#OnThisDay 1988: "I couldn't really find anything bad to say about myself, so I had to quit." Clive James talked to Kirsty Wark about journalism and television stardom. | BBC Archive

Clive James' work included TV reviews; several autobiographies, starting with the famous 'Unreliable Memoirs'; poetry and the scripts for his many TV shows. The Australian-born raconteur, who remained the kid from Kogarah despite spending most of his life in the UK, has died at the age of 80. | 7.30

"What you should do is count your blessings you've lived so long. Some of my friends didn't." The Australian writer Clive James has died at the age of 80. He spoke to Channel 4 News in 2013 and 2015 about death, after being diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010. | Channel 4 News

Clive James' poem Japanese Maple, a poignant rumination on his impending death, became a viral internet hit in 2014. In one of his last interviews, he told Mary Beard in 2018 what actually happened to that tree. When Mary Beard Met Clive James is on BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/3S1qeSs | BBC Arts