Category Archives: Adaptations

Seven days left to listen to Episode 2/7 of BBC Radio 4’s Sword of Honour

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

This is the last reminder we’ll be posting about the weekly broadcasts of BBC Radio 4’s adaptation of the Sword of Honour trilogy. New episodes are broadcast on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. UK time, and you have seven days from … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Episode 1/7 of BBC Radio 4’s Men at Arms was broadcast today

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

You have seven days left to listen to the episode at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6.

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Broadcast of BBC Radio 4’s new Sword of Honour adaptation begins on Sept. 29th

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The first episode of the new BBC Radio 4 seven-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy will be broadcast on Sept. 29th at 3:00 p.m. UK time. Archived episodes should be available for up to seven days after broadcast … Continue reading →

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Major seven-part adaptation of Sword of Honour trilogy coming to BBC Radio this year

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

From The Stage: A BBC awards scheme that launched the careers of actors such as Stephen Tompkinson and Richard Griffiths has named this year’s winners, with all the recipients being cast in a major seven-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword … Continue reading →

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Lancing College remembers Brideshead Revisited

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

A report by Sussex Living magazine on the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College.

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Sunset Boulevard’s debt to The Loved One

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Thanks to Steve Sailer for drawing to our attention his article in Taki’s Magazine about how much Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard is derived from Waugh’s The Loved One, which Wilder had tried to get the movie studio … Continue reading →

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Lancing College 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture announced

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Lancing College, the school which Evelyn Waugh attended between 1917 and 1921, has announced that the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture will be given on April 18th by Anthony Andrews, the actor who played Sebastian Flyte in the celebrated Granada Television adaptation … Continue reading →

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Film adaptation of Bella Fleace Gave a Party

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Evening Standard (London) reports that a film has been made of Evelyn Waugh’s short story Bella Fleace Gave a Party, first published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1932. The film stars Johnny Standing and Siân Phillips and will premiere at the … Continue reading →

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Party like it’s 1929: Vile Bodies at the V&A

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

This Friday, Feb. 24th, as part of its Friday Late series, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is putting on an evening of entertainment with the theme of Bright Young Things. Included in the program is a theater adaptation … Continue reading →

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Derek Granger and friends discuss TV Brideshead in London on Oct. 27th

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Derek Granger, producer and (something that was unknown until recently) one of the writers of the highly regarded 1981 Granada Television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, will be appearing with cast members at the Rayne Theatre (Chickenshed) in Southgate, London on Thurs. Oct. … Continue reading →

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