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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Times Previews Episode 3 of Decline and Fall
The Times has provided a detailed preview of tonight’s final episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Not surprisingly, given the darker contents of the latter part of the novel, the preview by James Jackson finds … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, James Jackson, Radio Times, The Times, Venice
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Media Buildup Begins for Decline and Fall Episode 2
Anticipating the broadcast of the second episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall, media publicity has begun to build up. The Daily Telegraph has provided a preview of that episode in its TV choice column: The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Constance Watson, Daily Telegraph, Graham Norton Show, HeatStreet.com
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Evelyn Waugh as a Tourist Destination
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent articles in connection with places tourists might be likely to visit. The first is in an article in the Daily Telegraph’s travel column by Harry Mount. This relates to the centenary celebration of … Continue reading
Papers Praise BBC’s Decline and Fall
The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian all make tonight’s first episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall recommended viewing. The notice in the Times’s “Viewing Guide” by James Jackson is the most detailed: Alongside that other academia satire, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, New Statesman, Radio Times, The Sun, The Times
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Waugh in the Media
A discussion of Waugh’s novel Scoop takes place in a recent episode of the Federalist Radio Hour. This involves an interview of Christopher Scalia by presenter Ben Domenech. Scalia begins by explaining, inter alia, his background as an academic and nearly 8 years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged Alexander cocktail, anorexia, Christopher Scalia, Emma Thompson, Federalist Radio Hour
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Waugh in Scandinavia (More)
A Swedish newspaper has printed a review of a new translation of A Handful of Dust into Swedish (En Handfull Stoft) published by Modernista. The article is by Crister Enander and appears in the Helsingfors Dagblad. After a brief summary of Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Crister Enander, Dagbladet, Fredrik Wandrup, Helsingfors Dagblad, Norwegian translation, Swedish translation
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Decline and Fall Previewed by Harry Mount and Saturday Review
Journalist and critic Harry Mount has previewed the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall in the Daily Mail (“Oh! What a Lovely Waugh!”): Here’s hoping the TV adaptation – written by James Wood (Rev) – brings more readers to Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Daily Mail, Harry mount, Saturday Review, Tom Sutcliffe
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D J Taylor Anticipates New TV Adaptation in Guardian
Critic and novelist D J Taylor has written an article expressing somewhat nervous anticipation in advance of next week’s premier of BBC’s three-episode version of Decline and Fall. It appears in the Guardian and is entitled “Would Evelyn Waugh have approved of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, D.J.Taylor, Guardian, James Wood
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Granada Brideshead Among Telegraph’s Top 50 TV Programs
A panel of Daily Telegraph journalists has compiled a list of the top 50 British TV programs of all time. Not surprisingly, the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited for ITV makes the list: This sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn … Continue reading
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Tagged British TV, Daily Telegraph, Granada TV, Top 50 Programs
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Norwegian Translation (More)
The translator of the 1959 version of Brideshead Revisited into Norwegian has responded to our posting on the review of that book in Aftenposten. See earlier post. The response is copied below: From: Johanne Fronth-Nygren <(click to email)>Date: Mar 22, … Continue reading
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Tagged Johanne Fronth-Nygren, Norwegian translation
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