Evelyn Waugh Face To Face BBC Interview
He was a novelist known for his quick and cruel wit, his wideeyed opinions and his indifference about saying the shocking. So a BBC Home Service programme called Frankly Speaking in which Evelyn Waugh is quizzed by three abrasive questioners was never going to be a walk in the country. Today what was later described as the most illnatured interview ever broadcast can be heard for the first time since 1953. Waugh was being questioned by Charles Wilmot, Jack Davies and Stephen Black and the exchanges
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