Tag Archives: The Times

Waugh and George Steer (More)

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has published a feature length story on British correspondent George Steer to mark the 80th anniversary of the attack on Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Steer, reporting for The Times, is credited with … Continue reading →

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Biffing: A History

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Today’s Times notes the issuance of the UK paperback edition of a WWII history which has Wavian overtones. This is The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill’s Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat by Giles Milton. In his brief notice, Lawrence James explains: The Castrator, … Continue reading →

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Times Previews Episode 3 of Decline and Fall

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times has provided a detailed preview of tonight’s final episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. Not surprisingly, given the darker contents of the latter part of the novel, the preview by James Jackson finds … Continue reading →

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Times Review of Episode 2

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Andrew Billen writing in today’s Times has nothing but praise for the second episode of BBC’s Decline and Fall adaptation: On Friday the BBC’s adaptor James Wood did very well keeping our interest now that the action has moved to Margot Beste-Chetwynde … Continue reading →

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Episode 2 of Decline and Fall to Air Tonight

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Several of the papers have previewed the second episode of Decline and Fall which will be transmitted this evening on BBC One at 9pm. The most detailed advance description of this episode appears in the “Viewing Guide” column by Ed Potton … Continue reading →

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Papers Praise BBC’s Decline and Fall

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian all make tonight’s first episode of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall recommended viewing. The notice in the Times’s “Viewing Guide” by James Jackson is the most detailed: Alongside that other academia satire, … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh, Travel Writer

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Several recent articles remind us of Waugh’s pre-eminence as a travel writer in the 1930s, a time when foreign travel was still something exotic. The adventure travel magazine Avaunt has added Waugh’s Ninety-Two Days (1934) to its reading list: This account of … Continue reading →

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Letter to Times Cites Waugh Defense of Wodehouse

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In a letter to The Times (headed “Wodehouse’s World”) arising from reports of the archiving of the papers of P G Wodehouse at the British Library (see earlier post), a reader has added Evelyn Waugh to the list of those who … Continue reading →

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Waugh Dramatization Slotted for Spring Transmission

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times has announced a list of outstanding TV dramas scheduled to air in the New Year. Among them is the adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall to be broadcast in the Spring. (See earlier posts.) Here’s The Times’ description: … Continue reading →

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Waugh Quoted in Times Article on Brexit

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times for 11 October carries an article castigating those members of the Conservative Party who are now backing away from the anti-immigrant groundswell that carried the day for the Leave faction who led the campaign for Brexit. The unsigned … Continue reading →

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