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The Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means
A solo episode. Ian delves into two short story cycles, The Kid Brady stories (1905-7) and A Man Of Means (1914, with C. H. Bovill) which posthumously were collected into a single volume. The Kid Brady stories are boxing tales set in New York, while A Man of Means is a quasi-novella wherein a hapless clerk from Bury St Edmonds inadvertently keeps getting richer and richer. There will be spoilers.CN: brief discussion of racismOther Wodehouse works mentionedOver SeventyPsmith JournalistThe Prince and Betty The Gold BatThe White FeatherThe Coming of Bill AKA The White HopeThe Reggie Pepper StoriesThe Inimitable JeevesThe Indiscretions of ArchieSomething FreshNot George Washington (with H W Westbrook)Nuts and Wine (Revue) (with C H Bovill)The Globe By The Way Book (with H W Westbrook)Big MoneyBachelors AnonymousBring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)Reference works consulted or mentionedmadameeulalie.orgNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookGarrison and Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (third edition)David Jasen P. G. Wodehouse: Portrait of a Master Also mentionedKid McCoyToo many other real life boxers to mentionJack Johnson vs James J JeffriesDamon RunyanRandy Newman, Short People (song)Harold Begbie, The Curious and Diverting Adventures of Sir John Sparrow, Bart. Charles Dickens, David CopperfieldSeymour Hicks, The Gay Gordons (musical comedy)Phyllis BedellsC H Bovill, Honi Soit (revue)Miguel de Cervantes, Don QuixoteTobias Smollett, Roderick RandomCharles Dickens, The Pickwick PapersGeorge Barr McCutcheon, Brewster's Millions The Bumpkin Billionaires, comic strip originally in Whoopee comicGuglielmo MarconiWodehousekeeping Podcast linksWodehousekeeping on BlueskyWodehousekeeping on FacebookBuy me a coffee on Ko-fiemail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Little Nugget with Nigel Townshend
Ian Cockburn is joined by his old friend Nigel Townshend to dissect Agatha Christie's favourite Wodehouse novel The Little Nugget (1913). A tale of kipnapping at an English private preparatory school, presumably inspired by Wodehouse's time as a guest at Emsworth House school. There will be spoilers.Other Wodehouse works mentionedPiccadilly JimFull MoonThank You, JeevesThe Luck StoneThe Eighteen-Carat Kid (variant version of The Little Nugget)The Indiscretions of ArchieMuch Obliged, JeevesPsmith JournalistAlso mentionedThe Beano and Dandy comicsThe BBC radio Jeeves adaptations with Richard Briers and Michael HordernAgatha Christie, Hallowe'en PartyBaldwin King-HallHerbert WestbrookKing Cophetua Harry Hershfield, Desperate Desmond (comic strip)Napoleon BonaparteReference works consultedmadameeulalie.orgRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeGarrison and Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse volume 3Sophie Ratcliffe (ed.), P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookWodehousekeeping Podcast linksWodehousekeeping on BlueskyWodehousekeeping on FacebookBuy me a coffee on Ko-fiemail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Prince and Betty (UK Version) with Alexander Rennie
Ian is joined by Alexander Rennie once more to look at the UK version of the novel The Prince and Betty (1912). The US version has a very different plot closely based on the earlier novel Psmith, Journalist (serialised 1909-1910, book version 1915). We touch lightly on the US version but the main discussion of it will follow in the episode on Psmith, Journalist.Alexander's own podcast is Forgotten TownsOther Wodehouse works mentionedPsmith, JournalistThe Swoop"The Good Angel" (AKA "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes")A Gentleman of LeisurePsmith in the CityThe Prizegiving scene in Right Ho, JeevesThe Steggles stories in The Inimitable JeevesThe J. Washburn Stoker character in Thank You, JeevesAlso mentionedMills and BoonBoris KarloffEllaline TerrissSeymour HicksThe Monégasque Revolution of 1910Carry On FilmsStephen Leacock, "Gertrude the Governess"Mary Shelley, FrankensteinYes MinisterYe Olde Cheshire CheeseKigeli V Ndahindurwa of RwandaReference works consultedDaniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (Third Expanded Edition)Neil Midkiff's notes on the different versions at Madame Eulalie's Rare PlumsNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersWodehousekeeping Podcast linksWodehousekeeping on BlueskyWodehousekeeping on FacebookBuy me a coffee on Ko-fiemail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere
Ian looks at the 1997 posthumous collection of Wodehouse short school stories, Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere, featuring stories that first appeared in magazines from 1901-1911. No plot spoilers for once, except one that comes with an advance warning.WIkipedia page for the bookMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums links:List of Doyle/Holmes references in Wodehouse's early worksIndex to school stories viewable at Madame EulalieGuide to early series characters, and an attempted explanation of which Jackson is whichOther Wodehouse works mentionedAll of the school novelsTales of St Austin'sPsmith in the CityThe Prince and Betty The Luck of the BodkinsNot George WashingtonJeeves and the Feudal Spirit"Treating of Cribs""The Fifteenth Man""From a Detective's Notebook" (The World of Mr Mulliner)"The Great Sermon Handicap"The Joan Romney storiesAlso mentionedDaniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (Third Expanded Edition)Tony Ring and Geoffrey Jaggard, Millennium Wodehouse ConcordanceHenry Bohn's Classic Library (used as "cribs" by Edwardian schoolboys)Barry PainThe works of Sir Arthur Conan DoyleOtto Penzler (ed.) SherlockPeter Cannon, "The Adventure of the Noble Husband"Without A ClueCharles Hamilton, the Greyfriars StoriesF C Burnand, "Happy Thoughts"Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"Lewis Carroll, "Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing"Punch Wodehousekeeping Podcast linksWodehousekeeping on BlueskyWodehousekeeping on Facebookemail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Psmith in the City with Josh Cockburn
Ian is rejoined by his brother Josh to scrutinise "Psmith in the City" AKA "The New Fold", the second Psmith novel, serialised in 1908-9 and collected in book form in 1910. It is a highly autobiographical account of reluctantly working in a London bank. Mike and Psmith's schooldays are behind them, but Mike is still fixated on cricket and Psmith is still out to cause disruption wherever possible. There will be spoilers and a soupçon of politics. Special thanks to the website Madam Eulalie's Rare Plums.Article mentioned in the show that helped explain the reference to the Unionist partyBradshaw's interview with Wodehouse, quoted in the episodeMark Hodson's annotations of the novel Other Wodehouse books and stories mentionedThe Gold BatMike at Wrykyn (Jackson Junior)Mike and Psmith (The Lost Lambs)Psmith JournalistLeave it to PsmithBig MoneyNot George WashingtonOver Seventy (Autobiography)The Luck StoneThe SwoopMoney in the Bank"The Goalkeeper and the Plutocrat""L'affaire Uncle John""Comrade Bingo"Wodehouse reference books mentioned and/or consultedRichard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the EndRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersAlso mentionedThe Fosters of WorcestershireSir Arthur Conan DoyleLeslie Havergal BradshawHall CaineManchester UnitedJimmy and Tom TurnbullJerome K Jerome, Three Men in a BoatGeorge AdeJack HobbsThe Marx Brothers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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