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Desert Island Confusion
The Independent newspaper in London has a story in a recent issue about the BBC’s long-running program Desert Island Discs. This article by Alex Johnson focuses on book lists and this week opens with a discussion of the choices made … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Alex Johnson, BBC, Desert Island Discs, The Independent
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Message to Milligan
The following quote said to be taken from a volume of Letters of Note appeared recently in a Twitter post retweeted from 2015: The comic Spike Milligan had great admiration for Evelyn Waugh. Whether this was reciprocated in any way must … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Men at Arms, Radio Programs, Twitter, World War II
Tagged Spike Milligan, The Goon Show
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Evelyn Waugh on BBC’s “Evil Genius” Podcast
BBC has posted the episode of comedian Russell Kane’s “Evil Genius” podcast series that features a consideration of Evelyn Waugh. The idea is to have a panel decide whether each episode’s subject was more evil or more genius. Previous episodes … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Discussions, Evelyn Waugh, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Podcasts, Russell Kane
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Weekend Roundup: Brideshead in the News
Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel The Sparsholt Affair is being released in the USA next week and is reviewed in the Boston Globe. The Globe’s reviewer, Priscilla Gilman, as with several in the UK, notes the book’s conections with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, BBC, Boston Globe, CBC, Meg Wolitzer, MSN, The Atlantic, The Guardian
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Evil Genius on BBC Podcast
BBC has signed comedian and Evelyn Waugh fan Russell Kane do a series of podcasts on the theme of the Evil Genius. In this, he will trace characters through history who have been geniuses but who have also done horrible … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Adam Gopnick, BBC, Russell Kane, TLS
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Weekend Roundup: Somerset in the News
Most of our Waugh news in this week’s roundup come from or relates to the county of Somerset: An Australian radio program on the ABC network announces the upcoming TV series on the career of politician Jeremy Thorpe. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Ronald Knox, Waugh Family
Tagged ABC Network, Ancedotal Evidence, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jeremy Thorpe, John Preston, Somerset Live, The Farmers Arma, The New European
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Take a Pew, or Not, as the Case May Be
In “The Times Diary” column of today’s edition of the paper, Patrick Kidd writes this about relations between Evelyn Waugh and John Betjeman: WAUGH OF WORDS Visitors to Combe Florey, the family home of Evelyn and Auberon Waugh, used to … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Jonathan Smith, New Statesman, Patrick Kidd, The Times
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Waugh Recommendation Resurfaces
An article posted on the booksblog The Literary Sisters recommends a 1953 novel which Evelyn Waugh had selected as a “best first novel” for 1953 in The Sunday Times: A largely forgotten novel now, Hugo Charteris’ A Share of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Theater
Tagged Hugo Charteris, Radio Adelaide, The Literary Sisters, The Sunday Times, TLS
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