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Category Archives: Locations
Waugh Connections
Times gossip columnist Patrick Kidd discusses Phiip Eade’s identification of models for Waugh characters in today’s “Diary”: …Lord Parakeet in Decline and Fall was based on Gavin Henderson, an exceedingly camp noble who, on becoming Lord Faringdon, opened a speech … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, Hampstead, Letters, London, Newspapers
Tagged Canonbury Square, George Orwell, Islington Gazette, Isokon, RIBA, Times newspaper
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Evelyn Waugh and the Preposterous Parson
A book describing the career of Rev Basil Bourchier, the first vicar of St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb, has been written by the current vicar, Alan Walker. Evelyn Waugh’s family were parishioners at the church in his youth, and … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Hampstead
Tagged Rev Alan Walker, Rev Basil Bourchier, St Jude-on-the-Hill
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Waugh in the Daily Mail
Evelyn Waugh rates two mentions in this week’s issues of the Daily Mail. Gossip columnist Ephraim Hardcastle has this takeaway from Philip Eade’s biography: Was literary giant Evelyn Waugh, who died in 1966 aged 62, a paedophile? According to a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged Daily Mail, Ephraim Hardcastle, Eva Longoria, Philip Eade
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Biography Reviewed in Waugh’s Old Neighborhoods
The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade has been reviewed in the Camden Review, which is an arts and entertainment section carried in local North London papers, including the Camden New Journal and the Islington Tribune. The review … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Complete Works, Hampstead, London, Newspapers
Tagged Camden New Journal, Gerald Isaaman, Islington Tribune, Liz Dexter, Philip Eade
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Good-bye to Fleet Street
The Independent newspaper, now online only, reports that the last journalists have now left their Fleet Street premises. The final departures were two reporters for the Dundee Sunday Post. In a panegyric to the former home of British journalism. the … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Fleet Street, Independent
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Brideshead Actor to be Honored at BAFTA Event
Jeremy Irons, who played Charles Ryder in the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, will be honored next month by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). He will take part in a secial event entitled A Life in Pictures: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BAFTA, Jeremy Irons, The Herald (Glasgow)
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Daily Mail on Location with Decline and Fall
The Daily Mail sent a reporter (Poppy Danby) and, more importantly, a photograper, to the location in Wales where the BBC’s production of Decline and Fall is being filmed. The results are posted in the Mailonline edition and contain more photos … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail
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Waugh in Politics; Margot at the DNC
The Guardian carries a story about the current renewed popularity of nostalgia in Britain. This harks back to the fashion started by the TV version of Brideshead Revisited, and the Guardian’s reporter (Stuart Jeffries) finds that nostalgia has a political … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Television, Television Programs, Wales
Tagged Democratic National Convention, Eva Longoria, Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, Nostalgia, Welsh Government
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Waugh Cited in Defense of Somerset
Somerset County was rated as one of the 20 worst places to live in the UK. It ranked 14th on the list compiled by uSwitch, an internet consumer guide, which concluded that: while the county has high rates of employment … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Combe Florey, Newspapers
Tagged Somerset County Gazette, uSwitch
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