- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Category Archives: Adaptations
BBC to Rebroadcast Waugh Radio Classics
BBC Radio 4 has posted schedules for next week in which two Waugh radio programs will be rebroadcast. The first is the 7 episode series of Sword of Honour from 2013. This was dramatized by Jeremy Front, whose adaptation won … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Face to Face, Jeremy Front, John Freeman
Comments Off on BBC to Rebroadcast Waugh Radio Classics
Photo of Waugh’s 1947 U.S. Arrival Posted
Getty Images has posted a photo of Evelyn Waugh arriving in the U.S. on 31 January 1947. He is disembarking from the S.S. America in New York City and is on his way to Los Angeles to negotiate the sale of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Getty Images, S.S. America
Comments Off on Photo of Waugh’s 1947 U.S. Arrival Posted
Brideshead and Yorkshire in the News
Several photos from the rehearsals of the stage production of Brideshead Revisited have been posted on What’s On Stage. The photos include members of the cast, indentifying their parts, as well as of the director, Damian Cruden, and playwright, Bryony … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Christopher Sykes, The Books that Changed my Life, Theatre Royal York, Victoria "Plum" Sykes
Comments Off on Brideshead and Yorkshire in the News
Exhibition of Waugh Film Memorabilia at Bridport
The Dorset Echo carries a story about a newly announced feature of the Bridport From Page to Screen film festival this weekend. See previous posts. This will relate to: …Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One on Sunday 3rd. His grandson Alexander … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Comments Off on Exhibition of Waugh Film Memorabilia at Bridport
BBC to Mark Waugh Anniversary
BBC Radio 3 has announced a broadcast next week to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death on Easter Day in 1966 . This will be a 45 minute episode of their programme Free Thinking. Here are the details: Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Adam Mars-Jones, BBC Radio 3, Bryony Lavery, Free Thinking
Comments Off on BBC to Mark Waugh Anniversary
Evelyn Waugh and Film
In advance of his appearance at next week’s From Page to Screen festival in Bridport, Dorset (see previous post), Alexander Waugh was interviewed by Ines Cavill regarding his grandfather’s attitude to film. The article by Cavill based on the interview is posted below … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Film, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bridport, Charles Sturridge, From Page to Screen Film Festival, Ines Cavill
Comments Off on Evelyn Waugh and Film
Meditation from Brideshead
George Weigel, author of the recent National Review article linking Rex Mottram and Donald Trump, has posted some thoughts inspired by a Lenten project involving his rewatching of the 1981 Granada TV series of Brideshead Revisited: During Lent, I’ve been rewatching … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged First Things, George Weigel
Comments Off on Meditation from Brideshead
More Waugh Events Announced at West Country Festival
Additional Waugh-related events have been announced for the upcoming From Page to Screen festival in Bridport, Dorset. See earlier post. Most important, Charle Sturridge, festival curator and a director of the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisted, has invited Evelyn Waugh’s grandson, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Bridport Film Festival, Charles Sturridge, Claire Bloom, Dorset Echo
Comments Off on More Waugh Events Announced at West Country Festival
Details Emerge of Brideshead Stage Production
The Daily Mail in a story based on an interview with Damian Cruden has announced details of the upcoming stage production of Brideshead Revisited opening at York’s Theatre Royal next month. Cruden, the play’s director, said that all the characters are wrapped … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Damian Cruden, Theatre Royal York
Comments Off on Details Emerge of Brideshead Stage Production
Waugh Novel Adapted for New BBC2 TV Series
To mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death, the BBC has announced the production of a new three-part TV adaptation of his first novel Decline and Fall. The series will be adapted by James Wood who also wrote the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged BBC2, James Wood
Comments Off on Waugh Novel Adapted for New BBC2 TV Series
