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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Evelyn Waugh at the Hay Festival
An article in Vanity Fair describes an event at this year’s Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye that featured a reading from a work of Evelyn Waugh. So far as appeared from the schedule, there were no events in which a Waugh … Continue reading
Roundup: From All Over
A story in a recent edition of The Print, a New Delhi-based digital newspaper specializing in political reporting, likens the journalistic coverage of the recent Russian hacking scandal to the war coverage described in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Independent (Ireland), The National (Abu Dhabi), The Print (India), The Week
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“Waugh, Auberon, Dog Lovers Party…”
In the final episode last night on BBC1 of A Very English Scandal, Auberon Waugh does make a very brief appearance, as promised by the excellent background article in Radio Times. This occurs in a re-enactment of the announcement of … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, CNBC, Jeremey Thorpe Scandal, Radio Times, Tina Brown
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Update: Thorpe Scandal Discussed in The Oldie
Milena Borden files this report from London relating to an article by Alexander Waugh in the latest issue of The Oldie: “Rinka’s Revenge: When Auberon Waugh fought Jeremy Thorpe in the 1979 election, he honoured a family love of dogs, says his … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Jeremy Thorpe, Rinka, The Oldie
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Special Thorpe Trial Bonus Tonite on BBC4
Following tonight’s broadcast on BBC1 of the final episode of the docudrama relating to the Jeremy Thorpe scandal (A Very English Scandal), BBC4 will broadcast a previously suppressed Panorama episode relating to the trial. According to the BBC’s website: In … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Television Programs
Tagged BBC Panorama, Jeremy Thorpe Trial, Radio Times
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John Julius Norwich (1929-2018)
John Julius Norwich died earlier this week at his home in London at the age of 88. He was the only child of Evelyn Waugh’s close friend and correspondent, Diana Cooper, and her husband Duff, with whom Waugh was not … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, John Julius Norwich, The Times
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Alan Bell (1942-2018)
Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph announces the death of Alan Scott Bell. He was former librarian (1993-2002) 0f the London Library where he oversaw major building projects and computerization. According to an earlier notice on the London Library’s website, his death occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Scott Bell, Daily Telegraph, London Library
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A Tale of Two Venues: Chagford and Beckley
Two of Waugh’s favorite writing venues have recently been in the news. An article on the Easton Court Hotel in Chagford, South Devon, was recently posted on the website jot101.com. This begins with a description of the facilities in wartime … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Vile Bodies
Tagged Abingdon Arms, Easton Court Hotel, jot101.com, Oxford Mail
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Naomi Milthorpe on Waugh
Naomi Milthorpe, author of Evelyn Waugh’s Satire (now available as an ebook as well as hardback), will appear later this week at the University of Tasmania’s Humanities Showcase. Her topics will be archives, literary objects and Evelyn Waugh. Also on the program … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Lectures
Tagged Humanities Showcase, Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania
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