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Category Archives: Newspapers
Eade Biography Reviewed in Antipodes
The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade is reviewed by Mark McGinness in the Sydney Morning Herald. After summarizing Waugh’s life as reflected in Eade’s book McGinness concludes: Waugh’s work has and will endure. Leicester University and Oxford University … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Mark McGinness, Philip Eade, Sydney Morning Herald
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Two More Reviews of Waugh Biography: a plus and a minus
Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh is reviewed in the Irish Independent newspaper and the Catholic World Report. The Independent’s reviewer is Ellis O’Hanlon who begins by noting the abundance of biographical and autobiographical material already available: This latest addition has … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic World Report, Independent newspaper (Ireland), 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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Brideshead Revisted Yet Again
Actor Jeremy Irons, who famously played Charles Ryder in the 1981 Granada TV production of Brideshead Revisited, recently made another visit to its setting. He was artist in residence at the Ryedale Festival in which he appeared in “A Meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Castle Howard, Jeremy Irons, Malton & Pickering Mercury, Ryedale Festival
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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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Simon Heffer on Decline and Fall
In today’s Daily Telegraph, journalist, author, and political commentator Simon Heffer has written an essay on Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. He recalls being assigned to read it at the age of 16 in a pile of books for his entrance … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer
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Waugh Biography in Daily Express: Back Where He Started
The Daily Express opens its review of Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh with a reference to his short-lived career as a reporter on that newspaper: HAVING been fired from the Daily Express after a very short period of work in 1927, … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Charlotte Heathcote, Daily Express, Philip Eade
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1966: The Year Waugh Died
In this week’s TLS, D J Taylor writes a long essay about literature in the 1960s, entitled “The Clinging Sixties.” He begins with a brief discussion of pivotal events of 1966 for sport and pop music. That was the year of England’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged 1966, D.J.Taylor, Literature of the Sixties, TLS
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