Category Archives: Television

2001 Sword of Honour Starring Daniel Craig on Acorn TV

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Antony F. P. Vickery

William Boyd’s 2001 television adaptation of [easyazon_link identifier=”B000GYI3D6″ locale=”US” tag=”theevewausoc-20″]Sword of Honour[/easyazon_link] is currently showing on Acorn TV (“[t]he best British TV streaming on demand”) in the United States and Canada. The two-episode show stars Daniel Craig as Guy Crouchback. … Continue reading →

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Daily Telegraph Lists Brideshead as a Top ITV Production

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Telegraph last week marked the 60th anniversary of ITV by asking its critics to name their favorites among the network’s programs.  Granada TV’s 1981 production of Brideshead Revisited was ranked number 8: This sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel … Continue reading →

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Waugh Cited in Latest Cameron Dispute

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In today’s Guardian, there is a discussion of the allegations that David Cameron was a member of a secret Oxford club called the Piers Gaveston Society. It was founded in 1977 and named for Edward’s II’s lover. These stories have been … Continue reading →

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Debut Novel Inspired By Brideshead

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Kate Scelsa, whose first novel has just been published, explains in yesterday’s Guardian how her book was inspired by Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. She was given the book by a college housemate but read it only several years later. As a … Continue reading →

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V&A Reunites Brideshead

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Last night at the Victoria & Albert Museum there was a panel discussion relating to the Granada TV 1980s  production of Brideshead Revisited.  The panel included actors Diana Quick (Julia Flyte) and Nicholas Grace (Anthony Blanche) as well as Derek … Continue reading →

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Express TV Critic Rewatches Brideshead

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The 1980s TV series of Brideshead Revisited was recently rebroadcast by ITV Encore and is still available on an online “catch up” site which may require a subscription fee and UK internet connection. The Sunday Express TV critic, David Stephenson, chose … Continue reading →

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Another Brideshead Birthday Greeting

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Today’s Daily Telegraph carries another article by Eleanor Doughty marking the 70th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited‘s publication on May 28, 1945. The article begins by discussing models used by Waugh for characters in the novel, breaking no new ground in … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Tops Telegraph’s List of TV Book Adaptations

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

On the occasion of the BBC’s broadcast of its adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels (taking its title from the first, Wolf Hall), the Daily Telegraph published its list of what it considers the top 20 TV adaptations of all … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s last interviewer dies at 90

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard died on January 2 in Suffolk. She was the last person to conduct a broadcast interview of Evelyn Waugh. This was for the BBC Monitor documentary series and was transmitted in February 1964. According to her … 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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