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Clive James

September 2022

  • Queen Elizabeth ll makes a speech as President Ronald Reagan laughs during a banquet in March 1983 in San Francisco.

    From the Observer archive: Queen Elizabeth II special
    From the archive: Clive James on the Queen’s encounter with Ronald Reagan, 1983

    Elizabeth II endured many tours during her reign, but few will have been recorded with such wit or observation as this visit to California

July 2022

  • OM Archive June 21 1981 Wimbledon

    From the Observer archive
    Clive James goes to Wimbledon, 1981

    What would the Australian writer’s caustic wit make of John McEnroe’s tantrums? By Chris Hall

September 2020

  • Artist Claerwen James, aged three months, with father Clive.

    'He returned to what he really was': Clive James's daughter on his poetic farewell

  • Clive James

    Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life'

June 2020

  • Big Gay Out<br>LONDON - JULY 23: Margarita Pracatan poses backstage at the second annual “Big Gay Out”, Europe’s biggest Gay music festival, at Finsbury Park on July 23, 2005 in London, England. (Photo by Jo Hale/Getty Images)

    Margarita Pracatan obituary

    Cuban-American singer and cabaret act known for her residency on the Clive James Show

May 2020

  • Clive James next to the maple tree that inspired his poem Japanese Maple in his garden in Cambridge in 2015.

    The unmissables
    The Australian book you've finally got time to read: Sentenced to Life by Clive James

    For The Erratics author Vicki Laveau-Harvie, James’s slim but dazzling collection shows that poetry can be the antidote to the numbness many of us feel

March 2020

  • 25 Sep 1983, Clive James on Modern Monuments Archive Observer magazine covers. Original cover photos - Clive James by Conrad Hafenrichter &  Kennedy Space Center by Stephen Smyth (most likely a handout)

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: Clive James at the Space Center, 1983

    Our reporter visits the Florida launchpad and wonders if he has the right stuff. By Chris Hall
  • ‘He was wonderfully, dangerously funny’: Clive James.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2019
    Clive James remembered by John Simpson

    The BBC world affairs editor on a charismatic wit and gifted poet who elevated British life with his televisual panache
  • Clive James at home in Cambridge

    Clive James was a great TV critic, but don’t forget Nancy Banks-Smith

  • Clive James being photographed by a tourist in Cambridge, 1990.

    Clive James and Jonathan Miller had confidence in the wits of their viewers

    John Mullan
  • Jonathan Miller directs Take a Girl Like You in 1969.

    The playful pair who pricked the grim respectability of postwar British culture

    Nicci Gerrard
  • Euan Ferguson

    Clive James was the Mozart of TV criticism, and we are just Salieris

    Euan Ferguson
  • Clive James, 1977 (metadata date is incorrect) GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/3/2/J box 2

    Clive James: the last interview

  • Clive James photographed at the 2007 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

    ‘Clive James would have been a national treasure if only he’d taken himself more seriously’

November 2019

  • Clive James.

    For Clive James, a sense of humour was just good manners

  • Clive James

    'Heavens, what fun': what it was like to be Clive James's editor

  • Writer and broadcaster Clive James in his garden

    Sad loss of Clive James and Jonathan Miller – modest, witty, intellectual giants

  • He always enjoyed himself, and made sure we did too ... Clive James with Miss Piggy.

    My debt to Clive James, the howlingly funny critic who made TV-writing sing

  • Clive James: 'A wisecracking literary phenomenon on fire with life itself'

  • Clive James obituary

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