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Tag Archives: Daily Mail
Pre-Easter Roundup
–Roger Lewis has posted another reading list for the current epidemic. This is in the Daily Mail and is entitled “Keep laughing and read on.” Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop is among those recommended: William Boot, who contributes nature columns on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Australian Financial News, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Guardian, L'Officiel, Ralph Lauren, Southern Utah University, TLS
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Waugh and the Marquesses of Bath
The 7th Marquess of Bath (1932-2020) died last Saturday. His name was Alexander Thynn, and he was the son of parents, both of whom were friends of Evelyn Waugh dating back to his Oxford and Bright Young People days. The … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daphne Fielding, Marquess of Bath
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A Handful of Dust on BBC Radio 4
The BBC will rebroadcast a 1996 two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. According to the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine radio listings: The critics gave the thumbs down to this Evelyn Waugh novel when it was published … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, National Review
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Waugh Podcasts
The quarterly literary magazine Slightly Foxed has announced that its next podcast will be devoted to Evelyn Waugh. This will be posted on their website, probably on 15 April. Details such as topics, participants, time, etc. do not seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Aubrey Beardsley, BBC, Daily Mail, Slightly Foxed
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The Loved One Meets the Wuhan Coronavirus
–A blogger posting as “Sapper” traces the influence of Waugh’s writing about Los Angeles in the post war 1940s to what may be the first of several New Yorker essays by English writer and satirist Geoff Dyer, now a resident … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Geoff Dyer, leafly.com, New Yorker, The American Conservative
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Life in the Time of Wuhan Coronavirus
There are several articles containing recommended reading for the period of confinement during the present epidemic. But perhaps the most thoughtful is that in (odd as it may seem) the Daily Mail. This is by Roger Alton and relates to … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Non-fiction, Research, Scoop
Tagged Adam Kucharski, Book of the Week, Daily Mail, Wuhan Coronavirus
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Roundup of Updates
–The Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition carries a story by Tobias Grey about the upcoming exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works. This opens on 12 March at the National Portrait Gallery in London. See earlier posts. After describing the genesis of … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Waugh Family
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Hexham Book Festival, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Waugh and the Sitwells
The Daily Mail reports in Sebastian Shakespeare’s gossip column that the Sitwell family is selling off one of its principal properties: The Sitwells were once among the most celebrated of society families, inspiring the quip that they belonged to ‘the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Renishaw Hall, Sitwell Family, Weston Hall
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Shrove Tuesday Roundup
–The BBC has announced plans to release a collection of audio recordings of Jeremy Front’s radio adaptations of several works by Evelyn Waugh. This will include Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall as well as several others not identified specifically … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Audiobooks, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Radio, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, LitHub.com, Sally Rooney, The Times
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