Clive James 7.10.39 – 24.11.19
Clive James, worsmith and broadcaster has died.
Broadcaster, critic, poet, TV presenter and prolific author – Clive James cheerfully criss-crossed the boundaries between high and lowbrow.
He was as much at home hosting a Shakespeare documentary as he was at fronting a programme showing people suffering indignities on Japanese TV.
His sardonic tones graced a host of TV documentaries in which he brought his own acute observations to bear on a wide variety of subjects.
A journalist on The Sydney Morning Herald once wrote: “His gift and lasting contribution has been to recognise that mass appeal does not translate into lack of substance.” . .
Roger Franklin pays tribute to him at Quadrant:
. . . As New Republic put it in 2010, attempting to explain Clive’s significance to American readers:
But try, if you will, to imagine that David Letterman also wrote long, charming critical essays…
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