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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

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Charles Ryder’s Coat-Tails

In last week end’s print edition of the Financial Times insert How to Spend It, a short story by Chloe Fox appears.  This is entitled “A Struggling Actor” and that’s what it’s about.  Luke is the title figure, and he has … Continue reading

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Lancing College 2014 Evelyn Waugh Lecture

Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England and President of the Royal Television Society, was the guest speaker at the 2014 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College on May 1. This year’s lecture, entitled “The Drain Brain,” focused on … Continue reading

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Shoreham WordFest Evelyn Waugh evening at Lancing College, Sept. 27th

The Shoreham WordFest literary festival, “[a] celebration of the spoken and written word, with readings and discussion, poetry, song, books, plays and other writings,” will begin its 2013 program of activities with an evening devoted to the life and works … Continue reading

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Lancing College remembers Brideshead Revisited

A report by Sussex Living magazine on the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College.

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Lancing College 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture announced

Lancing College, the school which Evelyn Waugh attended between 1917 and 1921, has announced that the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture will be given on April 18th by Anthony Andrews, the actor who played Sebastian Flyte in the celebrated Granada Television adaptation … Continue reading

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Transcript of Lancing College 2012 Evelyn Waugh Lecture now online

The fourth (2012) annual Lancing College Evelyn Waugh Lecture was given on April 19th, 2012 by Reverend Professor Richard Griffiths, who discussed Waugh’s Lancing diaries and the lessons that can be learned from them in relation to his other written works. … Continue reading

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Waugh meets a Lancing Old Boy at the Dorchester

The EWS thanks Mr. Ric Cooper for the following delightful anecdote, which arrived by email: My father, Giles Cooper, dramatised Sword of Honour for BBC television in 1966. Before the project could be confirmed, he and his long-time collaborator Donald … Continue reading

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Evelyn Waugh bust unveiled at Lancing College

"Evelyn Waugh was a pupil at Lancing during the 1930s, and wrote much about his time at the College. A portrait bust, which has been presented to the School, was unveiled by Tom Waugh, its sculptor and grandson of Evelyn … Continue reading

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Lancing College Evelyn Waugh Lecture

Lancing College parents are invited to attend this year's Evelyn Waugh Lecture, to be given on March 21st by playwright, screen writer, and film director Christopher Hampton, an old boy of the school. Lancing inaugurated the annual lecture in 2008 … Continue reading

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