Oxford in those days was a city of aquatint. Producing this line won me several brownie points with an Oxford grad of my parents’ acquaintance at a party last year. When I came to reread Brideshead, I found that the line is actually “Oxford in those days was still a city of aquatint” and wondered … More 6, 7 & 8: Brideshead Revisited; Scaramouche; and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd