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Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

Nickolas Grace

Philip Eade

Libby Spurrier

Celia de Wolff

Book of the Week: Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited: Episode 2

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Episode 2

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 2

Philip Eade revisits the life of one of England's greatest novelists using family archives

With new access to family archive, Philip Eade revisits the life of one of our greatest novelists, Evelyn Waugh. Read by Nickolas Grace.

Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and revealing biography.

Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and there is new personal testimony from those who knew and worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, presenting new details of his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime career.

Read by Nickolas Grace
Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Directed by Celia de Wolff

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Philip Eade's revealing biography of the celebrated English novelist

Philip Eade's revealing biography of the celebrated English novelist, using previously unseen letters and new personal testimony. Read by Nickolas Grace.

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