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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Evelyn Waugh as a Tourist Destination
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent articles in connection with places tourists might be likely to visit. The first is in an article in the Daily Telegraph’s travel column by Harry Mount. This relates to the centenary celebration of … Continue reading
Papers Praise BBC’s Decline and Fall
The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian all make tonight’s first episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall recommended viewing. The notice in the Times’s “Viewing Guide” by James Jackson is the most detailed: Alongside that other academia satire, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, New Statesman, Radio Times, The Sun, The Times
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BBC’s Decline and Fall Reviewed in The Tablet and The Spectator
Two of the weeklies are the first off the mark with reviews of Episode 1 of BBC One’s Decline and Fall adaptation the day before it airs. These are by James Delingpole in The Spectator and Lucy Lethbridge in The Tablet and both … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Eva Longoria, Jack Whitehall, James Delingpole, James Wood, Lucy Lethbridge, The Spectator, The Tablet
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Waugh, Helena and the Gnostics
George Weigel, author and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, has a written an essay aimed at generating interest in Waugh’s late novel Helena. Writing in the Catholic World Report, Weigel describes the novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged A N Wilson, Catholic World Report, David Jones, George Weigel, Gnosticism, Laura Freeman, Observer, Rachel Cooke, Standpoint, The Spectator, Thomas Dilworth
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Waugh in the Media
A discussion of Waugh’s novel Scoop takes place in a recent episode of the Federalist Radio Hour. This involves an interview of Christopher Scalia by presenter Ben Domenech. Scalia begins by explaining, inter alia, his background as an academic and nearly 8 years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged Alexander cocktail, anorexia, Christopher Scalia, Emma Thompson, Federalist Radio Hour
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Decline and Fall Profiled in Independent
The Independent newspaper (still publishing online) has profiled the BBC’s upcoming production of Waugh’s Decline and Fall. The article is written by Gerard Gilbert and contains much of the same material from cast and crew interviews as that appearing in the other … Continue reading
Waugh in Scandinavia (More)
A Swedish newspaper has printed a review of a new translation of A Handful of Dust into Swedish (En Handfull Stoft) published by Modernista. The article is by Crister Enander and appears in the Helsingfors Dagblad. After a brief summary of Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Crister Enander, Dagbladet, Fredrik Wandrup, Helsingfors Dagblad, Norwegian translation, Swedish translation
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Waugh and The Queen Anne Press
A recent TLS article in its weekly back page NB column is devoted to the Queen Anne Press. This was written in response to the publication of a special issue of the Book Collector magazine devoted to Ian Fleming. The QAP was … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Items for Sale, Newspapers, The Holy Places
Tagged Ian Fleming, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Queen Anne Press, TLS
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Decline and Fall Previewed by Harry Mount and Saturday Review
Journalist and critic Harry Mount has previewed the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall in the Daily Mail (“Oh! What a Lovely Waugh!”): Here’s hoping the TV adaptation – written by James Wood (Rev) – brings more readers to Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Daily Mail, Harry mount, Saturday Review, Tom Sutcliffe
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