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World Cup Roundup
–A recent book with a Waugh theme was listed (with reservations) among the Daily Telegraph year’s best biographies: Daisy Dunn’s Not Far From Brideshead (W&N, £20) is less satisfactory. What should be a dynamite intellectual history of how three great classicists – Gilbert … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged Castle Howard, Channel 4, Church Times, Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, The Times newspaper
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Castle Howard on Channel 4
The UK’s Channel 4 has rebroadcast the episode of Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes that covers the visit to Castle Howard. This was first broadcast as the second episode of the program’s first series on 16 August 2016. Spencer makes only … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Television Programs
Tagged Castle Howard, Channel 4, Phil Spencer
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Update: Churchill’s Secret Affair
Channel 4’s documentary Churchill’s Secret Affair broadcast last night differs in several important details from the account published in the Daily Mail last week. See previous post. Several experts contribute to the documentary. From our perspective the most important are … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Documentaries, Newspapers, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Doris Castlerosse, Happy Warriors, John Colville, Randolph Churchill, Warren Dockter, Winston Churchill
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Weekend Roundup: French Connections
In a Times review of Nina Caplan’s new book The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, reviewer Michael Henderson includes this as his opening: “O for a beaker full of the warm south!” Keats, who died in Rome, gave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Channel 4, Cyril Connolly, Financial Times, France, Maclean's Magazine, Sonia Orwell, The Times, Winston Churchill
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“Churchill’s Secret Affair” to Air in TV Documentary
The Daily Mail has a feature length story on what may have been a secret (but brief) affair between Lady Castlerosse (born in humble circumstances as Doris Delevigne) and Winston Churchill. This took place (if it did) in spring 1930 … Continue reading