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Category Archives: Adaptations
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
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Ronald Knox
Tagged Daily Mail, DBC Pierre, Epoch Times, First Things, Guardian, Irish Times, The Scotsman
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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
Posted in Discussions, Radio, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged A Good Read, BBC
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, YouTube
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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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BBC to Rebroadcast Brideshead Radio Series
BBC has announced their rebroadcast of the radio version of Brideshead Revisited. This is in the adaptation by Jeremy Front and will appear over four episodes beginning next Monday, 25 May at 1000a on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Each episode … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jeremy Front
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Brideshead Webinar Scheduled for 28 May
Castle Howard has announced a webinar to be conducted via Twitter on Thursday, 28 May. Here’s the text of the announcement: The 28th May will mark the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Brideshead Revisited. Our Curator will run a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Events
Tagged Castle Howard, Chris Ridgway, Webinar
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