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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
V&A Reunites Brideshead
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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Television
Tagged Derek Granger, Diana Quick, Giles Ramsay, Granada TV, Nickolas Grace, V&A Museum
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Books and Booze
The Guardian has published an article on what books make you thirsty. This is by Henry Jeffrys who just wrote a whole book on the subject. In his column, he runs through examples by Ernest Hemingway (Farewell to Arms), Patrick Hamilton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Officers and Gentlemen
Tagged Drink. Guardian, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Henry Jeffrys, Patrick Hamilton
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Brideshead Named Among Top 10 Literary Castles
The Guardian has named Brideshead Castle among its list of Top 10 literary castles and country houses. The list was put together by Helen Maslin as part of the Guardian’s ongoing series on Top 10 Children’s Books. Others selected incude Nancy Mitford’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Guardian, Helen Maslin, Top 10 Children's Books
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Waugh Among Top “Conservative” Novelists
Literary historian and professor of British literature at Ghent University, Kate Macdonald, has published in the Guardian a list of what she considers the top 10 “conservative” novels. This is based in part on her recent book Novelists Against Social … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, World War II
Tagged Conservatism, Guardian, Kate Macdonald
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Waugh on Politics
Athough Evelyn Waugh professed no interest in party politics and asserted that he never voted, he has been cited several times recently in political articles. In a Weekly Standard article earlier this month on the unfortunate politics of the British Royal family … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Letters
Tagged Buffalo News, Frances Donaldson, G.K. Chesterton, Politics, Weekly Standard
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Express TV Critic Rewatches Brideshead
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
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged David Stephenson, ITV Encore, John Mortimer, Sunday Express
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Waugh in Sitcom Punchline
In the latest episode of the ITV sitcom Vicious, starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a elderly gay couple, Evelyn Waugh makes an appearance. In this episode (No. 4 of the current series) the couple are contemplating marriage after being together for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Derek Jacobi, Ian Mckellen, ITV, Vicious
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Another Brideshead Birthday Greeting
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
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Derek Granger, Eleanor Doughty, Harry mount
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Lord Marchmain and the 7th Earl
The Guardian earlier this week ran a review of a book by Michael Bloch entitled Closet Queens. This is a history of homosexuals in English politics before 1967 when the criminality of homosexuality was ended. One of the lives considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Powell, Guardian, Lord Marchmain, Michael Bloch, William Lygon
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