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Category Archives: Locations
Memoir of EWS’s Honorary President Published
David Lodge, the Society’s Honorary President, has written the first volume of his memoirs. This was published in the UK this week under the title Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir, 1935-1975. An international edition is promised … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh Society, Festivals, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Robbery Under Law, Television Programs
Tagged D.J.Taylor, David Lodge, Financial Times, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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Waugh Cameo in BBC Series on Tatler Magazine
BBC has started a series of three programs on Tatler magazine: Posh People: Inside Tatler. In the first episode (Monday, 24 November) Matthew Bell, newly appointed Commissioning Editor, is among those interviewed. He was formerly the society diarist for the Independent … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Miscellaneous, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC 2, Bullingdon Club, Hertford College, Matthew Bell, Tatler Magazine
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Daily Mail Reports Sale of Waugh’s Favorite Writing Venue
The Daily Mail online edition for 16 September reports the offer for sale of the Easton Court Hotel in Chagford, Devon. This is the place to which Evelyn Waugh retreated to do much of his writing, including that for his … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Mail, Easton Court Hotel, Jenny Awford
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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
Posted in Events, Lancing, Lectures
Tagged Peter Bazalgette
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Evelyn Waugh 1962 Paris Review interview
In April 1962 Julian Jebb interviewed Evelyn Waugh for the Paris Review: He showed me into a comfortable, soberly furnished room, with a fine view over the trees across Hyde Park. As he moved about the room he repeated twice … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, London
Tagged 1962, Paris Review
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The Culture Show: Writers in the Blitz
A recent episode of the BBC’s series The Culture Show (November 6, 2013), entitled Wars of the Heart, dealt with the experience of several writers during the Blitz. The presenter was James Runcie. The focus was on Graham Greene and … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, London, Sightings, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Graham Greene, Henry Yorke, James Runcie, Lara Feigel, The Culture Show, The Love-Charm of Bombs, Wars of the Heart
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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
Lancing College remembers Brideshead Revisited
A report by Sussex Living magazine on the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College.
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Fiction, Lancing, Lectures, Television
Tagged Anthony Andrews, Derek Granger
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“Isn’t it true that the only liquid Americans drink is ice water?”
Dave Wood, of the (Wisconsin) River Falls Journal, considers Evelyn Waugh and recalls a story told him by the Roman Catholic American author and sometime Waugh houseguest J. F. Powers.
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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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