Arena (1975)

The Waugh Trilogy (3): An Englishman's Home (1987x16)

Air date: Apr 20, 1987

Last of three programmes. When Waugh died on Easter Sunday 21 years ago, his friend Graham Greene felt "as if one's commanding officer were dead." During his last 20 years he retreated from the outside world, increasingly obsessed with mortality - at the same time cultivating the cantankerous personality that became his abiding image. With contributions from his priest, neighbours and family, Arena looks behind the public mask of Evelyn Waugh.