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Category Archives: Newspapers
Correspondence in Spectator re Waugh’s Oxford “Degree”
Alexander Waugh’s letter in the 25 November 2017 issue of The Spectator regarding the conclusion of his grandfather’s Oxford career has engendered a chain of responses comparable to those in which his grandfather used to engage. Alexander’s letter stated: “Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Alexander Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Dr Geoffrey Thomas, Peter Loring, The Spectator, Timothy O'Sullivan
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Waugh’s New Year in Dutch Journal
An Amsterdam newspaper has posted an article on an Evelyn Waugh New Year’s celebration. This is entitled “Brideshead is een diamant” (“Brideshead is a diamond”) by Willem Pekelder and is on the website of the newspaper Trouw. It was inspired … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television
Tagged New Year's, Trouw de Verdieping, Willem Pekelder
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Waugh and Hugh Johnson
In an interview for a recent issue of The Sunday Times, wine expert and author Hugh Johnson mentions commissioning articles by Evelyn Waugh on the subject of wine. This appears in the introduction to the interview by Andrew Lynch: In … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Hugh Johnson, The Sunday Times, Wine and Food
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Corker and Shumble ReBooted
Simon Parry writing in the South China Morning Post offers a retelling of Waugh’s parody of journalists reset in the jungles of today’s Papua New Guinea. He is hired by an unnamed London Sunday paper to cover the story of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Benedict Allen, Daily Mail, journalism, Mail on Sunday, Simon Parry, South China Morning Post
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Waugh’s Christmas, 2017
Waugh is remembered in the Yuletide press this year in several stories. In a fashion blog basenote.net, the perfume Nuit de Noël is mentioned: when it comes to a real Christmas perfume, for me Caron set the standards way back … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Vile Bodies
Tagged Aleteia, Donald Clarke, Irish Times, Nuit de Noel, Opplander Arbeidersblad
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Waugh’s Influence: A Roundup
–Jessica Fellowes, niece of the creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, has written a novel. This follows several companion books relating to the TV series. The novel is entitled The Mitford Murders and sounds like a combination of Agatha Christie … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Damon Young, Financial Times, Harry mount, Il Piccolo (Trieste), Irish Times, James Salter, Jessica Fellowes, Patrick Skene Catling, The Asian Age
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A Handful of Monopoly
Tom Utley writing in the Daily Mail compares the board game of Monopoly to the ending of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. He recalls a disastrous holiday in the Scottish isles where his family endured endless rainfall in a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Monopoly, Tom Utley
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Wavian Roundup
—The Guardian reviews the new book by Nicholas Shakespeare, who wrote and directed the BBC’s 1980’s Arena TV documentary series known as The Waugh Trilogy. The book is entitled Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC News, Carlos Villar Flor, Guardian, Nicholas Shakespeare, Rioja2.com, telegrams
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Evelyn Waugh: An End and a Beginning
Writing in the Weekly Standard, Elizabeth Kantor examines the fascination of viewers with the Netflix series The Crown and compares it to the earlier ITV series Downton Abbey. The article is entitled, with not too subtle irony, “Crown of Duty.” In the course … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Gimson, Conservativehome.com, Elizabeth Kantor, Netflix, The Crown, Tim Shipman, Weekly Standard
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