Clive James' Postcard from

Season 4 Episode 1: Postcard from Cairo

In an occasional series that has included reports from Shanghai, Rome, Sydney and Los Angeles, Clive James makes his first trip to the Middle East and finds a city of opposites: liberalism and fundamentalism, opulence and poverty, ancient and modern. James visits the pyramids ("they're exactly as advertised: big, pointed buildings"), tries to buy a camel and talks to Omar Sharif about his love for Cairo's traditions of tolerance and cosmopolitanism.

Seasons:

8

Episodes:

18

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1989

IMDb:

7.0