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Category Archives: Adaptations
Castle Howard Exhibition: Brideshead Revisited at 75
The Castle Howard website features a fully and handsomely illustrated exhibition of photos from the two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited and other related sources. This illustrates in part how the two adaptations are similar in some respects and how … Continue reading
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Tagged Brideshead Revisited at 75, Castle Howard
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Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) R I P
The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Ronald Harwood, noted primarily as a writer of screenplays based on adaptations of novels or plays. These adaptations include such well-received films as the Oscar-winning The Pianist (2003), One Day in the Life … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Theater
Tagged Ronald Harwood, The Daily Telegraph, The Times
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Roundup: Agony Aunts and Metroland
–In the Daily Telegraph, Rowan Pelling muses over whether novelists would make good advice to the lovelorn “agony aunts”. Pelling has always thought Edith Wharton would be excellent and notes that Simone de Beauvoir and Anaïs Nin in fact functioned … Continue reading
Waugh Night on BBC Four and Queer Stately Homes
–The BBC has announced the TV programming for next week that will include two Evelyn Waugh events on Thursday, 27 August. The first will be a rebroadcast of the 2008 theatrical film version of Brideshead Revisited, co-produced by the BBC … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC Four, Country Houses, Daily Telegraph, Face to Face
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Roundup
–The Irish Times has a story about a visit to Birr Castle in Ireland. This is the home of the Earls of Rosse, and the present Lady Rosse conducts the IT ‘s reporter, Rosita Boland, through the house in a televised … Continue reading
Waugh’s Good Read on BBC
BBC Radio 4 has rebroadcast earlier today a 2010 episode of their series A Good Read where a moderator and two guests discuss a book each of them has chosen. In this episode the moderator Sue MacGregor chooses Waugh’s 1930s … Continue reading
Bright Younger People
In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, Toby Young writes about his days at Oxford in the 1980s, energized to do so by a new book out later this week by Dafydd Jones. This is entitled Oxford, The Last Hurrah. The US … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs
Tagged Boris Johnson, Dafydd Jones, Daily Mail, Toby Young
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Castle Howard’s Brideshead Webinar on YouTube
The webinar produced by Castle Howard on the 75th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited’s publication (28 May 2020) has been posted on YouTube. This is entitled “Castle Howard and Brideshead: Fact, Fiction and In-Between” and is presented by Chris Ridgway, Castle … Continue reading
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Brideshead @ 75: The Economist and The Tablet
–The current issue of The Economist includes in its Arts section an article entitled “The Flyte club.” This is the magazine’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead in 1945. After a brief survey of the somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, The Economist, The Tablet
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Brideshead @ 75: Castle Howard, The Spectator, BBC
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first book publication of Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall and the Book Society jointly issued the book in London on 28 May 1945. The occasion has been marked in several recent events: –Castle … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Festivals, Film, Interviews, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio Scotland, Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, Jenny Niven, Philip Hensher, The Evening Standard, The Spectator
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