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Tag Archives: Face to Face
Waugh Night on BBC Four and Queer Stately Homes
–The BBC has announced the TV programming for next week that will include two Evelyn Waugh events on Thursday, 27 August. The first will be a rebroadcast of the 2008 theatrical film version of Brideshead Revisited, co-produced by the BBC … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC Four, Country Houses, Daily Telegraph, Face to Face
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BBC: Waugh and Eliot
There will be a program on BBC4 tonight that may be of interest to our readers. This is “Return to TS Eliotland,” presented by A N Wilson. It will air at 9pm and will be available on BBC iPlayer thereafter. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Complete Works, Documentaries, Interviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged AN Wilson, BBC, Face to Face, Sunday Telegraph, TS Eliot
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BBC to Rebroadcast Waugh Radio Classics
BBC Radio 4 has posted schedules for next week in which two Waugh radio programs will be rebroadcast. The first is the 7 episode series of Sword of Honour from 2013. This was dramatized by Jeremy Front, whose adaptation won … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Radio, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Face to Face, Jeremy Front, John Freeman
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John Freeman (1915-2014)
We’re late in observing this sad event. John Freeman died on December 20, 2014. Here’s his obituary from the Daily Telegraph. Freeman was Waugh’s interviewer for an episode of the BBC’s Face to Face series (described in a recent post).
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Max Hastings Watches the BBC’s Face-to-Face Interviews
In this week’s Spectator, Max Hastings, former Daily Telegraph editor, comments on his viewing of DVDs of the BBC’s Face to Face interviews, which he had recently been sent as a gift. The recordings have been circulation since 2009, and it … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Face to Face, John Freeman, Max Hastings, Spectator, Tom Driberg
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Waugh’s last interviewer dies at 90
Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard died on January 2 in Suffolk. She was the last person to conduct a broadcast interview of Evelyn Waugh. This was for the BBC Monitor documentary series and was transmitted in February 1964. According to her … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Letters, Television, Television Programs
Tagged All Change, BBC, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Face to Face, Martin Amis, Monitor, Slipstream, The Cazalet Chonicles
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Evelyn Waugh’s 1960 Face to Face interview with John Freeman
In June 1960 Evelyn Waugh was interviewed by John Freeman for the BBC television program Face to Face. Although during the interview Waugh isn’t exactly bursting with bonhomie and appears more than a little ill at ease (it was apparently … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960, BBC, Face to Face, Joan Bakewell, John Freeman, YouTube
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