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Category Archives: Interviews
Monsignor Rittig Revisited
The Zagreb newspaper Večernji list has published an interview of the writer and religion scholar Margareta Matijevic who has recently written a book about the Yugoslav priest and politician Svetozar Rittig. From what I can gather from the computerized translation … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Croatia, Svetozar Rittig, Večernji List, Yugoslavia
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Evelyn Waugh and “Sylvia Scarlett”
The Turner Classic Movies channel will tomorrow broadcast the 1935 George Cukor adaptation of Compton MacKenzie’s 1918 novel The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett. Waugh came close to adapting the screenplay for the film. According to TCM’s notes … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged George Cukor, John Collier, Turner Classic Movies
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Waugh’s V-E Day
Milena Borden has forwarded the following article to commemorate the 75th anniversary of V-E Day as experienced by Evelyn Waugh: A few days before the Victory in Europe (V-E Day), which marked the formal end of Hitler’s war, Waugh was … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Helena, Interviews, Waugh in Abyssinia, World War II
Tagged Benito Mussolini, V-E Day
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Roundup: Wavian Humour When it is Sorely Needed
–Duncan McLaren has posted a new article in a section of his weblog denominated “Waugh Bites” where one can find miscellaneous articles about various unconnected topics. The new posting is entitled “The Legs Have It”. This posits that two leg … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, PRB, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Irish Times, Jewish News, The Times
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Beaton Exhibit Opens at NPG
The much-mentioned exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photgraphic record of the Bright Young People of the 1920s opens today at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Waugh’s biographer Selina Hastings has written a review for the current issue of Tatler. It … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Ferdinand Mount, Guardian, Henry Lamb, Londonist, Robin Muir, Selina Hastings, Southby's, Tatler, The Oldie, The Times
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Yugoslavia: Churchill Hoodwinked
Writer and TV producer Peter Batty was recently interviewed by the Slovenian weekly news magazine Democracija. The results are posted in English on their website. He is asked about his book Hoodwinking Churchill (2011) in which he explained how English … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Democracija, Peter Batty, Yugoslavia
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Upcoming Waugh Events: Aberdeen and Leipzig
—Random House has announced a Waugh-related promotional event at the upcoming Leipzig Book Fair next month. They will offer two readings by Jan Weiler of selections from his audiobook in German of the unexpurgated translation of Waugh’s novel Scoop. This … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, Events, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged Aberdeen Press and Journal, Country Houses, Granite Noir, Leipzig Book Fair, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
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New Daisy Waugh Novel Includes a Brideshead Spin-off
Daisy Waugh’s latest novel entitled In the Crypt with a Candlestick will be published next month. The novel is described in an interview of the author by the Daily Mail as having a Brideshead Revisited “spin-off” theme in the plot: Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Fiction, Interviews, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Mail, Daisy Waugh
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Roundup: Connolly’s Choristers
–The London Review of Books in its latest edition has as one of its articles a review of D J Taylor’s Lost Girls. See previous posts. This is by Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Here is an excerpt: There’s a hilarious sort … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Television Programs
Tagged Horizon magazine, London Review of Books, Mental Floss, Metroland, NBC, The Millions
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BBC To Rebroadcast “Frankly Speaking” Interview
BBC Radio 4 has announced plans to rebroadcast the 1953 interview of Evelyn Waugh which is said to have contributed to his temporary madness as described in the novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Here’s the announcement: Brideshead Revisited author … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Radio Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Frankly Speaking
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