Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Actress Dies in France

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Actress Stéphane Audran who played Cara in the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited has died in France at the age of 85. She was married at one time to new wave film director Claude Chabrol and at another, … Continue reading →

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Waugh Biographer Target of Poison Pen

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Paula Byrne, is well known in this parish for her 2009 “partial life” of Waugh, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She has also appeared and submitted papers at two Waugh conferences, one of which was notably presented in … Continue reading →

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Dramatist of WWII Yugoslavia Profiled

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Islington Tribune has published a profile of playwright James Hugh Macdonald. He has written a play called Happy Warriors based on the experience of Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in wartime Yugoslavia. (See previous posts.): James Hugh Macdonald, a … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Six Novelists, Two of them Waughs

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Maclean’s magazine has published an interview of Tom Rachman on the occsaion of the publication of a new novel, his third. This is entitled The Italian Teacher: “about an artist trying to find himself in the shadow of his painter … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh on BBC’s “Evil Genius” Podcast

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC has posted the episode of comedian Russell Kane’s “Evil Genius” podcast series that features a consideration of Evelyn Waugh. The idea is to have a panel decide whether each episode’s subject was more evil or more genius. Previous episodes … Continue reading →

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Julia’s Meltdown and Church Unity

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

In the latest issue of the Roman Catholic journal Commonweal, there is a review of a book called To Change the Church by Ross Douthat, the conservative commentator on the New York Times. The review is entitled “A Precarious Unity?” and … Continue reading →

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Brideshead: Crime Story, Aesthetes and a Scientist

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The second season of the TV series American Crime Story is nearing its end on the FX cable channel in the USA. It has just begun on BBC and has reached Episode 3 this week. It is entitled the Assassination … Continue reading →

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Hard Cases: Drugs and Reality

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spanish magazine Historia y Vida based in Barcelona has an article this month about Brenda Dean Paul. She was a member of the bright young people, and the story by Eva Melús connects her with Waugh’s novels of the … Continue reading →

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Waugh Criminal

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A new book about criminality in WWII (Merlin at War) has been written by Mark Ellis and is discussed on Historyextra.com  (official website of the BBC History Magazine). The article opens with this: The Second World War was a golden … Continue reading →

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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair  is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading →

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