The show was first presented by TV critic and journalist Clive James, then celebrity chef Keith Floyd in 1989, and finally Chris Tarrant from 1990 to 2006.
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The show first began in 1982, hosted by the Australian television critic and satirist Clive James.
After periods working in journalism including a stint at the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, he entered television broadcasting and worked for the BBC, Rapido TV, Clive James's Watchmaker Films, Graham Norton's So TV and Visual Voodoo, the entertainment arm of ITN.
Her involvement there was short-lived for in 1994 she became Managing Director of Watchmaker Productions, a company she set up with Clive James and Richard Drewett.
Clive James wrote that he enjoyed the stories of Matt Braddock and Alf Tupper as a boy, without realising at the time that they were intended as fantasy figures for working-class readers.
This view is supported by authors Clive James and Jung Chang, who posit that the campaign was, from the start, a ruse intended to expose rightists and counter-revolutionaries, and that Mao Zedong persecuted those whose views were different from the party's.
In 2003 James joined International Concert Attractions (ICA) as Managing Director, a publicly listed company on Australia’s stock exchange based in Sydney, where his productions included The Blue Room, The Soweto Gospel Choir, Clive James and Pam Ayres.
Margarita Pracatan is a Cuban novelty singer, who found success in the 1990s when Clive James had her perform live on his TV show on numerous occasions.
On the official FIA video review of the 1984 season (produced by the Formula One Constructors Association), narrator Clive James summed up the year with the words "Anything as fast as the McLarens fell apart, anything as reliable finished later".
Callan is also known for his acerbic book reviews despite being described by the critic Clive James as "having the literary sensibilities of a vampire bat".
The father of entertainer Clive James is also buried here, having been a POW during the war, losing his life when the B24 carrying him home from internment crashed into a Taiwanese mountain.
It became a moderate success being shown on Saturday evening following Clive James' Saturday Night Clive.
The ten week run was preceded by a one hour documentary presented by Clive James, who was already established as Channel 4's critic in residence and featuring Medved as an expert.
These were later pruned, and the cast enlarged to feature the likes of Clive James, Kenny Everett and John Wells.
He worked as a special correspondent for Krokodil magazine in Moscow when he appeared as Clive James' 'Moscow Correspondent' on Saturday Night Clive.
The problems with the 1984 chassis were noted by broadcaster Clive James, opining in FOCA's season review video that Rosberg had managed "to make the Williams look driveable, which everyone including Frank Williams knew it really wasn't".
Clive James praised her appearance in documentary Teenage Kicks: the Search for Sophistication: "The brilliant journalist Zoe Williams did a short piece to camera that was almost an aria".
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High-profile names from the 2008 festival include Joan Rivers, Paul Merton, Clive James, John Pinette and Rhona Cameron
Edward Pygge was a pseudonym used by Ian Hamilton, John Fuller, Clive James, Russell Davies and Julian Barnes.
The Australian critic and television presenter Clive James has sarcastically described it as a symphony in reinforced concrete outstripping even a Todt Organization WWII flak emplacement for brutalist elegance.
She was a member of the Sydney Push, a Sydney bohemian group of the 1950s and 1960s that boasted among its membership Lillian Roxon, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Frank Moorhouse.
The notable international appearances he made were in the TV shows of Ruby Wax, Clive James, Jeremy Clarkson and in the British satirical programme Have I Got News For You (on series 9) in 1995.