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Category Archives: Newspapers
Episode 2 of Decline and Fall to Air Tonight
Several of the papers have previewed the second episode of Decline and Fall which will be transmitted this evening on BBC One at 9pm. The most detailed advance description of this episode appears in the “Viewing Guide” column by Ed Potton … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Ed Potton, Graham Norton, Radio Times, The Times
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Decline and Fall and Some Others
Harry Mount writing in the Catholic Herald offers these additional thoughts about the BBC’s production: The new BBC One version of Decline and Fall was pretty good – but it could only fall short of the book. The genius of … Continue reading
Media Buildup Begins for Decline and Fall Episode 2
Anticipating the broadcast of the second episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall, media publicity has begun to build up. The Daily Telegraph has provided a preview of that episode in its TV choice column: The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Constance Watson, Daily Telegraph, Graham Norton Show, HeatStreet.com
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Decline and Fall Discussed by Radio 4 and Sunday Papers
The latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Front Row featured a discussion of the network’s TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Presenter Stig Abell interviewed scriptwriter James Wood and literary critic Suzi Feay, who writes for the Financial Times. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Daily Mail, Deborah Ross, Euan Ferguson, Front Row, Hugo Rifkind, James Wood, Louis Wise, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Suzi Feay, Times newspapers
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House and Garden Reprints Excerpts from Wine in Peace and War
House and Garden magazine has reprinted excerpts it earlier published from Waugh’s 1947 booklet Wine in Peace and War: 2017 marks 70 years since House & Garden magazine first hit the news stands as the quarterly ‘Vogue House & Garden Book’, bound to its … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Collections, Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged House and Garden
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More Reviews (Mostly Favorable) of BBC’s Decline and Fall
The reviews of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall continue to pile up after last night’s transmission of Episode One. These are nearly all favorable. There was a split decision in the Guardian. An editorial thought the project misguided: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Ben Dowell, David Suchet, Guardian, James Wood, Kevin Eldon, Radio Times, Sam Wollaston
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Evelyn Waugh as a Tourist Destination
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent articles in connection with places tourists might be likely to visit. The first is in an article in the Daily Telegraph’s travel column by Harry Mount. This relates to the centenary celebration of … Continue reading
Papers Praise BBC’s Decline and Fall
The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian all make tonight’s first episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall recommended viewing. The notice in the Times’s “Viewing Guide” by James Jackson is the most detailed: Alongside that other academia satire, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, New Statesman, Radio Times, The Sun, The Times
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BBC’s Decline and Fall Reviewed in The Tablet and The Spectator
Two of the weeklies are the first off the mark with reviews of Episode 1 of BBC One’s Decline and Fall adaptation the day before it airs. These are by James Delingpole in The Spectator and Lucy Lethbridge in The Tablet and both … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Eva Longoria, Jack Whitehall, James Delingpole, James Wood, Lucy Lethbridge, The Spectator, The Tablet
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Waugh, Helena and the Gnostics
George Weigel, author and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, has a written an essay aimed at generating interest in Waugh’s late novel Helena. Writing in the Catholic World Report, Weigel describes the novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged A N Wilson, Catholic World Report, David Jones, George Weigel, Gnosticism, Laura Freeman, Observer, Rachel Cooke, Standpoint, The Spectator, Thomas Dilworth
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