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Clive James

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Last broadcast on Thu, 11 Feb 2010, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

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James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, which has sold over a million copies.

Clive James is a poet, essayist, novelist, documentarist, critic, talk show host, travel writer, cultural commentator - and red-hot tango dancer. The audience talk to Clive about Unreliable Memoirs, which covers his boyhood years in Kogarah, a suburb of Sydney. Clive was born in 1939; the other event that year (he says) was the outbreak of war, from which his father never returned. Clive tells Bookclub how that event has dominated his whole life.

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  1. Sun 7 Feb 2010
    16:00
  2. Thu 11 Feb 2010
    16:00

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