"Which author wrote the classic novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" later made into a television series?"
"of 10 CDs. In 2008 ""Brideshead Revisited"" was developed into a feature film of the same title, with Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, and Ben Whishaw as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The movie was directed by Julian Jarrold and adapted by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies. Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, including his friendship with the Flytes, a"
"seven months. Early into the period, ITV decided two-hour episodes were too lengthy, and Sturridge was forced to restructure the entire serial, beginning and ending it with expanded episodes that would bookend nine episodes running slightly less than an hour each. Brideshead Revisited (TV serial) Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Most of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge; a few sequences were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The serial is an adaptation of the novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945) by"
"100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 45 on the BBC survey The Big Read. In 2005, it was chosen by ""Time"" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. In 2009, ""Newsweek"" magazine listed it as one of the 100 best books of world literature. In 1981 ""Brideshead Revisited"" was adapted as an 11-episode TV serial, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The bulk of the serial was"
"America. There had been earlier television treatment of Waugh's fiction, as ""Sword of Honour"" had been serialised by the BBC in 1967, but the impact of Granada's ""Brideshead"" was much wider. Its nostalgic depiction of a vanished form of Englishness appealed to the American mass market; ""Time"" magazine's TV critic described the series as ""a novel... made into a poem"", and listed it among the ""100 Best TV Shows of All Time"". There have been further cinematic Waugh adaptations: ""A Handful of Dust"" in 1988, ""Vile Bodies"" (filmed as ""Bright Young Things"") in 2003 and ""Brideshead"" again in 2008. These"
"Castle Howard Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York. It is a private residence, and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle. It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional ""Brideshead"", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ""Brideshead Revisited"" and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema. Today, it is part of the"
"Jane Mulvagh Jane Mulvagh is an Irish-born journalist and social historian, specialising in British history. She is best known for her history of Madresfield Court, the English country house upon which Evelyn Waugh based his novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". Mulvagh has Irish roots and was educated at an English convent before going up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read History. Her early interest in fashion history led to eight years at ""Vogue"", as a fashion historian and features writer. Mulvagh completed the ""Vogue History of Twentieth Century Fashion"" (Viking Penguin) in 1988. She left ""Vogue"" the following year and subsequently wrote"
"Sir John Soane's Museum in London and The Royal Oak Foundation Annual Lecture Tour in the United States in 2009. She has lectured at Oxford University (Harris Manchester College), Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Oxford Literary Festival. Jane Mulvagh Jane Mulvagh is an Irish-born journalist and social historian, specialising in British history. She is best known for her history of Madresfield Court, the English country house upon which Evelyn Waugh based his novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". Mulvagh has Irish roots and was educated at an English convent before going up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read History. Her early interest in"
"serial ""Brideshead Revisited"" as the seventh favorite series. He then pointed out that it had not aired as a part of ""Masterpiece Theatre"". Rather, it had aired as a part of the PBS series entitled ""Great Performances"". Masterpiece (TV series) Masterpiece (formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre) is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston. It premiered on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly prime time drama series. The series has presented numerous acclaimed British productions. Many of these are produced by the BBC, but the line-up has also included programs shown"
"""Becoming Jane"" was released. ""The Washington Times"" stated that Jarrold's direction ""has made a witty, beautiful film. His technical achievement is no small matter, with nice, long tracking shots and clever focus tricks."" The following year, Jarrold directed the first film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's iconic story ""Brideshead Revisited"", ""one of the great English novels which has never been filmed,"" according to producer Kevin Loader. It starred Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, and Michael Gambon. About the novel's status as an unchangeable classic, Jarrold stated that ""there are people who are obsessive and obviously that's going to be daunting"
"Madresfield Court Madresfield Court, Madresfield, near Malvern, Worcestershire is a country house. The house has been the home of the Lygon family for nearly six centuries, and has passed only by inheritance since the 12th century. The present building is largely a Victorian reconstruction, although the origins of the present house are from the 16th century, and the site has been occupied since Anglo-Saxon times. The novelist Evelyn Waugh was a frequent visitor to the house and based the family of Marchmain, who are central to his novel Brideshead Revisited, on the Lygons. Surrounded by a moat, the Court is"
"The technique of time shifts from the present to near past is said to be confusing more than illuminating of its characters. While containing a ""distinct whiff of snobbery"", the character of the lower-class Leslie Titmuss who rises on his wiles is developed as the most fascinating figure in the cast. Paradise Postponed Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on a novel by writer John Mortimer. He had adapted ""Brideshead Revisited"" as a film and wrote ""Rumpole of the Bailey."" The series covered a span of 30 years of postwar British history, set in a small"
