James, who attended most F1 races during the 1980s and was a friend of former FOCA boss Bernie Ecclestone, added his own humour to the reviews which became popular with fans of the sport. He also presented "The Clive James Formula 1 Show" for ITV to coincide with their Formula One coverage in . He summed up the medium in the introduction to "Glued to the Box": "Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world." In 2007, James started presenting the BBC Radio 4 series "A Point of View", with transcripts appearing in the "Magazine" section of BBC News Online. In this programme James discussed various issues with a slightly humorous slant. Topics covered included media portrayal of torture, young black role models and corporate rebranding. Three of James's broadcasts in 2007 were shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize. In October 2009, James read a radio version of his book "The Blaze of Obscurity" on BBC Radio 4's "Book of the Week" programme. In December 2009, James talked about the P-51 Mustang and other American fighter aircraft of World War II in "The Museum of Curiosity" on BBC Radio 4. In May 2011, the BBC published a new podcast, "A Point of View: Clive James", which features all sixty "A Point of View" programmes presented by James between 2007 and 2009. He posted vlog conversations from his internet show "Talking in the Library", including conversations with Ian McEwan, Cate Blanchett, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Miller and Terry Gilliam. In addition to the poetry and prose of James himself, the site featured the works of other literary figures such as Les Murray and Michael Frayn, as well as the works of painters, sculptors and photographers such as John Olsen and Jeffrey Smart. In 2008 James performed in two eponymous shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: "Clive James in Conversation" and "Clive James in the Evening". He took the latter show on a limited tour of the UK in 2009. He famously described Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his bodybuilding days, as looking like "a brown condom full of walnuts". He described the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland as having "Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into the white cliffs of Dover." He also used to call the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by the female name "Yasmin Arafat". The origins of his famous remark "Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude but right" are set out by Edward Winter in his article "Clive James and Chess".