Audio: The Spoken Word
Published Date:
17 May 2008
By BETTY TADMAN
BY Evelyn Waugh
British Library, £9.95
YOU may have read breathlessly introduced extracts in the papers – "the most ill-natured interview in literary history" screamed the Independent – but if so, all the more reason to listen to the recorded reality, in which the writer casually swats his (three!) interviewers like flies. Of course Waugh is un-PC, and his views are eccentrically misanthropic, but what you get, if you listen with an open mind, is the sense of a humane and self-critical man.
The full article contains 89 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
15 May 2008 11:48 AM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
