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Arena - The Waugh Trilogy - An Englishman's Home

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Series of three programmes profiling the writer Evelyn Waugh. The final episode examines Waugh's deteriorating health in his latter years. After his mental illness Waugh penned The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold, which describes horror, hallucinations and voices in the head. So accurate were his descriptions of his experiences that the work was highly regarded by psychoanalysts.