Category Archives: Adaptations

Celebrities and Waugh: Roundup

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The press is replete with celebrities citing Evelyn Waugh this week. In the Daily Express, actor Freddie Fox cited Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as one of his six favorite books: “Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint” is … Continue reading →

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BBC Broadcast from Castle Howard Chapel

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Last Sunday’s broadcast of the BBC Radio 4 program Sunday Worship came from the chapel of Castle Howard. The celebrant was the Right Reverend James Jones, retired Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, and his subject was “Responding to God’s Grace.”  He … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s New Year in Dutch Journal

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

An Amsterdam newspaper has posted an article on an Evelyn Waugh New Year’s celebration. This is entitled “Brideshead is een diamant” (“Brideshead is a diamond”) by Willem Pekelder and is on the website of the newspaper Trouw. It was inspired … Continue reading →

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Waviana in the Book Trade

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel  The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Revisited in Foreign Media

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Articles featuring Brideshead Revisited have appeared recently in Italian and Spanish news media. In the Italian-language Roman Catholic internet news site Radio Spada, Luca Fumagalli reviews the 1981 TV adaptation of the novel (although he notes that no Italian language … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Brideshead TV Series in Holland

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A Dutch language internet entertainment website has posted a review of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This is on the occasion of its recent rebroadcast in the Netherlands on the ONS Channel. The reviewer Robert Gooijer opens … Continue reading →

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Cecil Beaton Film and Graham Greene Radio Drama

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The director of a new documentary film about Cecil Beaton discusses his life in an article in The Times: “The dark side of Cecil Beaton.” This is Lisa Immordino Vreeland and her film is entitled Love, Cecil. Here’s an excerpt … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Helena at the Museum of the Bible

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A new institution has opened in Washington, DC. This is the Museum of the Bible. It is spread over eight floors of a purpose built structure and is reviewed in the the conservative journal Washington Free Beacon by Micah Meadowcraft. … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Revisionism

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A collection of the essays and reviews of the late A A Gill has just been published and is reviewed as the Book of the Week in The Sunday Times. The collection includes his restaurant and TV reviews as well … Continue reading →

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Waugh Recommendation Resurfaces

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

An article posted on the booksblog The Literary Sisters recommends a 1953 novel which Evelyn Waugh had selected as a “best first novel” for 1953 in The Sunday Times: A largely forgotten novel now, Hugo Charteris’ A Share of the … Continue reading →

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