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Category Archives: Auberon Waugh
Naim Attallah Interviews Harold Acton
Writer and publisher Naim Attallah has posted on his weblog what looks like the complete text of his interview of Harold Acton in 1990. This was only a few years before Acton’s death in 1994. Acton and Waugh were friends … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews
Tagged Harold Acton, Naim Attallah, Quartet Books
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Too Much #MeToo?: Bring Back Bron
In a recent issue of the Spectator, Matthew Parris longs for the return of Auberon Waugh. Parris feels that Auberon’s humorous approach to controversial matters is needed to bring some balance and reason to the debate over women’s rights in … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged #MeToo, Matthew Parris, The Spectator, Women's Rights
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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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Auberon Waugh and Anthony Powell
This week’s edition of The Spectator carries a story by Nicholas Shakespeare about his involvement in the 1990 dispute between Auberon Waugh and Anthony Powell over Auberon’s negative review of Powell’s collected literary journalism (Miscellaneous Verdicts) in the Sunday Telegraph. … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Nicholas Skakespeare, The Spectator
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New Year’s Roundup
A recent review in The Times of Tina Brown’s new book The Vanity Fair Diaries opens with this: “Where you see zippy, zesty lesbian Jewesses bubbling with new ideas, I see plodding, ill-mannered, bottomlessly earnest boobies . . . I do not … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Scoop, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Daily Mail, Guardian, honours list, Paul Bradbury, The Times, Tina Brown, Total Croatia News
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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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Waughs Feature in Spectator Strip Cartoon
Evelyn Waugh and his son Auberon feature in this week’s strip cartoon in the Spectator’s “Title Stories” column. The cartoon is by Gary Dexter and is entitled “Writers’ Letters: Evelyn Waugh on Auberon Waugh.” The first panel shows an accurate … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Letters, Newspapers, Portraits
Tagged Alexander Waugh, Gary Dexter, Martin Luther, Reza Aslan, Strip Cartoons, The Spectator
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Downside Abbey Features in New BBC Series
BBC 4 yesterday transmitted the first in a series called Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery. The subject of this first episode was Downside Abbey: The first film is set in Downside, a spectacular neo-gothic monastery set in the beautiful valleys … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Downside Abbey
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Three Generations of Waughs in The Oldie
Various Waughs (and their associates) are scattered throughout the pages of this month’s issue of The Oldie. The leading feature article by Alan Thomas is about the Bright Young People and opens with a reference to Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies: … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC Arena, Daily Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare, Selina Hastings, The Oldie
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Another Waugh Writer
Another member of the Waugh family has turned to writing. This is Nathaniel Waugh, Evelyn’s grandson and second son of Auberon. According to a 2003 story in the Guardian by Alexander Chancellor, Nathaniel had recently moved to France from Shepherd’s Bush … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged France, Guardian, Nathaniel Waugh, The Oldie
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