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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
BBC Airs Muriel Spark Film
BBC2 last week broadcast a one hour documentary on the life and works of novelist Muriel Spark: The Many Primes of Muriel Spark. This was originally transmitted in January on BBC Scotland to mark Spark’s centenary. The program was presented … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Documentaries, Interviews, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged BBC, Kristy Wark, Muriel Spark
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A Visit to Burgh House Exhibit: Evelyn Waugh and Basil Bourchier
Milena Borden has kindly sent this report of her visit to a Waugh-related exhibit in North London which was mentioned in a previous post: Closing this Sunday, the exhibition A Totally Preposterous Parson: Evelyn Waugh and Basil Bourchier is displayed in … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Hampstead, Waugh Family
Tagged Burgh House, Rev Alan Walker, Rev Basil Bourchier
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Roundup: Ruins, Snobs and Remittance Men
An art exhibit in Sheffield is named for a Waugh story. This is Love Among the Ruins at the S1 Artspace gallery. The gallery is temporarily located in the garage of the Park Hill housing estate while another part of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, The Loved One
Tagged Hertford College, Professor Mondo, The Mercury (South Africa), The Star (Sheffield), Volksstimme (Basel)
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Desert Island Confusion
The Independent newspaper in London has a story in a recent issue about the BBC’s long-running program Desert Island Discs. This article by Alex Johnson focuses on book lists and this week opens with a discussion of the choices made … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Alex Johnson, BBC, Desert Island Discs, The Independent
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Janetta Parladé (1921-2018)
The Daily Telegraph has announced the death of Janetta Parladé. As a young woman, she was a member of the Horizon magazine social set centering on the editor Cyril Connolly. Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Cvil War: Janetta … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Cyril Connolly, Daily Telegraph, Horizon magazine, Janetta Parladé, The Times
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An Uncertain Guest: Video Memoir of Evelyn Waugh
A posting on YouTube’s series “Web of Stories” contains a short video memoir of Evelyn Waugh recorded by the late John Julius Norwich. He was the only child of Waugh’s close friend Diana Cooper and her husband Duff. The memoir is … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews
Tagged Duff Cooper, John Julius Norwich, YouTube
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Another Private Chapel Story
The Times reports that singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran plans to build a private chapel near his home in Suffolk. This seems to be becoming a trend. See earlier posts. The article by Libby Purves opens with a reference to a Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ed Sheeran, Private Chapels, The Times
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Waugh and International Law
Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero from the University of Birmingham delivered a paper at a London conference on Languages Memory based on Evelyn Waugh’s description of his attendance at an academic conference in Scott King’s Modern Europe. The paper was entitled ‘About … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King's Modern Europe
Tagged Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero, International Law, University of Birmingham
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Waugh and Proust: A Handful de Chez Quoi ?
A brief letter in this week’s TLS raises several interesting points about Waugh’s understanding of Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. This is from Dorothy McMillan at the University of Glasgow: Sir, – As your correspondents have shown … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dorothy MacMillan, Marcel Proust, Tatler Lady Kinvara Balfour, The Hill, TLS
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