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Tag Archives: BBC
Production to Start on BBC Decline and Fall Series
Production will start in Wales next month on the BBC’s three-part TV adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. Comedian Jack Whitehall has already been signed to play Paul Pennyfeather and negotiations are nearly concluded with actress Eva Longoria … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Eva Longoria, Jack Whitehall
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Waughs in Magazines
Two recent magazine articles are devoted to Waughs. The current issue of the Tablet contains an article entitled “Scoop revisited.” This is by critic and novelist D.J. Taylor and relates to the 1960 BBC Face-to-Face TV interview that was recently rebroadcast on the … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Society, Interviews, Letters, Newsletter
Tagged BBC, Clive James, D.J.Taylor, John Freeman, Mark McGinness, Quadrant, The Tablet
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BBC Video Credits Waugh with Country House Revival
The BBC has posted a 3.25 minute video about the revival of interest in the English country house. Here’s a link (don’t be alarmed if it opens with an ad). Narrated by art historian Alistair Sooke, it begins with recognition of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Film, Television Programs
Tagged Alistair Sooke, BBC, Castle Howard
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Wodehouse Redivivus
A book blog has posted an article describing Evelyn Waugh’s role in the re-establishment of the reputation of P.G. Wodehouse. Waugh’s actions are compared with previous efforts of George Bernard Shaw on behalf of Henrik Ibsen and Walker Percy who … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Radio Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, P.G.Wodehouse
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Name Confusion (More)
The BBC has called in Professor of English Literature Valentine Cunningham at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to discuss the issue of name confusion stirred up by the Time magazine flap. They chose Prof. Cunningham, author of British Writers of the Thirties, thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Interviews, Oxford, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, name confusion, New York Magazine, Valentine Cunningham
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Basil Seal Rides Yet Again
D.J. Taylor in the Independent announces low expectations for the BBC’s plans to revive its 1970s sit. com. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. The plan is to have the 74 year old Michael Crawford reprise his role as youthfully naive Frank Spencer among a … Continue reading
Posted in Basil Seal Rides Again, Black Mischief, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Television Programs, Work Suspended
Tagged Anthony Powell, BBC, D.J.Taylor, Independent newspaper, Michael Crawford, Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
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War, Peace and Brideshead
In yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Harry Mount declares the recent BBC adaptation of War and Peace by Andrew Davies to be a failure. This is inevitable, he writes, when an attempt is made to compress a massive 19th Century novel, written originally in a foreign language, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Daily Telegraph, Harry mount, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Adapter of Brideshead Film Profiled in Independent
Andrew Davies, probably the most prominent adapter of books into TV series is profiled in a recent issue of the Independent newspaper. This article is inspired by his latest script which adapted Tolstoy’s War and Peace into a 6-hour series on … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Independent newspaper, War and Peace
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