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Evelyn Waugh

The life and literary legacy of Evelyn Waugh on the 100th anniversary of his birth

‘Great writer, terrible man’. The author of ‘Brideshead Revisited’,  Evelyn Waugh is remembered by his grandson Alexander Waugh and Artemis Cooper,  granddaughter of Waugh’s lifelong friend Diane Cooper. They both challenge this view of the writer.  Opinions are also heard from Graham Greene, Christopher Sykes and Cyril Connolly,

This is a programme from the ±«Óătv World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2003.

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23 minutes

±«Óătv World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project