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Category Archives: Adaptations
Adapter of Brideshead Film Profiled in Independent
Andrew Davies, probably the most prominent adapter of books into TV series is profiled in a recent issue of the Independent newspaper. This article is inspired by his latest script which adapted Tolstoy’s War and Peace into a 6-hour series on … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Independent newspaper, War and Peace
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West Country Film Festival to Mark Waugh Anniversary
The Bridport News has announced that the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death will be marked at the upcoming From Page to Screen Film Festival. This will be in Bridport, Dorset from 30 March-3 April. Details will be provided next month. Meanwhile, two … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Charles Sturridge, Claire Bloom, Granada TV, Page to Screen Film Festival
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Brideshead in “Yorkshirewood”
The Yorkshire Post in a recent article recounts the large number of films and TV series that have been set or filmed in Yorkshire, giving much of the credit for this to an agency called Screen Yorkshire. The most recent … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Yorkshire Post
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Echoes of Waugh in New Morse Prequel Series
ITV in the U.K. is running the third series of its Morse prequel which is concluding this week. This is entitled Endeavour and is based on Morse’s early career in the Oxford police force in the 1960s. There seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged Endeavour, ITV, Lewis, Masterpiece Theatre, Morse, PBS
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Additional Venues Announced for Brideshead Stage Production
The English Touring Company has announced additional venues for its stage production of Brideshead Revisited. These include Bath, Cambridge, Malvern, Brighton, and Richmond-on-Thames. The production will begin in York and will also stop in Oxford and Southampton. See details here.
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged English Touring Theatre
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The Loved One Named in Best-of-Century Film List
The filmblog Zekefilm has compiled a list of notable films from the past hundred years dating back to 1915. It names a film released in the mid year of each decade. The idea seems to be to offer a representative and interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Tony Richardson, Zekefilm
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Waugh, Boyd and Manning
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged AFR, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, William Boyd
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Waugh Anniversary Events Announced
The University of Leicester has announced the details of the first in what will be of a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death in 1966. These include a monthly book group session starting on Monday 18 January. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film
Tagged University of Leicester
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Brideshead Again Named One of Top TV Period Dramas
British internet and cable service provider, BT TV, has issued a list of what it considers the top TV period drama series. Granada’s Brideshead Revisited production for ITV is one of those listed. Among other British productions on BT’s list of the top … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film
Tagged BT TV
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Brideshead Castle vs. Downton Abbey
Today’s Op-Ed pages in the New York Times carry a story (“The Stately Gift Shops of England”) about the English country house. This is by novelist Charles Lambert who credits this institution’s survival to the heritage industry and its primary advocate, the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Castle Howard, Charles Lambert, Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, New York Times
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