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Tag Archives: BBC
Waugh Among the Bohemians
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
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Film, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, How to be a Bohemian, Stephan Tennant, Stephen Fry, Victoria Coren Mitchell
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Naming Characters: Waugh and Fleming
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
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Conferences, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, Work Suspended
Tagged BBC, C.R.M.F. Cruttwell, Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, Donat Gallagher, Ian Fleming
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Max Hastings Watches the BBC’s Face-to-Face Interviews
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
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Face to Face, John Freeman, Max Hastings, Spectator, Tom Driberg
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Novelist Joanna Trollope Salutes Evelyn Waugh
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
Posted in Interviews, Miscellaneous, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, character sources, Joanna Trollope, Mark Lawson
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Waugh as a savior of Victorian heritage
In a new BBC Four series that started Sunday night, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry, art historian and critic Jonathan Meades cites Evelyn Waugh as one of the leaders of the movement to preserve the Victorian heritage in art … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Television Programs
Tagged architecture, BBC, Brutalism, Jonathan Meades, Victorian Society
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BBC Radio 4’s Sword of Honour wins at 2014 BBC Radio Drama Awards
Jeremy Front’s dramatization of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, broadcast in seven episodes on BBC Radio 4 last year, won Best Audio Drama (Adaptation) at the 2014 BBC Radio Drama Awards held yesterday in London.
Posted in Events, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Jeremy Front, Radio 4, Radio Drama Awards
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Waugh’s last interviewer dies at 90
Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard died on January 2 in Suffolk. She was the last person to conduct a broadcast interview of Evelyn Waugh. This was for the BBC Monitor documentary series and was transmitted in February 1964. According to her … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television, Television Programs
Tagged All Change, BBC, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Face to Face, Martin Amis, Monitor, Slipstream, The Cazalet Chonicles
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The Culture Show: Writers in the Blitz
A recent episode of the BBC’s series The Culture Show (November 6, 2013), entitled Wars of the Heart, dealt with the experience of several writers during the Blitz. The presenter was James Runcie. The focus was on Graham Greene and … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Documentaries, London, Sightings, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Graham Greene, Henry Yorke, James Runcie, Lara Feigel, The Culture Show, The Love-Charm of Bombs, Wars of the Heart
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Seven days left to listen to Episode 2/7 of BBC Radio 4’s Sword of Honour
This is the last reminder we’ll be posting about the weekly broadcasts of BBC Radio 4’s adaptation of the Sword of Honour trilogy. New episodes are broadcast on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. UK time, and you have seven days from … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Fiction, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged BBC, Radio 4
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Round Britain Quiz
Remember the difference between standard American and English cryptic crosswords? For the answer “dumb,” an American crossword might provide the clue, “Unable to speak,” whereas an English one would say, “Unspeakably stupid.” If you like your crossword clues a little … Continue reading
