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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a dramatization of Evelyn Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. The script is by Jeremy Front, who recently adapted the award-winning radio version of Sword of Honour. Among the cast are Tom Hollander (as Otto) who … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Miscellaneous, Radio, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Front, Tom Hollander. James Fleet
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Penguin Celebrates 80th Birthday Without Waugh
Penguin Books is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year by publishing 80 books in a Little Black Classics series. These consist of short (c. 60 pp.) extracts from its Penguin Classics series. Conspicuous by its absence is any extract from … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, Remote People
Tagged Little Black Classics, Penguin Books, Pocket Penguins
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Cousin Jasper Cited in Cambridge Varsity
The Cambridge University student paper, Varsity, has cited Jasper Ryder’s advice to his cousin Charles on how to succeed at Oxford: “You want either a first or a fourth. There is no value in anything between. Time spent on a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall
Tagged architecture, Cambridge University, City Journal, Jasper Ryder, Otto Silenus, Oxford University, Varsity
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Waugh Cameo in BBC Series on Tatler Magazine
BBC has started a series of three programs on Tatler magazine: Posh People: Inside Tatler. In the first episode (Monday, 24 November) Matthew Bell, newly appointed Commissioning Editor, is among those interviewed. He was formerly the society diarist for the Independent … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC 2, Bullingdon Club, Hertford College, Matthew Bell, Tatler Magazine
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Huntington Library acquires major Waugh collection
The Huntington Library in San Marino, California (12 miles west of Los Angeles) has announced the acquisition of a major collection of rare editions and manuscripts of Evelyn Waugh. The collection, consisting of some 250 books and 135 letters and … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, First Editions, Letters, Manuscripts, Ninety-Two Days, The Loved One
Tagged Anthony Powell, Diana Cooper, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Harry Ransom Center, Huntington Library, Loren and Frances Rothschild, Pope John XXIII
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BBC Radio 4 discussion of Decline and Fall
On Feb. 21, on the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, David Bradshaw (Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford), John Bowen (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York) and Ann Pasternak Slater (Senior Research Fellow at … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Discussions, Fiction, Radio Programs
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, BBC, David Bradshaw, In Our Time, John Bowen, Melvyn Bragg, Radio 4
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Plas Dulas to be demolished
From the North Wales Weekly News (Nov. 10, 2011): Plas Dulas, which dates back to the 1780s, will make way for a housing development following a unanimous decision by Conwy County Council planners yesterday. Developer Alex Davies was granted permission … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Locations, Wales
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Osbert Sitwell’s inscribed copy of Decline and Fall for sale
England's Colchester Bookshop is offering for sale a copy of Decline and Fall inscribed to Osbert Sitwell. From the listing at AbeBooks.com: An exceptional association and presentation copy from the very beginning of Evelyn Waugh's career as an author, dated … Continue reading
Posted in Autographs, Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, First Editions
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