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Category Archives: Fiction
Reminder: Episode 1/7 of BBC Radio 4’s Men at Arms was broadcast today
You have seven days left to listen to the episode at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6.
Posted in Adaptations, Fiction, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged BBC, Radio 4
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Broadcast of BBC Radio 4’s new Sword of Honour adaptation begins on Sept. 29th
The first episode of the new BBC Radio 4 seven-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy will be broadcast on Sept. 29th at 3:00 p.m. UK time. Archived episodes should be available for up to seven days after broadcast … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Fiction, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
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Major seven-part adaptation of Sword of Honour trilogy coming to BBC Radio this year
From The Stage: A BBC awards scheme that launched the careers of actors such as Stephen Tompkinson and Richard Griffiths has named this year’s winners, with all the recipients being cast in a major seven-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged BBC, Carleton Hobbs, Jeremy Front, Norman Beaton
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Lancing College remembers Brideshead Revisited
A report by Sussex Living magazine on the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College.
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Fiction, Lancing, Lectures, Television
Tagged Anthony Andrews, Derek Granger
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Sunset Boulevard’s debt to The Loved One
Thanks to Steve Sailer for drawing to our attention his article in Taki’s Magazine about how much Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard is derived from Waugh’s The Loved One, which Wilder had tried to get the movie studio … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Fiction, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Billy Wilder, Steve Sailer, Sunset Boulevard, Taki's Magazine
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Lancing College 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture announced
Lancing College, the school which Evelyn Waugh attended between 1917 and 1921, has announced that the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture will be given on April 18th by Anthony Andrews, the actor who played Sebastian Flyte in the celebrated Granada Television adaptation … Continue reading
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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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New Evelyn Waugh paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook editions published by Little, Brown & Hachette
On December 11, Little, Brown reissued the works of fiction of Evelyn Waugh in both paperback, hardback, and e-book formats (e-book link is to Amazon Kindle editions). Waugh’s books were last reissued by Little, Brown in 1999. Hachette Audio is … Continue reading
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Winner announced of 2011 Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest
The Evelyn Waugh Society is pleased to announce the winner of the seventh (2011) annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. Congratulations to Robert Sherron, whose essay “Guy’s Qualitative Journey towards True Vocation in Sword of Honour” was judged to be … Continue reading
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists and Waugh/Pinfold
On the website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, in a section devoted to books that have a mental health theme, Dr. Alexandra Pitman reviews The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: Both author and protagonist describe alcoholic hallucinosis – a relatively rare complication … Continue reading
