Book of the Week - The Blaze Of Obscurity
Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, charting the TV years that shot him into the public eye
Book of the Week - The Blaze Of Obscurity - Episode 1
Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs, charting his TV years. The discovery of the game show Endurance and a strange interview with Michael Heseltine.
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Book of the Week - The Blaze Of Obscurity - Episode 2
Clive James reads from his fifth volume of memoirs. The advent of the TV satellite link made interviews possible with people like Tammy Faye Bakker and Willie Nelson.
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Book of the Week - The Blaze Of Obscurity - Episode 3
The TV postcard series saw Clive James travelling the world. He remembers Las Vegas, San Francisco and a surreal stay at the mansion owned by Hugh Hefner.
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Book of the Week - The Blaze Of Obscurity - Episode 4
The star interview became a regular feature and Clive gained revealing insights about Katharine Hepburn, Roman Polanski and Luciano Pavarotti.
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Book of the Week - The Blaze Of Obscurity - Episode 5
Clive makes a programme out of his attempts to learn to drive, tutored by Stirling Moss, and makes a postcard in Rome where he only just escapes the advances of Leonard Bernstein.
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