+EgoShredder Agree Interviewer was a complete prick. I think he was looking for some drama to make his show more popular. He really did try and provoke Clive but clive did not respond thankfully
Clive Anderson was notorious for this kind of interview. Always trying to be funny (half the time he wasn't) and trying to provoke his guests. His most infamous moment came when the Bee Gees stormed off the set after he mocked them one too many times.
That was just Clive Anderson’s style - it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek hence the name Clive Anderson Talks Back, it was a comedy interview show, but was serious equally. Sir Clive was a great sport during this as did most of his guests. I think grace jones didn’t get his humour and laid some smacks on him bad style
Sir Clive is just too far ahead of the curve for too many people unfortunately, as time goes by his ideas get rehashed and everyone is like wow what a great idea, forgetting the original inventor, a true legend. I still love my spectrum 😘
Well, yes, and kicking and screaming out of the antiquated 70s. Then dying for the consoles of the nineties. The Spectrum was shite. You couldn't do what we're doing now on it could you.
Because of this man and others of Sinclair Research my life as a kid was absolutely full of happiness. The spectrum was just affordable enough for most kids to have their sleepless nights of gaming and program writing.
Exactly! Always looked forward to CA talks back on friday nights. He ridiculed everyone. Remember the Bee Gees? They were indeed great, yet they couldn't take the joshing. Sir Clive could and did!
Very talented and self controlled person. I was pretty amazed when I heard that he and a fellow engineer went over the math functions so that they would "fit into" the calculator.
Sinclair didn’t design the Spectrum at all. It was Richard Altwasser, Rick Dickinson and Steve Vickers who designed it, they created the hardware, firmware and the familiar “black box” outer case with rubbery keyboard. Clive Sinclair himself had little interest in computers.
Two underrated and very clever Clives. The malcontents have to understand this was fairly prime time late night TV for people who are not computer nerds, not a more factual programme like Tomorrow's World and the entertainment format was what it was. The fact is, Clive Anderson made some good points and quick witted jokes for the audience whilst giving Clive Sinclair a platform and it was all done in a good humoured way.
I wish today's TV programmes were like this as to having no political correctness, and worry for people who "may get offended". Nice to see real laughing within the audience.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
We have two men on screen here, one a true legend in his own lifetime, a man way ahead of the curve, a true pioneer in so many respects. R.I.P. Sir Clive. The other, just an arsehole who thinks he's funny.
I don't think this is from 1990; Anderson makes a joke about going on a cruise if he lost a lot of money which I think is a thinly-veiled reference to Robert Maxwell's death. Maxwell didn't die until late 1991.
He was pushing EV bikes 30 years ago, briefly alluded to in this interview. I think by this stage Sinclair Research and the computers had gone to Alan Sugar and the C5 was a total flop. But for several years after he tried with small bikes and ev bikes. The man was years ahead of his time.
This guy is so disrespectful. Sir Clive is a genius, his products may not have been the best on the market but he had the ideas and made them affordable for everyone to enjoy. I think it is safe to say that a lot of other "inventors" took Clive's ideas and modified them a bit only to flood the market. Sir Clive's creations were mainly miniaturised versions of technology, ideas which Japanese manufacturers stole from him and he was also ahead of his time, take the C5, yes it was nothing more than a hybrid electric tricycle but look at today, not just people driving fully electronic cars, but mobility scooters etc. The world is certainly a better place thanks to Sir Clive, my first computer was a ZX Spectrum and here I am over 30 years later still working in the IT industry since 1989. So thank you Sir Clive Sinclair.
Clive Anderson was notorious for making digs at his guests, that was his onscreen chat persona and pretty much why people tuned in every week. Therefore guests were fully aware what they were getting into (except maybe The Bee Gees!) and off-screen Clive Anderson would deal with his guests in a far different manner. But anyway I wholeheartedly agree, Sir Clive Sinclair has left us a monumental legacy, affordable home computing in the UK wouldn't have taken off if it wasn't for this one man, RIP good Sir.
Both Clives were great. Anderson never mentions his greatest achievement though - the ZX Spectrum. Done for laughs I suppose. Clive Anderson & Angus Deaton are what's missing from our TV sets today - genuinely witty people. Instead we only have box-tickers with little actual talent.
@@ninaevans4501 Wrong! Have I got news for you went crap as soon as Angus left. He provided just the right kind of sarcasm for a show like that. Clive Anderson was a great and witty talk show host. Far far better than the likes of Johnathan Ross. If you prefer what passes for TV today then maybe there is something not quite right about you (perhaps you are gen z?). TV in the 70s/80s was the golden years. The 90s is when it started to go wrong. I'm so glad I was alive through it.
You really couldn't go on Clive Anderson's show if you couldn't take criticism... Especially that very British, implied undermining nasty little joke (I think that's enough adjectives) that Anderson used to do. God he was particularly annoying, though... And ridiculously sharp-witted. He was just being rude to Jeffrey Archer in "that" interview, but I used to see things like this interview and wonder "how did he think of that so fast?" Clive Sinclair, brilliant man.
That other Clive was just condescending to sir Clive, and kinda insulting. And sir Clive just took it in stride, but had him assasinated backstage after the show lol
I never liked clive anderson's interviewing style. He was a weasel that always conjured cheap nitpicks for laughs to such an extreme the bee gees walked off his set. I'm surprised many more didn't.
@@cpcnw Chris and Sir Clive were both familiar with the use of a soldering iron and knew their way around a circuit better than the average joe. In contrast, Apple CEO Tim Cook often doesn’t see new Apple products until they’re shown to the public.
