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Category Archives: Scoop
Details Released of Waugh Event at Chipping Campden Festival
The Chipping Campden Literary Festival to be held in May has released more details of its event entitled “Scoop: We Need to Talk About Evelyn”. This is scheduled for Friday, 10 May at 830pm in the Chipping Campden School Hall. … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Festivals, Scoop, Vile Bodies					
					
				
								
					Tagged Chipping Campden Literary Festival, Duncan McLaren, Martin Stannard				
				
				
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		Roundup: Daleks and Poputchiks
–The BBC has announced plans to issue a print version of a 1980s Dr Who episode that contains a plot line inspired by Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is explained on a website that tracks this sort of thing (BleedingCool.com) … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Loved One					
					
				
								
					Tagged BBC, Dr Who, Guardian, San Diego Reader, University Challenge				
				
				
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		Post-Holiday Roundup
–Stephen Bush writing in The Times about the Labour Party’s dysfunctional position on Brexit opens with this: Evelyn Waugh once complained that the Conservative Party, for all its efforts, had never even managed to “put the clock back a single … Continue reading
									
						Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour					
					
				
								
					Tagged Buenos Aires Times., Communio, Edward Champion, Irish Times, Modern Library, The Times				
				
				
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		Boxing Day Roundup
–The Guardian in its “Top Tens” books column this week features “books on booze”. The selection by Henry Jeffreys is explained as “not a collection of books about drunkenness or alcoholism, though both feature. Rather, it is a celebration of those … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One					
					
				
								
					Tagged BBC, Guardian, Lapham's Quarterly				
				
				
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		Waugh Lecture at Lancing
The Lancing College website has posted a report of last month’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. This year’s speaker was OL Sir Tim Rice (1958-62) who recalled how events at Lancing had helped shape his career as a lyricist: Tim admitted that … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour					
					
				
								
					Tagged Sir Tim Rice, William Boyd				
				
				
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		Waugh Event at Gloucestershire Festival
The Chipping Campden Literary Festival has issued preliminary information about its 2019 program. This is scheduled for 7-11 May 2019 and will include an event on 10 May entitled “Scoop: We Need to Talk About Waugh”. This will be presented … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Scoop					
					
				
								
					Tagged Chipping Campden Literary Festival 2019				
				
				
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		Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia					
					
				
								
					Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS				
				
				
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		Thanksgiving Roundup
–Author William Giraldi contributed an essay to Commonweal magazine as part of a series in which Roman Catholic intellectuals explain why they have left or remained in the church. A Catholic from birth, his article was posted on the magazine’s … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop					
					
				
								
					Tagged Catholic Herald, Commonweal, Daily Express, Literary Hub, Money Week, Stephanie Mann, William Geraldi				
				
				
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		Update: Patrick Balfour Copies
Bonhams has posted additional information regarding the sale of Patrick Balfour’s inscribed copies of several books by Evelyn Waugh. See previous post.: • An author’s presentation copy of Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning published in 1964. The book is accompanied … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Auctions, Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies					
					
				
								
					Tagged Bonhams, Patrick Balfour				
				
				
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		Books: Waugh and Trump and Amis
This week’s New York Review of Books has as its lead review a book by Michael Lewis called The Fifth Risk. This is is about governmental dysfunction in the present USA administration and is reviewed by Fintan O’Toole, who opens with … Continue reading
									
						Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop					
					
				
								
					Tagged Ben Macintyre, Boston Globe, Frances Donaldson, Kingsley Amis, New York Review of Books				
				
				
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