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Category Archives: Documentaries
Downside Abbey Features in New BBC Series
BBC 4 yesterday transmitted the first in a series called Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery. The subject of this first episode was Downside Abbey: The first film is set in Downside, a spectacular neo-gothic monastery set in the beautiful valleys … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Downside Abbey
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Final Episode of BBC Arena’s Waugh Trilogy Now Available
Episode 3 of the 1987 BBC Arena “Waugh Trilogy” is now posted on YouTube. This is entitled “An Englishman’s Home.” With this posting, all three episodes are now available. See earlier posts. Like the previous ones, this episode is also of a high quality … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged "An Englishman's Home", BBC Arena, Waugh Trilogy, YouTube
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Part 2 of BBC Arena Trilogy Posted
Part 2 of the BBC Arena’s Waugh Trilogy has been posted on YouTube. This is entitled “From Mayfair to the Jungle” and covers the 1930s continuing through the war to Brideshead Revisited. Those interviewed include William Deedes, Dorothy Lygon, John … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Interviews, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC Arena, Waugh Trilogy Part 2, YouTube
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BBC Arena Waugh Trilogy Available Online
Part 1 of the 1987 BBC Arena three-part documentary, usually called the “Waugh Trilogy,” has been posted on YouTube. This is entitled “Bright Young Things.” It was last broadcast in 2008. The series was directed and narrated by Nicholas Shakespeare, and some of … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Television Programs
Tagged BBC Arena, Nicholas Shakespeare, Waugh Trilogy, YouTube
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BBC Video Credits Waugh with Country House Revival
The BBC has posted a 3.25 minute video about the revival of interest in the English country house. Here’s a link (don’t be alarmed if it opens with an ad). Narrated by art historian Alistair Sooke, it begins with recognition of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Film, Television Programs
Tagged Alistair Sooke, BBC, Castle Howard
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Telegraph Publishes Remembrance of Waugh
In today’s Sunday Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare writes a remembrance of Waugh. Shakespeare never apparently met Waugh personally but wrote and directed the three-part 198os BBC Arena documentary of Waugh. He is also editor of the Everyman edition of Waugh’s collected travel … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Interviews, Lancing, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Arena, Dudley Carew, Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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Country Life in the Plashy Fen
An article in this week’s Spectator recounts the successful career of Country Life magazine. This is on the occasion of the BBC2’s production of a 3-part documentary on how the magazine is put together. The article is written by Nigel … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged BBC2, Country Life, Mells Manor, Spectator
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Telegraph Marks Arena’s 40th Anniversary
The Daily Telegraph has marked the 40th anniversary of BBC’s award-winning arts documentary series Arena by selecting what it regards as its 10 best programs. Among the Telegraph’s top 10, no. 4 is the 1987 production entitled “The Waugh Trilogy”: With Granada’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Documentaries, Television Programs
Tagged Arena, BBC, Daily Telegraph, Jasper Rees, The Waugh Trilogy
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Dominic Sandbrook Revisits Brideshead
The BBC is currently running a series on the history of British post-war popular culture. It is presented by historian and writer, Dominic Sandbrook, and entitled Let Us Entertain You. The second episode (“In With the Old”) was devoted to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, British Popular Culture, Dominic Sandbrook
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BBC Does Longleat
The BBC has produced a documentary series on Longleat House and its owners. This is All Change at Longleat and it focuses on the current Marquess of Bath and his son, Ceawlin (aka Viscount Weymouth). Lord Bath is not a newcomer to publicity having … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daphne Fielding, Henry Bath, Longleat House
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