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Category Archives: Interviews
Interview with The Loved One’s Scriptwriter
The San Francisco Chronicle has reprinted an interview with scrptwriter Terry Southern from 28 October 1964. This would have been after he had finished the script for the film adaptation of The Loved One and perhaps while the film was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Terry Southern
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Alan Hollinghurst and Ambrose Silk
Esquire magazine recently interviewed novelist Alan Hollinghurst and among the questions asked was which authors had most influenced him. An excerpt from the interview and a printed list of the books he mentioned are posted on the internet. (See this … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Esquire magazine
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First Complete Works Volumes Published
The first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works have been published by Oxford University Press. Alexander Waugh is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in yesterday’s edition of World at One in connection with this event. The interview is by … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio 4, David Sexton, Evening Standard, Luke Jones, World at One
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New Novels with Wavian Undercurrents
Two new novels have been credited in reviews with having been influenced by the writings of Evelyn Waugh. In the Spectator, Elizabeth Day’s fourth novel The Party is described in a review by Helen Brown as beginning with the hero’s Arriving at … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Quinn, Elizabeth Day, iNews, Spectator
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Waugh and the Q & A
Humorist Craig Brown writing in the Daily Mail makes a case for the elimination of the Q&A following any vocal presentation by an author. He is particularly bothered by the typical literary festival as a waste of time. In the article, … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Interviews, Lectures, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail
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Waugh in Albania
Literary journalist and author David Pryce-Jones has written a “Letter from Albania: The Twilight of Zog” that appears in the current issue of The New Criterion. He reports on his attendance at a conference about the legacy of Communism in Albania … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged David Pryce-Jones, Joseph Kanon, New York Times, The New Criterion, The Oldie
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Betjeman Interview on BBC
BBC Four has rebroadcast a TV interview of Waugh’s friend and contemporary, John Betjeman, by Michael Parkinson. The original broadcast was in November 1977, and it was Betjeman’s third and final appearance in a Parkinson interview. According to Parkinson, Betjeman was the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Bevis Hillier, John Betjeman, Michael Parkinson
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Waugh Ear Trumpet to be Displayed in Glastonbury
BBC Radio Somerset has interviewed the director of the South West Heritage Trust which recently acquired one of Evelyn Waugh’s ear trumpets. This is Tom Mayberry who is interviewed by Radio Somerset’s Charlie Taylor. Mayberry explains that the ear trumpet is intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio Somerset, Church of St Edward the Confessor Kempley, ear trumpet, Hereford Times, Lygon family, Somerset Rural Life Museum, South West Heritage Trust, Tom Mayberry
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BBC to Rebroadcast Pinfold-Producing Interview
The BBC radio interview which contributed to Evelyn Waugh’s hallucinatory episodes described in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold will be rebroadcast later this week. This episode of the Frankly Speaking series will be carried on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Saturday, 29 April 2017 … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Radio Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged BBC, Frankly Speaking, Martin Stannard
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