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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
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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Details Emerge of Brideshead Stage Production
The Daily Mail in a story based on an interview with Damian Cruden has announced details of the upcoming stage production of Brideshead Revisited opening at York’s Theatre Royal next month. Cruden, the play’s director, said that all the characters are wrapped … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Damian Cruden, Theatre Royal York
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Waugh Cited in Architectural Satire Article
Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall (1928) has been cited in an article on architectural satire. This appears in the online edition of the magazine Building Design. The classic British book in this style, according to the article, is H.B. Cresswell’s … Continue reading
Conservative Think Tank Recommends Waugh Trilogy
The Hoover Institution of Stanford University has added Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy to its Classics of Military History. This is a recommended reading list posted on the Hoover’s internet site. The explanation for inclusion of Waugh’s war novels is … Continue reading
Waugh Quoted in New Westminster Hymnal
A quote from Evelyn Waugh’s 1959 biography of Ronald Knox is printed as a sort of epigram at the beginning of a new edition of the New Westminster Hymnal (originally published in 1939). The hymnal contains Roman Catholic versions of hymns used in … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Ronald Knox
Tagged Corpus Christi Watershed, New Westminster Hymnal
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Waugh Novel Adapted for New BBC2 TV Series
To mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death, the BBC has announced the production of a new three-part TV adaptation of his first novel Decline and Fall. The series will be adapted by James Wood who also wrote the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged BBC2, James Wood
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Brideshead Urged for Post Downton Depression
Press reports are appearing that recognize the need for something to replace the void now left by the termination of the Downton Abbey TV series. The Huffington Post in its Off the Shelf column contains an article by Kerry Fiallo recommending a dose … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Downton Abbey, The Huffington Post, Toronto Star
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Driberg’s Wedding
The Daily Express opens its weekend TV review column with a quote from Waugh: WHEN the novelist Evelyn Waugh received an invitation to the wedding of the notorious philandering MP Tom Driberg, he declined to go. “I expect the church will … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Daily Express, Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg
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Alexei Sayle Names Sword of Honour
Comedian and author Alexei Sayle names Waugh’s Sword of Honour as the book that has been most important to him. The selection appears in yesterday’s Glasgow Herald: Name: Alexei Sayle Latest Book: Thatcher Stole My Trousers A Book That Made Me: … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Sword of Honour
Tagged Alexei Sayle, Glasgow Herald
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Waugh Gender Misperception as Good Career Move
The Independent has published a report from its correspondent at the Bath Lterature Festival, Katy Guest. When learning of Time’s recent mistake re Waugh’s gender, Guest wondered if the perception of Waugh as a female writer might be a good career move. Women … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bath Literature Festival, Independent, Katy Guest
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