"Lord Marchmain in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". Beauchamp was the eldest son of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp, by his first wife, Lady Mary Catherine, daughter of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he showed an interest in evangelism, joining the Christian Social Union. Beauchamp succeeded his father in the earldom in 1891 at the age of 18, and was mayor of Worcester between 1895 and 1896. A progressive in his ideas, he was surprised to be offered the post of Governor of New South Wales in May 1899. Though"
"he continued to write. He displayed to the world a mask of indifference, but he was capable of great kindness to those whom he considered his friends. After his death in 1966 he acquired a following of new readers through the film and television versions of his works, such as the television serial ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born on 28 October 1903 to Arthur Waugh (1866–1943) and Catherine Charlotte Raban (1870–1954), into a family with English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Huguenot origins. Distinguished forebears include Lord Cockburn (1779–1854), a leading Scottish advocate and judge, William"
"A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981. The novel is divided into three parts, framed by a prologue and epilogue. The prologue takes place during the final years of the Second World War. Charles Ryder and his battalion are sent to a country estate called Brideshead, which prompts his recollections which form the rest of the story. In 1923, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, an undergraduate studying history at a college very like Hertford College, Oxford, is befriended by Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of the"
"for television, in 1983 and in 2014 (aired July–August 2015 in the UK). The book was adapted by London Weekend Television as a 115-minute drama, and transmitted on Sunday, 9 October 1983. It acted as an introduction to a ten-part adaptation of ""Partners in Crime"", made with the same stars, which began transmission one week later under the title ""Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime"". Adaptor: Pat Sandys Director: Tony Wharmby Cast: ""Francesca Annis"" as Prudence Cowley ""James Warwick"" as Thomas Beresford ""Reece Dinsdale"" as Albert ""Arthur Cox"" as Detective Inspector Marriott ""Gavan O'Herlihy"" as Julius P. Hersheimmer ""Alec McCowen"" as"
"intensive care. He married Georgina Simpson of the Simpsons of Piccadilly department store family. Their daughter Amy is a god-daughter of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal. Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in ""Ivanhoe"", ""Operation Daybreak"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ""The King's Speech"" (2010). For his performance in ""Brideshead Revisited"" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV"
"had previously explored with other characters in ""The Old Wives' Tale""). Clayhanger Street in Burslem was named after the first novel in the series. It runs beside the Wedgwood Institute. ""Hilda Lessways"", a television drama series, was transmitted in 1959. The first three novels were dramatised as a 26-part serial by ATV and broadcast on the British network ITV in 1976. The cast includes Janet Suzman as Hilda Lessways, Peter McEnery as Edwin Clayhanger, Harry Andrews as Darius Clayhanger and Denholm Elliott as Tertius Ingpen. The serial was released on DVD in the UK in July 2010. The Clayhanger Family"
"lead writer Russell T Davies has made his scripts available online. In 2007, Penguin Character Books revived the novelisations concept for the spin-off series, ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"". As of early 2010, all stories from the series' first season, two from the second, and one from the third, have been adapted. The third-season novelisation, adapting ""The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith"", marked the first appearance of the Doctor in a TV-based novelisation since the 1996 TV movie was adapted. ""Shada"" by Douglas Adams (not originally completed for broadcast after television production was postponed in 1979, but completed with narration for"
"Paradise Postponed Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on a novel by writer John Mortimer. He had adapted ""Brideshead Revisited"" as a film and wrote ""Rumpole of the Bailey."" The series covered a span of 30 years of postwar British history, set in a small village. The series explores the mystery of why Reverend Simeon Simcox, a ""wealthy Socialist rector"", bequeathed the millions of the Simcox brewery estate to Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister. Simeon's sons Fred, a jazz-drumming country doctor and Henry, once Britain's brightest and angriest writer who now works"
"of the diaries and letters promoted increased interest in Waugh and his works and caused publication of much new material. Christopher Sykes's biography had appeared in 1975, between 1980 and 1998 three more full biographies were issued and other biographical and critical studies have continued to be produced. A collection of Waugh's journalism and reviews was published in 1983, revealing a fuller range of his ideas and beliefs. The new material provided further grounds for debate between Waugh's supporters and detractors. The 1982 Granada Television adaptation of ""Brideshead Revisited"" introduced a new generation to Waugh's works, in Britain and in"
"television station WGBH, and first aired on American television in April 2000, as a feature in the PBS series ""Masterpiece"". It won a Peabody Award in 2000. The adaptation was originally written by John Sullivan, the writer of BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"", and would have emphasised the comic aspects of Dickens' novel. The plan was to reunite former stars David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst on-screen, with Jason playing Wilkins Micawber and Lyndhurst in the role of Uriah Heep. When Sullivan disagreed with the new direction and re-allocation of the adaptation to the BBC's drama department, he left the"
"the series and revising them into a new format, which was to be based in Jersey, and 1981 saw the first broadcast of ""Bergerac"", a series starring John Nettles as the titular detective, who returns to work after a bad period in his life. In conjunction with the series, BBC Books published two novels written by Paul Ableman, entitled ""Shoestring"" (1979) and ""Shoestring's Finest Hour"" (1980). After many years of being unseen, the series was repeated on terrestrial television in January 2002, with 14 of the 21 episodes airing back-to-back on daytime BBC One. However, due to scheduling, between 6"
