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Category Archives: Radio Programs
Waugh Ear Trumpet to be Displayed in Glastonbury
BBC Radio Somerset has interviewed the director of the South West Heritage Trust which recently acquired one of Evelyn Waugh’s ear trumpets. This is Tom Mayberry who is interviewed by Radio Somerset’s Charlie Taylor. Mayberry explains that the ear trumpet is intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio Somerset, Church of St Edward the Confessor Kempley, ear trumpet, Hereford Times, Lygon family, Somerset Rural Life Museum, South West Heritage Trust, Tom Mayberry
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BBC to Rebroadcast Pinfold-Producing Interview
The BBC radio interview which contributed to Evelyn Waugh’s hallucinatory episodes described in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold will be rebroadcast later this week. This episode of the Frankly Speaking series will be carried on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Saturday, 29 April 2017 … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Radio Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged BBC, Frankly Speaking, Martin Stannard
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Waugh on Desert Island Discs
Reader David Lull has provided the results of a search for Evelyn Waugh on the BBC database for the entire run of its Desert Island Discs program. Waugh was never a castaway and, if ever asked, he would have surely declined. … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, castaway book selections, Desert Island Discs
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Anniversary of Waugh’s Death Marked by BBC
BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 have marked the anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death, which occurred on 10 April 1966, with the posting of a 1979 Radio 3 interview of Graham Greene. Greene explained that the two authors’ deaths that had most … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, Graham Greene
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Decline and Fall Discussed by Radio 4 and Sunday Papers
The latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Front Row featured a discussion of the network’s TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Presenter Stig Abell interviewed scriptwriter James Wood and literary critic Suzi Feay, who writes for the Financial Times. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Daily Mail, Deborah Ross, Euan Ferguson, Front Row, Hugo Rifkind, James Wood, Louis Wise, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Suzi Feay, Times newspapers
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Waugh in the Media
A discussion of Waugh’s novel Scoop takes place in a recent episode of the Federalist Radio Hour. This involves an interview of Christopher Scalia by presenter Ben Domenech. Scalia begins by explaining, inter alia, his background as an academic and nearly 8 years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged Alexander cocktail, anorexia, Christopher Scalia, Emma Thompson, Federalist Radio Hour
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Decline and Fall Previewed by Harry Mount and Saturday Review
Journalist and critic Harry Mount has previewed the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall in the Daily Mail (“Oh! What a Lovely Waugh!”): Here’s hoping the TV adaptation – written by James Wood (Rev) – brings more readers to Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Radio Programs, Television
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Daily Mail, Harry mount, Saturday Review, Tom Sutcliffe
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Vile Bodies to be Featured on BBC Radio 4
Next week’s edition of A Good Read on BBC Radio 4 will host Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken. They are identical twins and both medical doctors who have appeared in such UK TV series as Trust Me, I’m a Doctor on … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Discussions, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, Chris and Xand van Tulleken, Plymouth (UK) Herald, William Telford
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Anti-Valentine to EW from KQED
On the latest episode of The Cooler, the weekly pop-culture podcast on KQED, the theme is Valentine’s Day and opens with an extended discussion of celebrity couple break-ups. From this the commentators segue into a discussion of a letter from Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Radio Programs
Tagged KQED, The Cooler
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