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Category Archives: Adaptations
New Norwegian Translation of Brideshead
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has published a review of a new Norwegian translation of Brideshead Revisited (“Gjensyn sed Brideshead“). The translation is by Johanne Fronth-Nygren and is based on Waugh’s 1959 revision of the text. The book is published by Gyldendal. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Aftenposten, Johanne Fronth-Nygren, Translations (Norwegian).
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Penguin UK Issue TV Tie-in Edition of Decline and Fall
Penguin Books have announced the publication of a TV tie-in edition of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. This will be issued later this week on 23 March 2017. Aside from a cover photo of Jack Whitehall looking rather clueless in … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Television
Tagged Chapman and Hall, Penguin Books, TV Tie-in Edition
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Daily Mail Features Decline and Fall Adaptation
This week’s Daily Mail carries a feature article (“Love and Waugh”) by Andrew Preston on the BBC adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. This appears in the Mail’s “Weekend Magazine” and involves interviews with several members of the production’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Evgeny Lebedev, George Osborne, Jack Whitehall, James Wood, The Evening Standard
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Date Set for BBC Broadcast of Decline and Fall
Radio Times has announced the time and date for the broadcast of BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Episode 1 will be transmitted on Friday 31 March at 9pm UK time. This will be on BBC1 rather than BBC2 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Radio Times, TV broadcast details
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Brideshead Lecture Online
Fr Robert Lauder, priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn who teaches literature at St John’s University, has given a lecture on Brideshead Revisited that is now available online. Click here. The lecture is part of a series on the Catholic Novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Lectures, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Fr Robert Lauder, The Catholic Novel
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Patrick Melrose Novels to be Televised
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn will be adapted for television in a 5 episode series. Each episode will be devoted to one of the five novels. The satirical humor of these novels is often compared to the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, David Nicholls, Edward St. Aubyn, Evening Standard, New York Times Book Review, Patrick Melrose Novels, The Independent
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Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview
This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Television, The Loved One, Wales
Tagged Anthony Burgess Society, BBC, Campion Hall, Martin Stannard
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Telegraph Makes Literary Tour of Stately Homes
In today’s Property section of the Daily Telegraph, there is a discussion of a tour of stately homes that have a literary connection. This is by Eleanor Doughty, known to this parish as a Waugh fan. She starts with a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Blackpool Gazete, Daily Telegraph, Eleanor Doughty, Henry de Vere Clifton, Lytham Hall, Madresfield Court, Malvern Gazette, Stonyhurst
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El Pais Chronicles Brideshead TV Generation
A feature article in the Spanish language newspaper El Pais chronicles the generation of party goers inspired by the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited: In his first scene, Sebastian appears vomiting through an open window. Margaret Thatcher had been living in Downing … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Television
Tagged Dafydd Jones, El Pais
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Guardian Includes The Loved One in Top 10 Hollywood Novels
The Guardian in this week’s “Top 10” books column considers books about Hollywood. Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One is among those selected by Tim Walker who has himself just finished his own contribution to the genre (Smoke Over Malibu). … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Greg Sheridan, Guardian, The Australian, Tim Weeks
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