The career of broadcaster and TV critic Clive James will be celebrated at tonight’s Bafta Awards.
The audience at the event in London’s Covent Garden will see a short-film of his career which includes travel documentaries, landmark series looking at some of the stranger aspects of foreign TV and his stint as the television critic of The Observer.
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Comic Charlie Brooker will lead the tributes and the film will also include footage of James, who is seriously ill, receiving his Bafta Special Award earlier this year.
Sydney-born James is also a critically-acclaimed poet and his series of memoirs tracking his travels from Australia to Fleet Street fame were best-sellers.
He was diagnosed with terminal cancer five years ago but has continued to work, joking in a recent interview that “the end is nigh, but not that nigh”.
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Tonight’s event, formally known as the House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards, will also see producer and writer Jeff Pope given the special award and Channel 4 News journalist Jon Snow given the Fellowship, the highest accolade the Academy can bestow.
