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Tag Archives: BBC
Fleabag and Julia Flyte
The final episode of Fleabag’s second TV series was broadcast yesterday on BBC. The series has occasioned more than the usual amount of comment in the press. See earlier post. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Serena Davies has high praise … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Fleabag, Graham Greene, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Serena Davies
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Roundup: Fleabag and Brexit
—The Times earlier this week carried a review of an ongoing BBC TV series called Fleabag, currently in its 2nd season. The review by Ann Marie Hourihane opens with this: God is what you’ve got left when you’re done with sex; … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Aldous Huxley, BBC, scoop.co.nz, Selina Hastings, The New Yorker, The Times, TLS
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Brideshead Theme in Syfy TV Series
The internet newspaper Vox.com has posted an article about a long-running TV series on the Syfy Channel. This is based on the fantasy novels of Lev Grossman called The Magicians Trilogy and is now in its fourth season on Syfy. … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Lancashire Telegraph, Lev Grossman, Lytham Hall, Syfy Channel, The Magicians Trilogy, Vox.com
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Roundup: Daleks and Poputchiks
–The BBC has announced plans to issue a print version of a 1980s Dr Who episode that contains a plot line inspired by Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is explained on a website that tracks this sort of thing (BleedingCool.com) … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, Dr Who, Guardian, San Diego Reader, University Challenge
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Boxing Day Roundup
–The Guardian in its “Top Tens” books column this week features “books on booze”. The selection by Henry Jeffreys is explained as “not a collection of books about drunkenness or alcoholism, though both feature. Rather, it is a celebration of those … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, Guardian, Lapham's Quarterly
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A Tale of Two Adaptations
The popular culture criticism website PopMatters.com has reposted a 2006 review of the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This review by Bill Gibon focuses more on the director Tony Richardson’s version than on Waugh’s story. He … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Television, The Loved One
Tagged ArchitectureAU.com, BBC, PopMatters.com, Tony Richardson
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The Waugh Before Christmas
–The Daily Mail includes Waugh in a Christmas quiz set by humorist Craig Brown. Here’s the question: 10) Match the Christmas with the participant: a) ‘The presents I got were — as always — far inferior in every way to … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Paris Review, THE
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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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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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Waugh’s Signature, Favorite Dublin Pub, Lost in Translation, Etc.
–Duncan McLaren has posted a short note on Waugh’s change in his signature at an early stage in his career. This is posted on his website under WAUGH BITES. McLaren is able to triangulate that change in the early 1930’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop
Tagged BBC, Crisis magazine, Dincan McLaren, Dublin pubs
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