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Of course I don't watch EastEnders, said McEwan, quickly withdrawing the of course. He's told it's quite good though. 😄

So no one who is in the field is able to critique the great writers (who are all dead)? Listen to what you’re saying.

She makes a speciality of the haughty beauty that can strike men dumb. Relaxing in the library of a dumb admirer, she proves wonderfully down to earth. my thoughts exactly

Imagine in a time when intelligent discourse had a place on television

Absolute class

The smugness is off the scale!

That both of these supposed literary giants didn’t read Voyage au bout de la nuit is both ridiculous and cowardly

style gone mad....

james lived to 80 yo. amis only 73.

I can listen her for hours. So I pleasurably do

What year was this

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Admire both writers! I like that Amis defends Borges from James’ attack on his character and supposed complicity (“Cultural Amnesia”) indeed, he was much more forgiving of his fellow writers than James. Today, we can only imagine two blokes publicly guffawing at the fellatio scene in “Portnoy’s Complaint”, how ironic they then moved on to the subject of censorship.

The idea of a man of Amis' accomplishments critiquing a man of Joyce's is laughable.

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Thank you for uploading this series!

what year was this?

Suzi is beautiful. Her work is amazing

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Wagner was a genius composer but a failed dramatist -- not a single sympathetic character in any of his works, his texts are dreadful, his plots are basically buffo opera slowed to funeral march tempos, and the 'philosophical' content just a tutti frutti of odds ands ends bunged in and unresolved.

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After reading and watching him in such interviews over the years, I now feel as if I have lost a friend. RIP

I never knew fellatio and rococo are pronounced like that. Wonderful discussion.

My Struggle. 😂

It occurs to me that MA never seems more content than in the company of other writers. This is a delicious half hour.

Farewell to an old and better world

Nadezhda Mandelshdam never wrote a good book. I disagree.

Barnes is a fine speaker but his works, after History of the World, are trivial. I know “The Sense of Ending” won the Booker but I thought a slight work at best

It's amazing how many mannerisms he shares here with C Hitchens. They do say that people begin to behave like each other when they spend time together.

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Imagine basing your entire world-view on the opinion of imaginary friends. How can it be ‘unfair’ to criticise the Catholic Church for burning people at the stake, how it can by any less wrong simply because others did it?

I don’t think Oxford or Cambridge automatically makes better authors. Both seem to breed arrogance and dimwitery.

She mentions her love for Liv Ullman at 3:12 and how amazing that in 2009, Cate asked Ullman to direct her in A Street Car Named Desire, considered to be one of her best stage performances. Amazing how things manifest.

2001 I believe that was. what an enlightening fellow, and a compassionate interviewer

Does anyone know what year this is? Mid 90s some time...

Oh my partner was telling me about the komdo dragon thing , hilarious

Love how they can jump from topic to topic seamlessly. They don't skip a beat.

You can tell that Amis hung around Hitchens alot. They have similar mannerisms.

Think this is the most entertaining of all the Clive James Library interviews. Pity they only last half an hour, presumably because he wanted to sell them to a TV channel. Don't think that happened? I"m now desperate to see those Ruby Wax films.

Just realised this isn't an official account. 849 subscribers should have been a clue. This library series is missing some notable episodes, Victoria Wood, Emma Thompson, Tom Stoppard, ect. Fortunately available on other channels.

These interviews are fascinating. Whenever politics is discussed the views expressed have been proven not just wrong, but 180 degree wrong. So much for brilliant minds.

"America is strong enough to attack Afganistan". Yes PJ, but not strong enough to defeat it. And yes George W did prove the warmonger many of us knew he would be. Two clever centrists proving how stupid clever centrists can be.

I met Simon on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence about 5 years ago. Had one of those star struck moments where I wanted him to just keep talking to hear more of that voice but was too nervous to say anything. I felt stupid but he was very gracious.

No disrespect to them but I find their whole premise to be a bit of a gimmick. I grew up in remote Canada and I find it silly that people from London go to a random part of the world they know nothing about and see an animal for 5 minutes and think they know anything about it. Their just travelers that draw random animals. Nothing spectacular about it really. I dont find their work inspiring. Just Yuppies that can paint. Lovely people though.

''Style is an expression of perception''

suzi es una mujer increíble, que hombre tan afortunado es damon de tenerla a su lado! tan inteligente y hermosa<3

Suzi es tan hermosa e increíble. Te amo Suzi por ti le hecho ganas a la vida.

Larkin will be remembered, that’s the difference here - after all the ltut-tutting.

in North Face Of Soho clive james describes the weekly meeting of wits in london which he launched and where amis was king wit. in this conversation the two, many years later, are still competing - naming names and quoting like mad. james seems a bit pissed - keeping up and, characteristically, showing off his erudition. it may be as close as we'll get to seeing what those weekly 1970's brainfests were like.

Come on, Celine's "Voyage" is amazing.