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Category Archives: Television Programs
Special Thorpe Trial Bonus Tonite on BBC4
Following tonight’s broadcast on BBC1 of the final episode of the docudrama relating to the Jeremy Thorpe scandal (A Very English Scandal), BBC4 will broadcast a previously suppressed Panorama episode relating to the trial. According to the BBC’s website: In … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Television Programs
Tagged BBC Panorama, Jeremy Thorpe Trial, Radio Times
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Happy Warriors to Broadcast
A London theater website (mytheatremates.com) has announced that a performance of Happy Warriors, the play about Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill in WWII Yugoslavia, will be recorded for broadcast. In connection with this, tickets for the performance on Friday, 13 … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, London, Television Programs, Theater, World War II
Tagged broadcast, Happy Warriors, James Hugh Macdonald, London Live, MyTheatreMates.com, Paul Vale, thestage.co.uk, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
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From African Kleptocracy to Spark’s Legacy
A feature length article in the Australian edition of the Spectator deals with the political flap over policy toward immigration of white South African farrmers into Australia. This is entitled “Kleptocracy on the Cape” by Thomas Jones and opens with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Africa, Guardian, Leo Robson, Muriel Spark, New Statesman, Rachel Cooke, Spectator (Australia)
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Brideshead: Crime Story, Aesthetes and a Scientist
The second season of the TV series American Crime Story is nearing its end on the FX cable channel in the USA. It has just begun on BBC and has reached Episode 3 this week. It is entitled the Assassination … Continue reading
Update: Churchill’s Secret Affair
Channel 4’s documentary Churchill’s Secret Affair broadcast last night differs in several important details from the account published in the Daily Mail last week. See previous post. Several experts contribute to the documentary. From our perspective the most important are … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Documentaries, Newspapers, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Doris Castlerosse, Happy Warriors, John Colville, Randolph Churchill, Warren Dockter, Winston Churchill
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Weekend Roundup: French Connections
In a Times review of Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Cyril Connolly, Financial Times, France, Maclean's Magazine, Sonia Orwell, The Times, Winston Churchill
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Armies of the Night; Writers on the Right
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has posted a 1968 TV interview of novelist Norman Mailer by William F Buckley, Jr. This was in Buckley’s Firing Line series which went out for many years on PBS. The subject of the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged Norman Mailer, Vietnam War, William F Buckley Jr
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“Churchill’s Secret Affair” to Air in TV Documentary
The Daily Mail has a feature length story on what may have been a secret (but brief) affair between Lady Castlerosse (born in humble circumstances as Doris Delevigne) and Winston Churchill. This took place (if it did) in spring 1930 … Continue reading
Next Witness: Call Captain Grimes
Alex Renton recently wrote a book about pederasty in British prep schools and public schools called Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class. He has now made a documentary about the same subject which aired … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Alex Renton, BBC, boarding schools, ITV, Sherborne, The Sunday Times
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Waugh at 60: BBC 1964 Monitor Interview Available Online
A link has become available to the 1964 TV broadcast of the BBC’s Monitor interview of Evelyn Waugh by novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. The link is to the BBC Archives via Facebook (don’t ask me how that works or how … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Monitor
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