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Image of rare Scoop copy, courtesy M Sutcliffe

Book Group: Scoop

Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on March 27, 2015

How can a book be so current and so dated at the same time? This was at the forefront of our minds as we met to discuss Waugh’s 1938 parody of Fleet Street and the world of foreign correspondents. The book is drawn from Waugh’s own experiences as a journalist in Abyssinia, but far more […]

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Film poster for Tony Richardson's The Loved One (1965)

Waugh and the Oliviers

Posted by Rebecca Moore in Waugh and Words on March 9, 2015

In light of the V&A recently making available around 200 previously unpublished letters between Laurence Olivier and his then wife Vivien Leigh I decided to do some searching of Waugh’s letters and diaries to see if he ever referred to the pair. Along with references to his attendance at the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus […]

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