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Tag Archives: Daily Mail
Radio Adaptation of Decline & Fall Rebroadcast
BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast its two-episode adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall starting this Thursday. This adaptation by Jeremy Front was first transmitted in 2015, and this is apparently its first rebroadcast. Front has also adapted other … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Newspapers, Radio, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Jeremy Front, Player.fm
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Roundup: Autumn in Canberra
–As Summer turns to Fall in the Southern Hemisphere, The Canberra Times is reminded of Evelyn Waugh. This is in an article written by Ian Warden who is not impressed by Autumnal colors: As an aesthete who cares about the looks … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, National Review, Nigeness, The Article, The Canberra Times
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Last Orders at Mrs Roberts’
The Daily Mail reports that a Waugh landmark in North Wales is about to disappear. This is the Fair View Inn in Llanddulas which was the model for the pub in Llanabba run by Mrs Roberts (but never otherwise identified … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Daily Mail, Fair View Inn, Llandulas
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Roundup: Laura Waugh’s Lent
–In the Guardian, William Keegan compares the Brexit chaos to Waugh’s Decline and Fall: In order to switch off from Brexit in the evenings, your correspondent has taken to re-reading his favourite novels. Yet there is no escape! At the … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Scoop, Waugh Family
Tagged Alma Guillermoprieto, Brexit, Columbia Journalism Review, Daily Mail, Dave Wood, Guardian, Laura Waugh, The Oldie
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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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Sunday Roundup: from Rails to Balls
–The new railroad line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa is featured in a recent illustrated story in the Irish Times. This project was financed by the Chinese and was placed into full operation earlier this year. The service is now … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Remote People, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Catholic Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Times, TLS
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Post-Election Roundup
Having recovered from the news deluge of the USA midterm elections, we can now return to coverage of matters Wavian: –The big story in British journalism earlier this week was Paul Dacre’s valedictory address as editor of the Daily Mail, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Herald (Chicago), Daily Mail, History Today, Image, kedgeree, Paul Dacre, Radio Spada
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Mid-October Roundup
–The US cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has announced two broadcasts of The Loved One in November and December. They have also published what look like they may be expanded program notes (by Jeff Stafford) for the occasion: In … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Guyana Times International, longreads.com, Room of Joy, The Scotsman, The Times, Turner Classic Movies
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Charm Offensive
In the Wall Street Journal a review by Thomas Vinciguerra of Joseph Epstein’s new book Charm: The Elusive Enchantment begins with this: There was no avoiding it. On page 26 of Joseph Epstein’s excursion into the nature of charm, there … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged BBC, Bullingdon Club, Charm, Daily Mail, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Wall Street Journal
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