1935 - Waugh covered the Abyssinian war for the Daily Mail. He was a hopeless journalist, but from the experience came Scoop.

'God forbid I should pry into the secrets of your soul. It is simply your public performance which grieves me.' Episode 4 of 5.

'I am too deaf for social life but perfectly sound tete a tete'. Waugh kept both his interest in the outside world and his wit.

Evelyn Waugh was a great traveller, but on a journey to Ceylon in 1954 he fell prey to mysterious and malevolent voices.

The Lygon sisters were the recipients of some of Waugh's racier letters, written during his adventures abroad as a young man.