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Tag Archives: Daily Mail
Waugh and Highclere (More)
The Countess of Carnarvon who presently resides with her husband at Highclere Castle in Hampshire has written a book about entertaining there. The house was the setting for the recent Downton Abbey TV series and is being open to the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Highclere Castle, Lady Fiona Carnarvon, Sibell Lygon
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Decline and Fall of the Bullingdon Club
This week’s Spectator has a feature article and podcast by Harry Mount on the parlous straits of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club. He confesses to having been a member himself but seems open minded about its likely demise: It isn’t quite dead — … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Oxford, Television
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Dusty Springfield, Harry mount, Katherine Kingsley, Spectator
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Scoop and “Fake News”
There have been several references to Waugh’s Scoop in the wake of the new concern with “fake news” arising from present US political turmoil. As anyone familiar with Waugh’s novel will know, this is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps the most poignant … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Bill Turnbull, Daily Mail, Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, Ronald E Yates
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Brideshead Reconfectioned
The Daily Mail has run a story (“It’s the Great Brideshead Bake Off!”) about a project by the new occupants of Castle Howard to remake the building in the form of a cake in an effort to promote Christmas season … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Mail
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Colossus of Snobbery
Critic and novelist D J Taylor has written a book inspired by William Thackeray entitled The New Book of Snobs, to be published later this month. An excerpt appears in the Daily Mail. This deals mostly with Taylor’s account of his own … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Daily Mail, postcodes, snobbery
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Bullingdon/Bollinger Faces Extinction
Sebastian Shakespeare in his Daily Mail gossip column reports that the Bullingdon Club at Oxford (on which Waugh based the Bollinger Club in his novel Decline and Fall) may soon die out for lack of interest: …The Buller is understood … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Sebastian Shakespeare
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Metropolitan Papers Continue to Trail D&F Production
The Daily Mail has published more photos from the Welsh location setting of the BBC’s production of Waugh’s novel Decline & Fall. Most of these feature Eva Longoria between takes as Margot Beste-Chetwynde, but there are also several of Jake … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Jake Whitehall
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Waugh in the Daily Mail
Evelyn Waugh rates two mentions in this week’s issues of the Daily Mail. Gossip columnist Ephraim Hardcastle has this takeaway from Philip Eade’s biography: Was literary giant Evelyn Waugh, who died in 1966 aged 62, a paedophile? According to a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged Daily Mail, Ephraim Hardcastle, Eva Longoria, Philip Eade
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Daily Mail on Location with Decline and Fall
The Daily Mail sent a reporter (Poppy Danby) and, more importantly, a photograper, to the location in Wales where the BBC’s production of Decline and Fall is being filmed. The results are posted in the Mailonline edition and contain more photos … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, Wales
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail
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Eade Biography Reviewed in Daily Mail
Marcus Berkmann has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh in today’s Daily Mail. Berkmann is a freelance journalist and has also written widely for TV and radio as well as producing several books on subjects ranging from sport to Star Trek. … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Marcus Berkmann, Philip Eade
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