Wodehousekeeping

Part two of the "The Inimitable Jeeves" bonanza. This covers the remaining eight chapters, or six stories: "Comrade Bingo", "The Great Sermon Handicap", "The Purity of the Turf", "The Metropolitan Touch", "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" and "Bingo and the Little Woman". It also contains our attempt to rank all the stories in the book.
There will be plot spoilers, so take heed.
Next month: Leave it to Psmith with Ujjwal Deb.
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Reference works consulted
N. T. Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website (specific page of annotations for this book, mostly by Mark Hodson)
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Ukridge
Psmith in the City
"The Rough Stuff"
"Jeeves and the Kid Clementina"
"Bertie Changes His Mind"
Right Ho, Jeeves
"The Good Angel"
A Damsel in Distress
Something Fresh
"Sundered Hearts"
Over Seventy
The Berlin wartime broadcasts
Also mentioned
The Empire Music Hall
David Lloyd George
Charlotte Corday
Jean-Paul Marat
Lyons' Tea House
Claud Cockburn
Thelma Cazalet-Keir (ed.), Homage to Wodehouse
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
Arthur Marshall
The Edinburgh Castle
Recommended playlist
"The Red Flag"
Noel Coward, "Imagine the Duchess's Feelings" and "The Stately Homes of England"
Pet shop boys, "Opportunities"
Bourvil, "C'était bien (le petit bal perdu)"
The Ink Spots, "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"
Ambrose and his Orchestra, "Limehouse Blues" and "B'wanga"
Ian Carmichael, "What Would I Do Without You, Jeeves" and "Bertie's Lucky Day"
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Ian is rejoined by Tania Agnihotri to make a vain attempt to do justice to one of Wodehouse's greatest masterpieces, The Inimitable Jeeves (simply Jeeves in the USA) from 1923. Like Indiscretions of Archie it's a collection of short stories disguised as a novel. This is a two part episode. The first part covers the first ten chapters, or the first five stories: "Jeeves in the Springtime", "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count", "Scoring Off Jeeves", "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" and "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril".
There will be plot spoilers.
Next month: Leave it to Psmith with Ujjwal Deb
You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com.
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Bluesky and Facebook
Reference works consulted
N. T. Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website (specific page of annotations for this book, mostly by Mark Hodson)
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Something Fresh
My Man Jeeves
Thank You Jeeves
The Code of the Woosters
Right Ho, Jeeves
Indiscretions of Archie
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Ukridge
The Swoop
Jill the Reckless
The Golden Moth (musical, with Fred Thompson and Ivor Novello)
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"
"Extricating Young Gussie"
The Adventures of Sally
"Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh"
Bring On the Girls (with Guy Bolton)
Oh My Dear (musical, with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern)
Also mentioned
Miguel de Cervantes, The Siege of Numantia and Don Quixote
World of Wooster, TV series
Jeeves and Wooster, TV series
Alexander Pope
Nicolai Machiavelli
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
George Gordon, Lord Byron
ABC tea houses
"The Soul's Awakening", painting by James Sant
Ruby M. Ayres
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the "Sherlock Holmes" stories
Helen Wodehouse
Buck's Club
Fred Thompson
Gelert
Dr. Henry McBrian
Father Ted, TV series
Lord Roberts
Harrods
Harvey Nichols
The Bullingdon Club
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
Ian Carmichael
Dennis Price
Derek Nimmo
Just A Minute, radio series
Timothy Carlton
Benedict Cumberbatch
Tom and Jerry
The Lamb's Club
Guy Bolton
Abe Erlanger
The Shuman Brothers
Gilbert and Sullivan, Ruddigore
Recommended playlist
"Blow the Man Down" (Trad.)
Ewan MacColl, "The Manchester Rambler"
Greenbank and Jones, "Private Tommy Atkins"
Wodehouse and Kern, "We're Crooks"
Francis Lai, "La Marseillaise"
André Popp, "La valse à mille temps"
Beach Boys, "That's Not Me"
The Cure, "The Love Cats"
Mott the Hoople, "All the Young Dudes"
Wodehouse and Kern, "Ask Dad"
Ian Carmichael, "What Would I Do Without You, Jeeves?"
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Ian is joined by his old friend Sarah Humphrey to talk about The Adventures of Sally AKA Mostly Sally from 1922. A sort of sister novel to Jill the Reckless, again based on Wodehouse's experience in the world of Broadway musical comedies. The novel reflects its time with talk of financial speculation, prohibition, Spanish flu and boxing. Most notably perhaps, the independent spirit and good sense of not just the heroine but other female characters arguably reflects a spirit of feminism.
There will be plot spoilers.
Next month: The Inimitable Jeeves with Tania Agnihotri
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Reference works consulted
N. T. Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
The Cabaret Girl (musical, with George Grossmith and Jerome Kern)
Jill the Reckless
Bring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)
"At Geisenheimer's"
Piccadilly Jim
The Luck of the Bodkins
Also mentioned
Jeeves and Wooster (TV show)
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Jerome Kern
Guy Bolton
George Grossmith Jr
George Grossmith Sr
Gilbert and Sullivan
G & W Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
Charles Dickens, Little Dorritt
Martha Finley, The Elsie books
Lee, Sam and Jacob Shubert
Abraham Erlanger
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Sally (Bolton/Kern musical)
Marcus Aurelius
Song snippets
Noel Coward, "The Stately Homes of England" and "Dear Little Café"
Wodehouse/Jerome Kern, "Napoleon"
Grey/Kern, "Sally"
David Devant and his Spirit Wife, "Ginger" (and "Sally")
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A special episode consisting of excerpts from the first ten episodes of Wodehousekeeping, introduced by host Ian Cockburn with a little background on how the show came about.
This is designed for the listener who has skipped these episodes because the haven't read (or actively dislike) the books that the episodes discuss. The selections therefore have been chosen to steer clear of plot spoilers, and plot recapping generally. The emphasis is on my guests' history with Wodehouse and their general thoughts on him, plus other stuff that I think is intrinsically interesting or amusing, outside the wider context of the full podcasts.
The ten episodes
The Pothunters
A Prefect’s Uncle
Tales of St Austin’s
The Gold Bat
William Tell Told Again
The Head of Kay’s
Love Among the Chickens
The White Feather
Not George Washington
The Globe By The Way Book
and the guests featured
Julia Ediger
Alexander Rennie
Josh Cockburn
Thom Robinson
Ujjwal Deb
Mora
Gwen Sheldon
You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com.
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Main reference works consulted
N T Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Very Good Jeeves
Summer Moonshine
Psmith in the City
The Inimitable Jeeves
"Ukridge Starts a Bank Account"
A Few Quick Ones
"Jeeves Takes Charge"
"Goodbye to All Cats"
"The Amazing Hat Mystery"
Also mentioned
Arthur Ransome
Enid Blyton
Winker Watson in the Dandy
Jeeves and Wooster TV show
Herbert Westbrook
Baldwin King-Hall
Ella King-Hall
Sebastian Faulks, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Frasier
Anthony Buckeridge, The Jennings books
Edward Gorey
Richard Ayoade
St Stephen's College, Delhi
Shashi Tharoor
Lewis Carroll
SNL
Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope
Winston Churchill
Peter Motteaux's English translation of Miguel Cervantes's Don Quixote
René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, the Asterix books
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Ian is joined by author Ansley Ashe to discuss The Girl on the Boat (1922), AKA Three Men and A Maid.

