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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
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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
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Programme 2
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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