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Poetry Extra: The Echo Chamber - Clive James

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03/01/2016

The Echo Chamber - Clive James

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Clive James reads his staring-death-in-the-face poems with Paul Farley.

Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber, featuring Clive James in conversation with Paul Farley as he reads his staring-death-in-the-face poems.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive. 

In 'The Echo Chamber', Clive James talks to Paul Farley and reads his staring-death-in-the-face poems. 

Clive James has been a poet throughout his life as well as a literary critic, memoirist and television pundit. He didn't expect to be alive for this collection, after illness and old age took him in their grip a couple of years ago. But, against the odds, he's still with us. And his recent poems are extraordinarily clear-eyed and fearlessly moving. He manages to be light throughout whilst remaining, as one critic put it, deadly serious. 

Producer: Tim Dee.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

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