Clive James, Esq, CBE

Career: writer, TV presenter and entertainer; feature writer The Observer 1972- (TV critic 1972-82); fndr Watchmaker Productions 1994; Television presenter TV series: Cinema, Up Sunday, So It Goes, A Question of Sex, Saturday Night People, Clive James on Television, The Late Clive James, The Late Show with Clive James, Saturday Night Clive, The Talk Show with Clive James; TV documentaries: Shakespeare in Perspective - Hamlet 1980, The Clive James Paris Fashion Show 1981, Clive James and the Calendar Girls 1981, The Return of the Flash of Lightning 1982, Clive James in Las Vegas 1982, Clive James meets Roman Polanski 1984, The Clive James Great American Beauty Pageant 1984, Clive James in Dallas 1985, Clive James meets Katherine Hepburn 1986, Clive James on Safari 1986, Clive James and the Heroes of San Francisco 1987, Clive James in Japan 1987, Postcard from Rio 1989, Postcard from Chicago 1989, Postcard from Paris 1989, Clive James meets Jane Fonda, Clive James on the 80s 1989, Postcard from Miami 1990, Postcard from Rome 1990, Postcard from Shanghai 1990, Clive James meets Ronald Reagan 1990; Music record lyricist for Pete Atkin; albums incl: Beware of Beautiful Strangers, Driving through the Mythical America, A King at Nightfall, The Road of Silk, Secret Drinker, Live Lible, The Master of the Revels; song-book A First Folio (with Pete Atkin)

Books and Publications: Non-fiction incl: The Metropolitan Critic (1974), The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media (1975), Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage through the London Literary World (1976), Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster (1976), Visions Before Midnight (1977), At the Pillars of Hercules (1979), First Reactions (1980), Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne (1981), Crystal Bucket (1981), From the Land of Shadows (1982), Glued to the Box (1982), Flying Visits (1984), Snakecharmers in Texas (1988), Even As We Speak (2001), Reliable Essays (2001), As of This Writing (2003), The Meaning of Recognition (2005), North Face of Soho (2006), Cultural Amnesia (2007); autobiographies: Unreliable Memoirs (1980), Falling Towards England: Unreliable Memoirs II (1985), May Week Was in June: Unreliable Memoirs III (1990); Fiction Brilliant Creatures (1983), The Remake (1987), Brrm! Brrm! (1992), The Silver Castle (1996); Verse Fan-mail (1977), Poem of the year (1983), Other Passports: poems 1958-85, The Book of My Enemy (2004)