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Tag Archives: Frederic Raphael
Roundup: 80th D-Day Anniversary
–The BBC posted an article on WWII parachute training in connection with its observance last week of the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings. Here’s an excerpt: …All the British paratroopers who landed in the early hours [of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Internet, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Frederic Raphael, OLL, The American Conservative, The Jewish Chronicle
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Céline, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole
Frederic Raphael is still best known for the TV adaptation of his own 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes, which is often compared with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the popular and critical success … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Celine, Frederic Raphael, Guardian, Lancashire Post, Lloyd Cole, Muriel Spark, The Commotions, The Glittering Prizes, TLS
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