Category Archives: Radio Programs

BBC to Rebroadcast Brideshead Radio Series

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC has announced their rebroadcast of the radio version of Brideshead Revisited. This is in the adaptation by Jeremy Front and will appear over four episodes beginning next Monday, 25 May at 1000a on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Each episode … Continue reading →

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Slightly Foxed Podcast Posted: “The Ordeal of Evelyn Waugh”

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The podcast produced by Slightly Foxed magazine mentioned in a previous post has now been posted. Here’s the link. Alexander Waugh and Selina Hastings are the guest panelists. A summary and cites to mentions of several works by and about … Continue reading →

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A Handful of Dust on BBC Radio 4

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC will rebroadcast a 1996 two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. According to the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine radio listings: The critics gave the thumbs down to this Evelyn Waugh novel when it was published … Continue reading →

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Waugh Podcasts

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The quarterly literary magazine Slightly Foxed has announced that its next podcast will be devoted to Evelyn Waugh. This will be posted on their website, probably on 15 April. Details such as topics, participants, time, etc. do not seem to … Continue reading →

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Shrove Tuesday Roundup

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The BBC has announced plans to release a collection of audio recordings of Jeremy Front’s radio adaptations of several works by Evelyn Waugh. This will include Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall as well as several others not identified specifically … Continue reading →

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BBC To Rebroadcast “Frankly Speaking” Interview

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 has announced plans to rebroadcast the 1953 interview of Evelyn Waugh which is said to have contributed to his temporary madness as described in the novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Here’s the announcement: Brideshead Revisited author … Continue reading →

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BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped Our World

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC has announced its list of 100 novels that shaped our world in advance of Friday’s public panel discussion at the British Library. See previous post. The panel of 7 were asked “to choose 100 genre-busting novels that have … Continue reading →

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300th Anniversary of English Novel to be Marked

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

This year is the 300th anniversary of the English novel–at least if one will accept Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe to be the first example, as seems to generally be the case. It was published on 25 April 1719. Other contenders … Continue reading →

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The Write Stuff: Waugh Episode

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 will later this week rebroadcast a 2000 episode of the long-running literary panel series The Write Stuff. The program will be devoted to the life and works of Evelyn Waugh. As described on its Wikipedia page: Each … Continue reading →

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BBC “Great Lives” Revisited

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

In this week’s issue of The Tablet, columnist Christopher Howse revisits last December’s BBC Radio 4 broadcast of the series Great Lives in which Evelyn Waugh was the subject. See previous posts. Presenter Matthew Parris interviewed panelists Russell Kane, a … Continue reading →

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