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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh’s last interviewer dies at 90
Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard died on January 2 in Suffolk. She was the last person to conduct a broadcast interview of Evelyn Waugh. This was for the BBC Monitor documentary series and was transmitted in February 1964. According to her … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television, Television Programs
Tagged All Change, BBC, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Face to Face, Martin Amis, Monitor, Slipstream, The Cazalet Chonicles
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Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh
The current issue of Standpoint reprints a 1986 letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper in which he attempts to explain why he and Evelyn Waugh were not, to put it mildly, close chums. HTR (1914-2003) was an academic who first came to … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Letters, Sightings
Tagged Farm Street Church, Frank Pakenham, Graham Green, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Martin D'Arcy, New Statesman, Vatican II
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Brits in Hollywood
The long-awaited publication of Lisa Colletta’s British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965: Travelers, Exiles, and Expats took place last month in both the US and the UK. Professor Colletta presented a preliminary version of portions of the book relating to Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Miscellaneous, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Hollywood, Lisa Colletta, Waugh Centenary Conference
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The Culture Show: Writers in the Blitz
A recent episode of the BBC’s series The Culture Show (November 6, 2013), entitled Wars of the Heart, dealt with the experience of several writers during the Blitz. The presenter was James Runcie. The focus was on Graham Greene and … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, London, Sightings, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Graham Greene, Henry Yorke, James Runcie, Lara Feigel, The Culture Show, The Love-Charm of Bombs, Wars of the Heart
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