Monthly Archives: November 2020

Deal on New Brideshead Series Reported Imminent

Posted on November 6, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

It has been reported in the Daily Mail, Radio Times and Deadline that a deal on a new Brideshead Revisited TV series by the BBC and HBO is imminent. Here’s the story as reported in Tatler: 2020 marks the 75th … Continue reading →

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Election Week Roundup: A Journalistic Memoir and A Belated Review

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–Foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has died at the age of 74. The New York Times  describes his career in their obituary: “Robert Fisk, a dauntless journalist who was widely praised by colleagues and competitors alike for relentlessly chronicling the Middle … Continue reading →

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Italian Biographical Sketch of Waugh

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Italian online religious journal Radio Spada has published a feature-length illustrated article containing a thumbnail biography of Evelyn Waugh. This is by Luca Fumagalli who frequently writes on English literary subjects generally and Waugh specifically in that paper. The … Continue reading →

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