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Category Archives: Interviews
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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Waugh’s Visit to Vis
The Observer has published an interview of Croatian writer Srećko Horvat whose new book Poetry from the Future will be issued next week. The interviewer Andrew Anthony describes him as “one of the busiest leftwing political activists in Europe”, noting his … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Srecko Horvat, The Observer, Tito, Vis, Yugoslavia
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Russell Baker 1925-2019
Russell Baker, one of America’s leading journalists in the last half of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 93. He was best known as a reporter and columnist for the New York Times. But he got his … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged baltimore, Russell Baker
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Post-Holiday Roundup
–Stephen Bush writing in The Times about the Labour Party’s dysfunctional position on Brexit opens with this: Evelyn Waugh once complained that the Conservative Party, for all its efforts, had never even managed to “put the clock back a single … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Buenos Aires Times., Communio, Edward Champion, Irish Times, Modern Library, The Times
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