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Category Archives: Interviews
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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Waugh’s Birthday Roundup
Evelyn Waugh was born on this date in 1903. This is the 116th anniversary of that event. –The Oxford English Dictionary has declared today’s Word of the Day to be “Brideshead, adj.” While they do not mention the birthday anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged architecture, Bruce Gaston, Fooshya.com, Oxford English Dctionary, Paul Theroux, Philip Eade, Truthdig.com
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Columbus Day Roundup
–The Financial Times recently conducted an extensive interview of the new editor of the Daily Mail, Geordie Greig. Here’s the opening: There is one thing that a journalist can count on, said a character in Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop: … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged 1984, Daily Mail, Edith Sitwell, Financial Times, Radio Spada, The Sunday Times
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News from Stinchcombe
Following his appearance earlier this month at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival, Duncan McLaren paid a visit to nearby Piers Court. This his first visit since the two he made in the mid 2000s when he was researching his book … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Interviews, Photographs, Waugh Family
Tagged Piers Court, SoloSophie.com, Stinchcombe
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