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Category Archives: Adaptations
Waugh Lecture at Lancing
The Lancing College website has posted a report of last month’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. This year’s speaker was OL Sir Tim Rice (1958-62) who recalled how events at Lancing had helped shape his career as a lyricist: Tim admitted that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Sir Tim Rice, William Boyd
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The Waugh Before Christmas
–The Daily Mail includes Waugh in a Christmas quiz set by humorist Craig Brown. Here’s the question: 10) Match the Christmas with the participant: a) ‘The presents I got were — as always — far inferior in every way to … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Paris Review, THE
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Post-Election Roundup
Having recovered from the news deluge of the USA midterm elections, we can now return to coverage of matters Wavian: –The big story in British journalism earlier this week was Paul Dacre’s valedictory address as editor of the Daily Mail, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Herald (Chicago), Daily Mail, History Today, Image, kedgeree, Paul Dacre, Radio Spada
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Birthday Roundup
Today marks the 115th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth on 28 October 1903. Several newspapers have marked the occasion in their “this day in history” columns, including the Daily Mail. Other matters of note include: –Another article about last week’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Apollo Magazine, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, John Rothenstein, The Herald (Glasgow)
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Mid-October Roundup
–The US cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has announced two broadcasts of The Loved One in November and December. They have also published what look like they may be expanded program notes (by Jeff Stafford) for the occasion: In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Guyana Times International, longreads.com, Room of Joy, The Scotsman, The Times, Turner Classic Movies
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Literary Reputations in the Brexit Era
The Spectator has a review by Rod Liddle of the play People Like Us at the Union Theater in South London. It is written by Julie Burchill and Jane Robins and relates to a North London book group that is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, London, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, The Spectator
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Television
Tagged BBC, Public TV, WETA
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged American Film Institute
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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
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Clare Asquith, Frome Times
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