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Category Archives: Waugh Family
Estate of Waugh
In this week’s New Statesman, lead book reviewer Leo Robson expands his horizons to consider the question of how literary estates have affected literary history. There are four books listed as the subject of the review, but these are barely … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Leo Robson, Martin Stannard, New Statesman
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Waugh Lecture at Lancing
The Lancing College website has posted a report of last month’s Evelyn Waugh Lecture. This year’s speaker was OL Sir Tim Rice (1958-62) who recalled how events at Lancing had helped shape his career as a lyricist: Tim admitted that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Lectures, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Sir Tim Rice, William Boyd
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Music of Time
The BBC has undertaken a review of classical music composed in the years 1918-2018. This is entitled “Our Classical Century” and includes recorded performances and commentary on both television (BBC4) and radio (BBC Radio 3). Selections will also be featured … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC, Daily Mail, Modern Age
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Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS
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Bullying in the House?
In the 1960 BBC interview of Evelyn Waugh in the Face to Face series, presenter John Freeman posed a series of questions about Waugh’s career at Oxford. Among them are these relating to his children: Q. Are any of your … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Christ Church, Guardian
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Roundup: Foreign Press
–In the German paper Die Welt, there is a short review of Brideshead Revisited (in German Wiedersehen mit Brideshead) by Denis Schenk. After quoting from the novel how Charles and Sebastian come to be acquainted, the article continues: There is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Diario Cordoba, Die Welt, Radio Spada, Spanish Civil War
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Upcoming Lectures: Lancing, Leicester and Langport
Several lectures have been announced that may be of interest to our readers in the UK: —Lancing College has announced this year’s Evelyn Waugh lecturer: The Evelyn Waugh Lecture was started in 2008 as a means of thanking all members … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Lancing, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Lancing College, Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Nigel Wood, Sir Tim Rice, Somerset County Gazette
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Battle of the Oxfords
The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Clare Asquith, Frome Times
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Roundup: Hat Trick in The Spectator
There is a diverse assortment of cites to Waugh’s works this week, with The Spectator scoring a hat trick in its various editions: —The Spectator has a review of a new book that attacks “modernist” architecture. The book is entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged ANZ LitLover, Catholic Herald, Chippendale, Modernist Architecture, Public Schools, The Spectator
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TLS Reviews Early CWEW Volumes
In the latest issue of TLS, Paula Byrne reviews the first five volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. These were published over several months late last year and early this. Byrne is the author, inter alia, of what … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martin Stannard, Paula Byrne, TLS
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