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Tag Archives: Spectator
Peter Watson: Biography of Everard’s Angel
This week’s Spectator reviews a biography of Pater Watson, probably best known to Waugh fans as the financial backer of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine during WWII and early postwar austerity. The magazine and Connolly are satirized as Survival and Everard … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One, Work Suspended, World War II
Tagged Craig Brown, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, Mail on Sunday, Peter Watson, Sofka Zinovieff, Spectator
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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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Complete archives of The Tablet and The Catholic Herald now online
The Tablet and The Catholic Herald have made available online and searchable their archives of past issues. The Spectator did this last year, benefiting greatly Evelyn Waugh enthusiasts and also admirers of the work of his son Auberon, a fixture … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Catholic Herald, Spectator, Tablet
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Evelyn Waugh’s ear trumpet vs. £4,000 worth of electronic hearing aids
Alexander Chancellor tries Waugh’s notorious ear trumpet, and is impressed: On Christmas Day, in the Somerset home of my daughter Eliza, and her husband, Alexander Waugh, Evelyn’s grandson, I was offered the novelist’s old ear trumpet to try. I am … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Chattels & Movables, Sightings
Tagged Alexander Chancellor, ear trumpet, Spectator
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Maugham, Ford, Waugh, and the experience of war
In The Spectator‘s Book Blog, Steven McGregor discusses Somerset Maugham’s The Hero, Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, and Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy in the light of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a follow-up post, David … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Fiction, Sword of Honour
Tagged Afghanistan, David Blackburn, Ford Madox Ford, Iraq, Parade's End, Somerset Maugham, Spectator, Steven McGregor, The Hero
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