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Category Archives: Adaptations
Decline and Fall on Public TV
The recent BBC TV adaptation of Waugh’s comic novel Decline and Fall is now being shown on some Public TV channels in the USA. This seems to be a matter of local rather than national coverage. The three-episode series starts … Continue reading
Waugh on Sunday
This week’s Sunday Times contains an adulatory interview of novelist William Boyd. After describing his career at Gordonstoun School as happier than that of Prince Charles, the interview turns to his writing. His first book, published in 1983, was … … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Michael Foot, Sunday Times, William Boyd
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AFI Posts Details of The Loved One
The American Film Institute has posted detailed production information relating to the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. Much of this is familiar but there are some previously unseen (or rarely repeated) elements included in their research … Continue reading
Battle of the Oxfords
The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 to Rebroadcast Four-Part Brideshead
The four-part dramatization of Brideshead Revisited will be rebroadcast starting next Monday, 4 September on BBC Radio 4 Extra. This is based on the adaptation of Jeremy Front first transmitted in 2007. It had been repeated several times since then, … Continue reading
Another Waugh Literary Debut
The Daily Mail in Richard Eden’s gossip column, reports the literary debut of another descendent of Evelyn Waugh: …Panda La Terriere, his great-granddaughter, has become the talk of the Edinburgh Fringe festival with a play she’s written about someone addicted … Continue reading
Weekend Roundup: Brideshead Re-edited
Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited dominates this week’s roundup: –Scottish novelist and journalist Allan Massie has written an article in the Catholic Herald entitled “Chapter & Verse: Brideshead re-edited”. The article begins: Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945, was Evelyn Waugh’s first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Allan Massie, Anglotopia, BBC Countryfile Live, Catholic Herald, Clothes in Books, Counter Currents Publishing, Flyte, Hot Press, Humanities
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Unsung Waughs
A posting by Ralph Berry on the weblog of the “paleoconservative” journal Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture cites one of Waugh’s least read novels: I was lately in Exeter, hoping to see something of the Islamic Centre at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Black Mischief, Complete Works, Film, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Harry Ransom Center, Sara Haslam, Tab Hunter, The Guardian
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