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Category Archives: Interviews
Brideshead Reviewed in Brighton (More)
Drama critic David Guest has reviewed the Brighton performance of Brideshead Revisited in the Chichester Observer. He found the production to be “undeniably brave but extremely bitty,” and that it might “make the audience feel that they are just mugging up … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Theater
Tagged Brighton, Chichester Observer, David Guest, Gay Times
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Brideshead Reviewed (Yet More)
The Daily Mail has posted a brief but largely positive review of the Brideshead Revisited stage adaptation that opened last week in York. The review is by Patrick Marmion who, after praising the production and performances (“serious, witty and elegant”), concludes: … it was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged A Younger Theatre, BBC Radio 4, Bryony Lavery, Daily Mail, Patrick Marmion, Samira Ahmed, York Theatre Royal, YorkMix
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Brideshead Cast and Crew Interviews Posted on YouTube
The English Touring Theatre has posted on YouTube snippets from interviews of the cast and crew of the Brideshead Revisited stage adaptation. The play, scripted by Bryony Lavery, opened last night at the York Theatre Royal. Reviews are eagerly awaited.
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Theater
Tagged English Touring Theatre, YouTube
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Waughs in Magazines
Two recent magazine articles are devoted to Waughs. The current issue of the Tablet contains an article entitled “Scoop revisited.” This is by critic and novelist D.J. Taylor and relates to the 1960 BBC Face-to-Face TV interview that was recently rebroadcast on the … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Interviews, Letters, Newsletter
Tagged BBC, Clive James, D.J.Taylor, John Freeman, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, The Tablet
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Telegraph Publishes Remembrance of Waugh
In today’s Sunday Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare writes a remembrance of Waugh. Shakespeare never apparently met Waugh personally but wrote and directed the three-part 198os BBC Arena documentary of Waugh. He is also editor of the Everyman edition of Waugh’s collected travel … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Interviews, Lancing, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Arena, Dudley Carew, Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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BBC to Rebroadcast Waugh Radio Classics
BBC Radio 4 has posted schedules for next week in which two Waugh radio programs will be rebroadcast. The first is the 7 episode series of Sword of Honour from 2013. This was dramatized by Jeremy Front, whose adaptation won … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Face to Face, Jeremy Front, John Freeman
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Name Confusion (More)
The BBC has called in Professor of English Literature Valentine Cunningham at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to discuss the issue of name confusion stirred up by the Time magazine flap. They chose Prof. Cunningham, author of British Writers of the Thirties, thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Interviews, Oxford, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, name confusion, New York Magazine, Valentine Cunningham
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Comedian Ben Miller Names Waugh Among Favorites
The online edition of the Daily Mail carries an interview by Gwendolyn Smith of British comedian Ben Miller for the paper’s Event Magazine. Miller recently appeared in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise and has previously been seen in the … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Ben Miller, Daily Mail
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Interview in The Lady Cites War Trilogy
Veteran British actor, Nicholas Farrell, is interviewed in a recent issue of The Lady magazine. He has appeared in numerous stage, screen and TV productions, including notably Chariots of Fire, The Iron Lady, and Foyle’s War, and is currently working … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Sword of Honour
Tagged Nicholas Farrell, The Lady
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Waugh, Boyd and Manning
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged AFR, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, William Boyd
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