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Category Archives: Newspapers
Telegraph Names Brideshead Among Top TV Costume Dramas
On the occasion of ITV’s announcement of a new TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the Daily Telegraph has produced an album from what its fashion editors consider the most sumptuous costume dramas of all time. Granada’s 1981 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television, Twitter
Tagged costume dramas, Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, Paul Salopek, quotations
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The Roman Empire and Freedom of Movement
The feature of EU membership which more than any other seems to have contributed to Britain’s exit from that institution is freedom of movement. Yet, as explained in a recent article in the Catholic Herald, there is nothing particularly innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged Catholic Herald, Freedom of Movement, Mary Beard, Natural Family Planning, The Rad Trad
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Dutch Newspaper Features Brideshead
Rotterdam newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (or AD) has published an article about the attitude toward homosexuality in films. The two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited are used as as a case study of developments over the more than 35 years that separates them. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Ab Zagt, Algemeen Dagblad, Homosexuality in films
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Waugh and Solitude
In an article on the weblog PanAm Post, Alejandro Jenkins declares the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez to be overrated. One reason for this is the underdeveloped characters: The idea behind Hundred Years of Solitude (to create a saga-esque … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Conferences, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Natalia Sanmartin Fennolera, PanAm Post, The American Conservative, Yorkshire Post
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Scribble, Scribble, Mr Waugh
In their Daily Express column, Richard and Judy are reminded of Evelyn Waugh in a noisy pub where they can hardly here a conversation: But then the background cacophony dropped momentarily, just long enough for me to pick up a … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Andrew Keogh, Daily Express, Daily Post (North Wales), Guardian, Richard and Judy
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POMF and the ISBN
An article in the TLS discusses the history of the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) which appears on the copyright page of all books. According to Adrian Tahourdin, this was introduced in the late 1960s and became more important after computers … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Adrian Tahourdin, ISBN, TLS
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Evelyn Waugh, Foreign Policy Expert
Foreign Minister Boris Johnson cites Evelyn Waugh in a recent speech in Sydney, Australia. In explaining the basis for Britain’s exit from the EU, he is reported as saying this: Joining ASEAN and such forums, he insisted, was far better than … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Binoy Kampark, Boris Johnson, Brexit, International Policy Digest
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Play About Sonia Orwell Opens in London
Domenic Cavendish writing in the Daily Telegraph reviews a play entitled “Mrs Orwell” that opened recently in London. This is about Sonia Orwell, the secretary at Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine who married George Orwell a few weeks before his death. There … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Theater, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Domenic Cavendish, Sonia Orwell
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Telegraph Article Considers Wisdom of Retaining Diaries
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Jane Shilling considers the wisdom of retaining private diaries. This is occasioned by the upcoming publication of the teenage diaries of novelist Margaret Forster. The case of Waugh’s diaries is considered: What would Forster have felt about … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jane Shilling, Margaret Forster, private diaries
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The Bolthole and the Beast
Both the Financial Times and the Guardian have stories this weekend based on Waugh’s writngs. They are also mentioned prominently in two Australian papers. Writing in the FT, Janan Ganesh sees what may be the passing of the middle class longing … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged country house, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Guardian, Spectator (Australia), The Age
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