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4 unusual facts about Brideshead Revisited


Dear Wendy

As a badge of membership, they cultivate a 'Brideshead Stutter' (a reference to the character Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited, who also adopts a deliberate stammer).

Gilliflower

Charles Ryder has them growing under his window when he is a student at Oxford in the novel Brideshead Revisited.

Old Windsor

A chapel at Beaumont is said to be the inspiration for the chapel in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Pont Street

Pont Street is referred to in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, as a place related to typical English snobbery.


Chris Canavan

He appeared in the 1981 series, Brideshead Revisited, starring Laurence Olivier, as well as The Liver Birds and Prime Suspect.

Felix Kelly

These murals were commissioned by George Howard and paid for with the location fee from the Brideshead Revisited television production.

Foyle Film Festival

The 21st festival took place from 21 to 29 November 2008 and included the Northern Ireland premiere of Brideshead Revisited and the Irish, United Kingdom, and European premiere of Deborah Kampmeier's film Hounddog.

Graham Seed

His roles include the adult Britannicus, son of the emperor Claudius in the BBC adaptation of Robert Graves, I, Claudius (1976), Harrop in William Boyd's Channel 4 Film Good and Bad at Games (1983) and Jorkins in the first episode "Et in Arcadia ego" of the ITV television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (1981).

Hugh Lygon

Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

The Trout Inn

The pub features in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited and in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, which was written and filmed in and around Oxford.


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