"right until 2012 to appoint representatives to the Council of British Rowing. The others were London Rowing Club, Thames Rowing Club, Oxford University Boat Club and Cambridge University Boat Club. Notable members include: In Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"", the character Cousin Jasper (who ""had come within appreciable distance of getting his rowing blue"") wears a Leander Club tie when he first calls upon the protagonist Charles Ryder to offer advice on being a student at Oxford. In the 1981 television adaptation, Cousin Jasper (played by Stephen Moore) is depicted wearing the Leander's ""city"" tie (dark blue with small pink"
"security, even as an entirety with their contents, is not guaranteed by any legislation. When Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"", portraying life in the English country house, was published in 1945, its first few chapters offered a glimpse of an exclusive and enviable world, a world of beautiful country houses with magnificent contents, privileged occupants, a profusion of servants and great wealth. Yet, in its final chapters, Brideshead's author accurately documented a changing and fading world, a world in which the country house as a symbol of power, privilege and a natural order, was not to exist. As early as"
"Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in ""Ivanhoe"", ""Operation Daybreak"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ""The King's Speech"" (2010). For his performance in ""Brideshead Revisited"" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award, as well as being nominated for an Emmy. Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (""née"" Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas"
"of novel I would like to have written"". The novel was dramatised as the 1969 film, ""Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher"" starring Robin Phillips and also by Jeremy Front in a 2008 BBC Radio 4 production starring Alistair McGowan as Pennyfeather, Jim Broadbent as Grimes, Andrew Sachs as Prendergast, Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Fagan, Jonathan Kidd as Philbrick, Joanna David as Margot Beste-Chetwynde, Emma Fielding as Flossie, and Richard Pearce as Peter. In 2017 the BBC produced a three-part TV dramatisation starring Jack Whitehall as Paul Pennyfeather, David Suchet as Dr Fagan, Eva Longoria as Margot Beste-Chetwynde, Douglas Hodge"
"to direct ""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"". This led to the roles being recast by directorial replacement Julian Jarrold. Just as it did for the earlier television adaptation of Waugh's novel, Castle Howard in North Yorkshire serves as the setting for Brideshead. In ""The World of Brideshead"", a bonus feature on the DVD release of the film, Simon Howard reveals his family was eager to welcome film crews to the estate once again. It had become a major tourist attraction after the television serial aired; they hoped the feature film would renew interest in the property. Principal"
"She died in Santa Rosa, California in 1985. Gladys Lucy Adshead Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books. Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States. Gladys Adshead was best known for her ""Brownie"" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by"
"Matilda (novel) Matilda is a book by British writer Roald Dahl. It was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London, with 232 pages and illustrations by Quentin Blake. It was adapted as an audio reading by actress Kate Winslet, a 1996 feature film directed by Danny DeVito, a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme starring Lauren Mote as Matilda, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Miss Honey, Nichola McAuliffe as Miss Trunchbull and narrated by Lenny Henry, and a 2010 musical. In 2012 ""Matilda"" was ranked number 30 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by ""School Library Journal"", a monthly with"
"unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself"". This is achieved by an examination of the Roman Catholic aristocratic Flyte family as seen by the narrator, Charles Ryder. In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his ""magnum opus""; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene stating ""I re-read ""Brideshead Revisited"" and was appalled."" In Waugh's preface to his revised edition of ""Brideshead"" (1959) the author explained the circumstances in which the novel was written, following a minor parachute accident in the six months between December 1943 and June"
"was remade in the United States in 2002, starring Rob Lowe and Sam Neill in the title roles. The series was produced by Anglia Television, in association with A&E Network Television and Tesauro Productions. The complete series was released on DVD on 16 January 2006. Framed (TV series) Framed is a British television crime drama series, created and written by acclaimed author Lynda La Plante, adapted from her novel of the same name. The four-part series, broadcast on ITV, ran from 27 November to 18 December 1992 and followed police officer Lawrence Jackson (David Morrissey), who whilst on holiday in"
"upon the thread."" Book Three of ""Brideshead Revisited"" is called ""A Twitch Upon the Thread"" and the quotation acts as a metaphor for the operation of grace in the characters' lives. They are free to wander the world according to their free will until they are ready and receptive to God's grace, at which point he acts in their lives and effects a conversion. In the miniseries made by Granada Television adapting ""Brideshead"", the character Lady Marchmain (Claire Bloom) reads this passage aloud. 1. 2. ""The Wisdom of Father Brown"" (1914) 3. ""The Incredulity of Father Brown"" (1926) 4. ""The"
"John Masefield which Shute quotes at the start of the book: The film adaptation of the novel was released in 1951, starring James Stewart as Honey, Jack Hawkins as Scott, and Marlene Dietrich as Teasdale. The film was released as ""No Highway in the Sky"" in the United States and elsewhere. ""No Highway"", a radio adaptation dramatised by Mike Walker with Paul Ritter as Honey, William Beck as Scott, and Fenella Woolgar as Teasdale was directed by Toby Swift for BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial in August 2010. An earlier BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial, dramatised by Brian Gear in"