Ansley Ashe is making a transition from wrestling/soccer mom, soccer coach, and library trustee to full fledged novelist. She has loved mysteries since she was a little girl, so when it came time to choose a genre, mystery was a natural fit. She loves everything between Sherlock Holmes and Mickey Haller aka the Lincoln Lawyer. She is reading her way through Agatha Christie and Anne Perry and read her first Wodehouse just for this podcast, now she will have to add him to her TBR list. Last year she published a series of holiday themed novelettes based on a young, female detective Charlotte "Charlie" Snow, with several novels still to come in the series. You can keep up with her on her Substack

There will be plot spoilers.

Next month: The Adventures of Sally with Sarah Humphrey.

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Reference works consulted
N. T. Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
https://www.madameulalie.org
Wikipedia

Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Frozen Assets
Jill the Reckless (The Little Warrior)
Something Fresh
Heavy Weather
"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
"Church Round the Corner"
A Damsel in Distress
"Sir Agravaine"
"The Mixer"
A Gentleman of Leisure
"Strychnine in the Soup"

Also mentioned
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes stories
Agatha Christie
Anne Perry
Michael Connolly, the Mickey Haller/Lincoln Lawyer books
Jeeves and Wooster
Hugh Laurie
Stephen Fry, Moab is My Washpot
Saturday Night Live
The Girl on the Boat film, archived here
Norman Wisdom
Millicent Martin
Bernard Cribbins
Sheila Hancock
Richard Briers
Athene Seyler
Philip Lock
Wilde
Annie Besant
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Lusitania
Alice "Billie" Dovey
Thomas Otway, The Orphan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Constance Markievicz - first female member of UK parliament
Nancy Astor
Frank Tinney
The Black and White Minstrel Show
Bert Williams
Southwick Priory
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
William Shakespeare, Othello
Scooby Doo
Edgar Allen Poe
Sir Walter Scott, "Young Lochinvar"
Mary Mestmacott, Giant's Bread
Mary Roberts Rheinhart
Dorothy L Sayers
G K Chesterton
Georgette Heyer
Raymond Chandler
"Carolyn Keene", the Nancy Drew series
Amelia Earhart
Marilyn Monroe

Song snippets
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, "(She's Gonna) Respect Me"
Flanders and Swann, "Sea Fever"
The Seven Inches, "Stop Pestering Me" (lyrics/vocals: me)
Tindersticks, "Pinky in the Daylight"

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