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Book Club, from the archives: 80 years of Brideshead Revisited

Book Club, from the archives: 80 years of Brideshead Revisited

Update: 2025-08-28
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This week's Book Club podcast marks the 80th anniversary this year of the publication of Brideshead Revisited. This conversation is from the archives, originally recorded in 2020 to mark its 75th anniversary.


To discuss Evelyn Waugh's great novel, Sam Leith is joined by literary critic and author Philip Hensher, and by the novelist's grandson (and general editor of Oxford University Press's complete Evelyn Waugh) Alexander Waugh. What made the novel so pivotal in Waugh's career, what did it mean to the author and how did he revise it? And why have generations of readers, effectively, misread it?





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Book Club, from the archives: 80 years of Brideshead Revisited

Book Club, from the archives: 80 years of Brideshead Revisited