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Category Archives: Newspapers
Telegraph Publishes Remembrance of Waugh
In today’s Sunday Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare writes a remembrance of Waugh. Shakespeare never apparently met Waugh personally but wrote and directed the three-part 198os BBC Arena documentary of Waugh. He is also editor of the Everyman edition of Waugh’s collected travel … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Interviews, Lancing, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Arena, Dudley Carew, Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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Guardian Announces Reopening of Scoop Venue
A recent Guardian article about Ethiopian jazz includes the announcement that the Taitu Hotel in Addis Ababa, described by Waugh in his writings as the favored venue of the press corps and damaged by fire last year, will reopen later this year: A … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Guardian, Taitu Hotel
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Writer Follows Waugh’s Career Advice
Lisa Hilton, who has just just written a new novel, is interviewed in today’s Belfast Telegraph. The book is entitled Maestra and is described an erotic thriller: It tells the story of Judith, a working-class young beauty trying to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Belfast Telegraph, first novels, Lisa Hilton, Rossetti: His Life and Works
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Exhibition of Waugh Film Memorabilia at Bridport
The Dorset Echo carries a story about a newly announced feature of the Bridport From Page to Screen film festival this weekend. See previous posts. This will relate to: …Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One on Sunday 3rd. His grandson Alexander … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
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More News on Waugh Graves
The Times newspaper today carries a story by David Sanderson about the problem arising from the siting of the Waugh family graves. As noted in a previous post, the graves are situated in a ha-ha which stands between Waugh’s former house and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Combe Florey, Newspapers
Tagged Bishop of Bath and Wells, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Combe Florey, Septimus Waugh, Taunton Council, Times newspaper, Waugh family gravesites
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Middle Eastern Newsblog Cites Waugh Novel
A Middle Eastern newsblog Mada Masr has run an article about the parlous financial circumstances of three Lebanese newspapers. According to the blogger, Makram Rabah, to some extent this is attributable to these papers’ over-reliance on the support of influential … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers
Tagged Lebanon, Mada Masr
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FT Considers Digital Age Debrett’s
Today’s Financial Times has an article about the new ownership of Debrett’s and explains how they hope to exploit the brand. To put the company’s main product in historic perspective, they turn to a quote from Evelyn Waugh: Founded in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Debrett's, Financial Times
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The Independent Newspaper Surveys Classic Newsroom Books
Lucy Scholes writing in yesterday’s Independent makes a brief survey of what she calls the “classic newsroom book” from George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) to Annalena McAfee’s The Spoiler (2011). Waugh’s Scoop scores well in her estimation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Independent, Lucy Scholes, newsroom books
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The Queen Visits Waugh-Themed Restaurant
The Daily Telegraph reports a return visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II to Bellamy’s, the Waugh-themed restaurant in Mayfair, to celebrate a friend’s birthday: The name is both a homage to the gentlemen’s club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Bellamy's, Queen Elizabeth II, White's
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