The next installment of BBC’s A Good Read on Monday 21 November will include a discussion of Waugh’s novel Scoop. Here’s the description from the BBC Radio 4 Extra schedule:
Rosie Boycott and her guests – novelist William Boyd and journalist Paul Foot – discuss favourite books by Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. From 2003.
The other books include King, Queen, Knave by Nabokov and Sunset Song by Grassic Gibbon. William Boyd wrote the script for the 1987 TV adaptation of Scoop made by London Weekend TV for ITV and PBS.
This episode of A Good Read may be a rebroadcast of a 2003 episode. Here’s a link to the broadcast at 1830 next Monday. It will be available over the internet worldwide via the same link on BBC iPlayer a few minutes after 1900.
