Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,14 Apr 2003,22 mins

Evelyn Waugh

Masterpiece

Available for over a year

‘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 BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2003.

Programme Website
More episodes