Category Archives: Newspapers

Granada Brideshead Among Telegraph’s Top 50 TV Programs

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A panel of Daily Telegraph journalists has compiled a list of the top 50 British TV programs of all time. Not surprisingly, the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited for ITV makes the list:  This sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh, Travel Writer

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Several recent articles remind us of Waugh’s pre-eminence as a travel writer in the 1930s, a time when foreign travel was still something exotic. The adventure travel magazine Avaunt has added Waugh’s Ninety-Two Days (1934) to its reading list: This account of … Continue reading →

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Doreen Jones (1941-2017): Casting Director of Granada Brideshead

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Doreen Jones who was casting director of Granada TV’s 1981 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited has died at the age of 76. Her obituary in the Guardian is written by Derek Granger who was producer of the series. Although she is … Continue reading →

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Waugh Cited in Arsenal Manager Crisis

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The ongoing crisis in the status of Arsene Wenger as manager of the Arsenal FC has resulted in a quote from Waugh in the Guardian. This appears in a posting of Marina Hyde on the Guardian’s Sportblog  considering this long pending matter: … Continue reading →

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Washington Post Recommends Scoop

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In a feature length op-ed article in the Washington Post (“Dystopian Fiction is Big Now”), Christopher Scalia makes Waugh’s Scoop recommended reading. He begins by describing the unexpected (and probably unintended) result of Donald Trump’s election as having made reading … Continue reading →

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Tabloid Feeding Frenzy on Waugh Adaptation

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

After the announcement of its debut later this month, the London tabloids are making a media meal of the BBC’s production of Decline and Fall and its stars–mostly the latter. There are stories in the Sun, Mirror, Express and Star, with … Continue reading →

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Bodleian Acquires Ducker Archives

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the ledger books of the bespoke shoemakers Ducker and Son located for many years on The Turl. See earlier post. The acquisition was made at auction with the the financial support of … Continue reading →

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Maud Russell Diaries in Telegraph

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Excerpts from the wartime diaries of Maud Russell have been published in the Daily Telegraph. In a previous post it was explained how she commissioned Rex Whistler to paint murals in her country house at Mottisfont in Hampshire where there is … Continue reading →

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New Norwegian Translation of Brideshead

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has published a review of a new Norwegian translation of Brideshead Revisited (“Gjensyn sed Brideshead“). The translation is by Johanne Fronth-Nygren and is based on Waugh’s 1959 revision of the text. The book is published by Gyldendal. … Continue reading →

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WWII Yugoslavia Revisited

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A new collection of articles about the Balkans by Irish writer Hubert Butler has been published in Ireland. This is entitled Balkan Essays, and at its center is a group of essays collected as the “Yugoslavia Suite”. The book is … Continue reading →

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