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Category Archives: Academia
Final Episode of Decline and Fall
The final episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s Decline and Fall will broadcast tomorrow, Friday, 14 April on BBC One at 9pm. The adaptation has been widely reviewed and mostly praised. Rosamund Urwin gives her assessment in the Evening Standard: The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Evening Standard, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Rosamund Urwin, TLS
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Decline and Fall and Some Others
Harry Mount writing in the Catholic Herald offers these additional thoughts about the BBC’s production: The new BBC One version of Decline and Fall was pretty good – but it could only fall short of the book. The genius of … Continue reading
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
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 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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Bodleian Acquires Ducker Archives
Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the ledger books of the bespoke shoemakers Ducker and Son located for many years on The Turl. See earlier post. The acquisition was made at auction with the the financial support of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Collections, Complete Works, Events, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Bodleian Library, Ducker & Son, Financial Times
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Details and Booking for Waugh Conference Now Online
The Huntington Library has posted online the detailed schedule for the Evelyn Waugh Conference to take place on 5-6 (Fr-Sa) May 2017 at the Huntington. See previous post. Here’s the link: http://www.huntington.org/evelynwaugh/ There is a further link on the website to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Huntington Library
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Brideshead Lecture Online
Fr Robert Lauder, priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn who teaches literature at St John’s University, has given a lecture on Brideshead Revisited that is now available online. Click here. The lecture is part of a series on the Catholic Novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Lectures, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Fr Robert Lauder, The Catholic Novel
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Death Comes for the Comic Novelist
The interactive website Ranker has set up a listing that describes 13 celebrities who died on the toilet. This seemingly tasteless and pointless compilation by Carly Silver is part of Ranker’s subject category entitled “Celebrity Deaths.” Most of the deaths listed are of historical figures, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
Tagged Dappled Things, Graham Greene, Martin Stannard, Ranker
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