Administrators Andrew Reid Posted November 27, 2019 Administrators Share Posted November 27, 2019 RIP my Aussie friend. May you enjoy the afterlife and start filming that Clive James Postcard wherever that may be... Here is his incredibly dry and witty portrait of Berlin, one of the TV shows that inspired me to go there in the first place. I ended up spending nearly 8 years there. Clive James was huge in the UK and his programmes were a weekly must-watch for millions of British people. I recommend checking out everything he did - be it the books, which are fantastic, his poems, his TV shows and documentaries.... he's one of my all time favourite writers and wits. He leaves a big hole in British culture, much missed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13437293 Snowfun and Gregormannschaft 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thpriest Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 I enjoyed Unreliable Memoirs. I wrote a critisism of it for my Highers back in the day. Andrew Reid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Indeed. I'm not that great a fan of reading, but I got given a book of his that was reviews of other things (books, films, can't remember) but the reviews were spectacular. They simultaneously made me want to read the things he was reviewing, and also not want to read them as they would have inevitably been far less interesting than the reviews he wrote of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thpriest Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Having reviewed some of his work over the last few days it's clear we miss his kind of intelligence and wit in these trying times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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