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Stannard mentions this incident briefly in the second volume of
his Waugh biography (EW: The Later Years, 1939-1966) on p. 477:
"The BBC paid L300 for his appearance on 'Monitor' and succumbed
to his mischievous condition that he be interviewed either by
[Christopher] Sykes or by some pretty girl who had read all his
books.... Elizabeth Jane Howard was given the task of ...dealing
with Waugh's 'senile vanity'.... Leering gallantly at his cool
inquisitor, he inveighed against the 'gibberish' of modernism.
Joyce, he said, was plainly lunatic." This interview was held I
believe the year before Waugh died.
Mary