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Category Archives: Television
Roundup: Parties, T-shirts and Statues
–The Financial Times has an article by Rosa Lyster on “What makes a great fictional party.” This is inspired by the party drought that was only broken only a few months ago: …As well as people, music and a reason … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television
Tagged Bodleian Library, British Library, Financial Times, T-shirts, Variety
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The Times Revisits Castle Howard
Today’s issue of The Times carries an article by Andrew Billen (“Stately homes to spare? TV stardom beckons”) recommending country houses to visit, once they are reopened to the public, based on their setting for TV series and films. This … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Andrew Billen, Castle Howard, Christopher Ridgway, Peter Fawcett, The Times newspaper
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Pre-Christmas Roundup
—The Times reports a recent interview of Nicholas Howard, current resident of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. The interview, conducted and reported by Helen Rumbelow, opens with a discussion of the shortfall in revenue caused by the recent Covid-related closures … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Phil Klay, The Spectator, The Times, Time magazine
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Roundup: Flaubert’s Birth and Hitchens’ Death
–Novelist Julian Barnes has written a rambling retrospective of Flaubert’s career covering all of his books and many of his own and Flaubert’s obsessions. This is on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Flaubert’s birth and is published in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, CrimeReads.com, Daily Telegraph, London Review of Books, Ross Douthat, Town & Country
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Brideshead and Beatles
A feature length article about the making of the 1981 Brideshead Revisited TV series appears in the Sunday Post (Dundee). This is by John Macleod and is entitled “Brideshead Recelebrated”. It is, indeed, another celebration of that event’s 40th anniversary. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Sundaty Post (Dundee), Times-Union (Albany)
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Granada TV Adaptation Celebrated in the Spectator
The Spectator has published an article marking the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This is by literary critic Mark McGinness. It opens with a description of the state of mind of potential UK viewers … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Mark McGinness, The Spectator
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Roundup: Travel Book Revival?
–A new book about travel writing has been published. Ever hopefully, a new look for a possible revival of the genre is undertaken by Tim Hannigan in his book The Travel Writing Tribe. This is reviewed by Noo Saro-Wiwa and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Non-fiction, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Above the Law, Sydney Morning Herald, The Letterpress Project, The Times, TLS, Travel Writing
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Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Roundup
–Historian Niall Ferguson writes about his latest book in the Daily Mail. This is entitled Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. He opens with the observation that the British have made a habit of laughing in the face of death, offering … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Niall Ferguson, Tate Gallery, The Independent, The Spectator
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Roundup
–The exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works relating to the Bright Young People of the 1920s has reopened in Sheffield. This was originally scheduled for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London last spring but was forced to close after … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Alexei Sayle, BBC, Financial Times, Millennium Gallery Sheffield, The Indiependent
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