In reply to Robin Montaigne:
Yes, very sad even if not unexpected. Seeing Miller and James on television was an important part of my realisation that there was another world beyond the cultural desert of the suburban fringes of the West Midlands where I grew up. I loved Miller's the Body in Question and the idea that it was possible to be good at more than one thing. I was too young for Beyond the Fringe but I went back to it after the Secret Policeman's Ball - what a combination of talent!
James was a fixture as a witty presenter on TV in the 1980s but I became a real fan through reading his series of memoirs. He was part of a stellar cast of Cambridge contemporaries (there's an Australian character in the Glittering Prizes who surely must be him) and it was in Cambridge that he finally settled.
His poetry is touching and accessible and I guess we'll be hearing this more often from now on:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-28/clive-james-japanese-maple-lucy-fahe...
And let's not forget Gary Rhodes too. If you believed in that sort of thing there would be the makings of a very civilised afterlife dinner party somewhere.