Tag Archives: BBC

Two Waugh Novels Make BBC’s Top 100 List

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC recently conducted a poll of literary critics outside the UK to determine their choices of the 100 greatest British novels. Novels written by Irish or other non-British authors were excluded. The poll included 82 critics who were each asked to name … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Round Britain Quiz

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Waugh novel was part of a question in a recent Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. The teams were Scotland and Wales and this question was put to the Scotland  team: Q8 (from Stephen Gore) In which apparently unproductive source … Continue reading →

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Telegraph Marks Arena’s 40th Anniversary

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Telegraph has marked the 40th anniversary of BBC’s award-winning arts documentary series Arena by selecting what it regards as its 10 best programs. Among the Telegraph’s top 10, no. 4 is the 1987 production entitled “The Waugh Trilogy”: With Granada’s … Continue reading →

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Dominic Sandbrook Revisits Brideshead

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC is currently running a series on the history of British post-war popular culture. It is presented by historian and writer, Dominic Sandbrook, and entitled Let Us Entertain You. The second episode (“In With the Old”) was devoted to the … Continue reading →

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Whispering Glades and Tranquil Repose

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Argonaut, a regional newspaper covering the west side of Los Angeles, has published an interview with art director Mike Salisbury who has worked in film, broadcast and print media and lives in Venice, CA. The interviewer gets a rise out … Continue reading →

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BBC Does Longleat

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC has produced a documentary series on Longleat House and its owners. This is All Change at Longleat and it focuses on the current Marquess of Bath and his son, Ceawlin (aka Viscount Weymouth). Lord Bath is not a newcomer to publicity having … Continue reading →

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Waugh Among the Bohemians

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC is currently running a cultural documentary entitled How to be a Bohemian. It is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell and is broadcast on Monday nights over the BBC4 channel. The first episode traced the history of artistic “bohemians” from … Continue reading →

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Naming Characters: Waugh and Fleming

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In an article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Christopher Howse compares the practice of Ian Fleming and Evelyn Waugh to use the names of real persons as characters in their works: “There’s nowt so queer as names.” In Fleming’s James Bond novels, Howse cites … Continue reading →

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Max Hastings Watches the BBC’s Face-to-Face Interviews

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In this week’s Spectator, Max Hastings, former Daily Telegraph editor, comments on his viewing of DVDs of the BBC’s Face to Face interviews, which he had recently been sent as a gift. The recordings have been circulation since 2009, and it … Continue reading →

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Novelist Joanna Trollope Salutes Evelyn Waugh

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

In a BBC TV interview broadcast last Sunday (March 23, 2014) which continues to be available over the internet on BBC iPlayer, Mark Lawson spoke with novelist Joanna Trollope about her writing career.  She is distantly related to the novelist … Continue reading →

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