
      • 6. London underground
      • 7. Sheer poetry
      • 8. Expensive mistakes
      • 9. Feminism and democracy
      • 10. Newsflash from the Far East
    • 2008 Series Two
      • 1. How rich is rich?
      • 2. Changing the government
      • 3. Robin the Hood
      • 4. Bad language
      • 5. Glamourising terror
      • 6. Writer's room
      • 7. National identity
      • 8. Wrap it up
      • 9. Jesus
      • 10. New Year prediction
    • 2008 Series One
      • 1: Princes into Battle
      • 2: Private Life
      • 3: State of Law
      • 4: Pedal Power
      • 5: Terminal Terminal
      • 6: Right on the Money
      • 7: Legal Dilemmas
      • 8: Instructions to the Sea
      • 9: Snoop and Amy
      • 10: Gaffes
    • 2007 Series Two
      • 1: The Built World
      • 2: Corporate Art
      • 3: Sailing Sideways
      • 4: Talking Sports
      • 5: Clever Machines
      • 6: Bestsellerdom
      • 7: Giving Up Smoking
      • 8: Desirable Devices
      • 9: Radiant Faces
      • 10: Clams Are Happy
    • 2007 Series One
      • 1: Climate Change
      • 2: Plastic Surgery
      • 3: Pointless Changes
      • 4: Martial Arts
      • 5: Social Voices
      • 6: Celebrity Weddings
      • 7: London Olympics
      • 8: Black Role Models
      • 9: Media Torture
      • 10: Scams
  • An Hour on Poetry
  • Poems from "The Book of My Enemy"
    • The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered
    • Sack Artist
    • A Gesture Towards James Joyce
  • Insult to the Language
  • David Scott Mitchell Memorial Lecture
  • On Derek Walcott
  • Other poets reading aloud:
    • John Betjeman
    • Judith Beveridge
      • The Saffron Picker
      • The Lake
      • Exsanguination
    • William Empson
    • Stephen Edgar
      • The Secret Life of Books
      • All Will Be Revealed
      • A Thousand Words
    • James Fenton
    • Seamus Heaney
    • Galway Kinnell
    • Philip Larkin
    • Louis MacNeice
    • Les Murray
      • An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
      • The Power Line Incarnation
      • Employment for the Castes in Abeyance
    • Sylvia Plath
    • Anthony Thwaite
    • Richard Wilbur
    • W.B. Yeats