To offer some good cheer in the trying times of spring 2020, we escaped our isolation by dipping into the effervescent world of P.G. Wodehouse. We prescribed Wodehouse as if he were a C19th patent medicine – “Plum’s Very Special Balm for Troubled Souls – Alleviates all Known Ills and Revives the Jaded & Weary. Apply to the Brow As Necessary Whenever a Cloud Passes Between You and the Sun”. And every Wednesday throughout the first lock-down we released a delicious and rejuvenating triple-bill of extracts, each chosen and read by John de Falbe.
Mr Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
– Evelyn Waugh
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11th November 2020
Another lockdown, another double-bill of Wodehouse Wednesdays - but not quite as you know it. John de Falbe reads from Ben Schott's latest homage to Plum: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith.
3rd June 2020
Lord Ickenham, self-proclaimed as ‘one of the hottest earls that ever donned a coronet’, is not only this novel’s hero, but was one of Wodehouse’s all-time favourite characters.
27th May 2020
Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia conspires to steal a silver cow creamer from the home of Sir Watkyn Bassett… an ordeal which will ‘test the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before.’
20th May 2020
Strolling through London in scarlet tights, Gussie Fink-Nottle’s Mephistopheles costume is a bright-red warning sign of the turbulence to come.
13th May 2020
Ten short stories, with titles as peculiarly ominous as ‘Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg’ and ‘The Aunt and the Sluggard’.
6th May 2020
Lord Emsworth’s delectable solitude at Blandings Castle is shattered by the arrival of his sister, Connie. The conniving Duke of Dunstable follows shortly behind her, and trouble follows shortly behind him.
29th April 2020
Disguised as Gussie Fink-Nottle, Wooster pays a visit to Deverill Hall. Things start to go downhill even before he arrives.
22nd April 2020
Jeeves gets caught in a curious love triangle between the American heiress Pauline Stoker and his two current employers: Bertie Wooster and Lord ‘Chuffy’ Chuffnell.
