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BBC Radio Adaptation of Put Out More Flags
BBC Radio 4 Extra will broadcast a 3 hour radio adaptation of Put Out More Flags in early December. This will be aired on three successive days starting Monday, 5 December at 0500 and repeated at 1000 and 1500, with … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Put Out More Flags, Radio, Radio Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Memorial Day Roundup
–The Atlantic Monthly has reposted its issue for September 1956. This contains Waugh’s article entitled “Max Beerbohm: A Lesson in Manners”. This was a reprint of the article that had earlier appeared in the Sunday Times. It was a memorial … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television
Tagged BBC, Gavin Millar, Newsmax, Oxford Mail, Penguin Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times
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Waugh on the Internet
–A discussion of Brideshead Revisited is scheduled for later today (13 November, 10am CST) on Meetup.com. Here’s a link. —YouTube has posted a discussion of Evelyn Waugh’s work by two Dominican friars. This is episode 119 in a series called … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Interviews, Radio Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Daisy Waugh, Godsplaining, Meetup.com, YouTube
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Brideshead Floribundum
Waugh’s most popular book Brideshead Revisited seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. Much, but not all of this is directed to prior and projected film and TV adaptations: —The Spectator’s supplement Spectator Life several weeks ago posted … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Paste Magazine, RTE, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Roundup
–Historian Niall Ferguson writes about his latest book in the Daily Mail. This is entitled Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. He opens with the observation that the British have made a habit of laughing in the face of death, offering … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Niall Ferguson, Tate Gallery, The Independent, The Spectator
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Roundup
–The exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works relating to the Bright Young People of the 1920s has reopened in Sheffield. This was originally scheduled for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London last spring but was forced to close after … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Alexei Sayle, BBC, Financial Times, Millennium Gallery Sheffield, The Indiependent
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Two Waugh Favorites on BBC
–Laura Freeman writing in The Times has provided more information on the upcoming BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel Pursuit of Love. After describing two previous Mitford-based TV series (by Simon Raven in 1980 on ITV and Deborah Moggach in … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC, Nancy Mitford, P.G.Wodehouse
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St Patrick’s Day Roundup
–RAI Radio 3 has posted a podcast relating to the new Italian translation of A Little Learning. Here is a translation of the introduction: Let’s not expect the usual self-glorification of the middle-aged writer: Waugh takes us first to get to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies, Waugh Family
Tagged Daisy Waugh, JSTOR Daily, RAI Radio 3, SoloLibri.net, YouTube
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Waugh-Themed Radio Drama Posted
The 2003 radio broadcast of an audio-play entitled “Saint Graham and Saint Evelyn, Pray for Us” was posted on the internet earlier this month. This was written by literary critic and radio-TV presenter Mark Lawson. It was originally broadcast in … Continue reading
Posted in Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, Internet Archive, Mark Lawson
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