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Category Archives: Fiction
BBC to Mark Waugh Anniversary
BBC Radio 3 has announced a broadcast next week to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death on Easter Day in 1966 . This will be a 45 minute episode of their programme Free Thinking. Here are the details: Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Adam Mars-Jones, BBC Radio 3, Bryony Lavery, Free Thinking
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Helena on List of Recommended Historical Novels
A bookblog (mirabile dictu) has published its list of the 10 best literary and pop novels set in the ancient world. Waugh’s Helena makes the list at No. 6: Evelyn Waugh’s Helena (1950). Said to be the favorite of his books, … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Helena
Tagged Historical Novels, Terry Teachout
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Present-Day BYP Reviews Waugh Books
A blogger going by the “nom du net” of The Posh Gurl (real name H.R. Hardy) spent the past month reading and reviewing books by Waughs. She began with Auberon Waugh’s The Foxglove Saga (1960) which she found a great study … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Labels, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, Work Suspended
Tagged Auberon Waugh, The Foxglove Saga, The Posh Gurl
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Evelyn Waugh and Film
In advance of his appearance at next week’s From Page to Screen festival in Bridport, Dorset (see previous post), Alexander Waugh was interviewed by Ines Cavill regarding his grandfather’s attitude to film. The article by Cavill based on the interview is posted below … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Festivals, Film, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bridport, Charles Sturridge, From Page to Screen Film Festival, Ines Cavill
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Middle Eastern Newsblog Cites Waugh Novel
A Middle Eastern newsblog Mada Masr has run an article about the parlous financial circumstances of three Lebanese newspapers. According to the blogger, Makram Rabah, to some extent this is attributable to these papers’ over-reliance on the support of influential … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers
Tagged Lebanon, Mada Masr
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FT Considers Digital Age Debrett’s
Today’s Financial Times has an article about the new ownership of Debrett’s and explains how they hope to exploit the brand. To put the company’s main product in historic perspective, they turn to a quote from Evelyn Waugh: Founded in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Debrett's, Financial Times
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The Independent Newspaper Surveys Classic Newsroom Books
Lucy Scholes writing in yesterday’s Independent makes a brief survey of what she calls the “classic newsroom book” from George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) to Annalena McAfee’s The Spoiler (2011). Waugh’s Scoop scores well in her estimation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Independent, Lucy Scholes, newsroom books
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New Generation of “Wenlock Jakes” Superstars
Today’s Spectator has a story about the Frontline Club in London. It was founded in 2003 with the idealistic goal of providing a friendly and neutral refuge for freelance international correspondents while they spent time in London recovering from the stress … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Scoop
Tagged Frontline Club, James Kirchick, Spectator
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The Queen Visits Waugh-Themed Restaurant
The Daily Telegraph reports a return visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II to Bellamy’s, the Waugh-themed restaurant in Mayfair, to celebrate a friend’s birthday: The name is both a homage to the gentlemen’s club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Bellamy's, Queen Elizabeth II, White's
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Waugh Assessment of O’Neill Play Cited
A Chicago artsblog (Chicago Reader) has cited Evelyn Waugh’s one-line assessment of Eugene O’Neill’s play Long Day’s Journey into Night. This is in a review of a new production of the play at Chicago’s Court Theater. Waugh saw the U.K. premiere … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, London, Waugh Family
Tagged Bristol Old Vic, Eugene O'Neill, Jeremy Irons, Long Day's Journey into Night, Margaret Waugh
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