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Category Archives: Scoop
Scoop with Squash Rackets
A blogger on a squash rackets weblog is posting a serial retelling of Scoop in which the mistaken identity is wrapped up in squash trivia. Here’s a link to the first installment, entitled “Desert Places (à la Evelyn Waugh).” In this case, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ian Jack, Parodies, Squash Rackets, The Telegraph (Calcutta)
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Two Waugh Novels Make BBC’s Top 100 List
The BBC recently conducted a poll of literary critics outside the UK to determine their choices of the 100 greatest British novels. Novels written by Irish or other non-British authors were excluded. The poll included 82 critics who were each asked to name … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Scoop
Tagged BBC, British novels
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Waugh and George Steer
In a story about the upcoming release of a major English language film production entitled Gernika (Basque for Guernica), the Cape Argus (a South African newspaper) recalls Evelyn Waugh’s assessment of a fellow journalist in the Abyssinian War, George Steer. … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Non-fiction, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia, World War II
Tagged Abyssinia, Cape Argus, George Steer
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Scoop TV Film To Be Aired
The 1987 TV film of Scoop will be available for streaming starting 11 December on Acorn TV. The script is by novelist William Boyd and is based on Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel which satirizes Fleet Street journalism. Outstanding performances include … Continue reading
Put Out More Voles
The Daily Telegraph has run a story about restoration of the water vole in the English countryside. It begins with a quote from Waugh: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.” So wrote William Boot, hapless reporter of … Continue reading
2001 Sword of Honour Starring Daniel Craig on Acorn TV
William Boyd’s 2001 television adaptation of [easyazon_link identifier=”B000GYI3D6″ locale=”US” tag=”theevewausoc-20″]Sword of Honour[/easyazon_link] is currently showing on Acorn TV (“[t]he best British TV streaming on demand”) in the United States and Canada. The two-episode show stars Daniel Craig as Guy Crouchback. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Daniel Craig, William Boyd
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Mrs Stitch on Parking Etiquette
The Lady magazine in a recent installment of its Guide to Modern Manners series offers advice to its readers on parking. The column opens with this example of Julia Stitch’s answer to the parking problem: Lady Diana Cooper, the grand socialite … Continue reading
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Tagged Diana Cooper, The Lady, Traffic Problems
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Daily Telegraph Lists Brideshead as a Top ITV Production
The Daily Telegraph last week marked the 60th anniversary of ITV by asking its critics to name their favorites among the network’s programs. Granada TV’s 1981 production of Brideshead Revisited was ranked number 8: This sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, ITV 60th Anniversary, William Boyd
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Spectator Article Reprises the Perroquet
In this week’s Spectator, Bruce Anderson calls up scenes from Black Mischief to describe the ideal nightclub. This is the Perroquet in Debra Dowa: I thought about Black Mischief while giving dinner to delightful young Alex in a more conventional club … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Bruce Anderson, Night Clubs, Spectator
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