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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Waugh in the News
Evelyn Waugh is cited or quoted in several recent newspaper articles: In the Guardian, columnist Ian Jack has written a story in which he muses about the possibility that the Oxford-Cambridge rail line may be revived under a recent government … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Expresso (Lisbon), Guardian, New York Times, NYRB, The Inquirer (Philippines)
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Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Front
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Waugh and the “Inner Toff”
Author and journalist James Delingpole, writing in this week’s Spectator in an essay entitled “How I learned to embrace my inner toff,” cites Waugh as a precedent in defense of his reaction to certain recent changes in life style. Delingpole acquired … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Twitter
Tagged James Delingpole, The Spectator
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Waugh’s Books Ranked in Fashion Magazine Lists
Stylist magazine is a weekly print publication with free distribution within the UK. It has a books column which specializes in listing books in categories thought to be of interest to or likely to amuse its audience of young women. A recent … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Stylist magazine
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Telegraph Compares New Zadie Smith Novel to Brideshead
In a Daily Telegraph review of Zadie Smith’s new novel Swing Time, the reviewer James Walton compares it with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The novel involves a narrator and a friend who who live in different social strata of the same … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Swing Time, Zadie Smith
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John Betjeman on Stage
A one-man stage performance of Edward Fox playing Evelyn Waugh’s friend and Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, is currently touring Southern England. The play entitled “Sand in the Sandwiches” opened in Oxford last month and is reviewed in the Oxford Mail whose … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Theater
Tagged Edward Fox, John Betjeman, Oxford Mail
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New Novel with Brideshead Theme
A new novel has a Brideshead theme. This is the third novel by Francesca Kay, whose first two were also well received. This one is entitled The Long Room and, according to a review by Max Davidson in the Mail … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged 1981, Francesca Kay, Mail on Sunday, Max Davidson
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Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, and US Election
Christopher Buckley, writing in the New York Times, invokes Evelyn Waugh in a review of an audiobook of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Buckley turned on the recording and ran it straight through for 8 hours to … Continue reading
Waugh and Nostalgia
The Washington Post’s theatre critic Peter Marks waxes nostalgic in response to the current period of political turmoil consuming the United States. Most prominently, in a recent column entitled “Nostalgia! Yestalgia!”, he harks back to the “soothing” musical comedies of Rodgers and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged Nostalgia, Peter Marks, Washington Post
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Memoir of Brideshead TV Film in Vanity Fair
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the original director of the 1981 Granada TV film production of Brideshead Revisited, has written a memoir of his experience. This is published in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine and is entitled “Inside the Making of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Derek Granger, Granada TV, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Vanity Fair
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