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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ˈwʊdhaʊs/; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; the feeble-minded Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the loquacious Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and the equally loquacious Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.
Jonathan Cecil reads the second collection of golf-related short stories from the pen of P.G. Wodehouse. All nine of these tales are told through The Oldest Member. 0:00:00 The Heart of a Goof 0:53:29 High Stakes 1:43:25 Keeping In with Vosper 2:27:03 Chester Forgets Himself 3:23:15 The Magic Plus Fours 4:08:19 The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh 4:48:19 Rodney Fails to Qualify 5:40:33 Jane Gets off the Fairway 66:35:30 The Purification of Rodney Spelvin
Jonathan Cecil reads ten short stories in Wodehouse's first golfing collection. The first nine stories are described through The Oldest Member. This is our first introduction to this recurring character; a loquacious expert on all matters of golf, life, love and how they are ever intertwined. 0:00:00 The Clicking of Cuthbert 0:34:20 A Woman is Only a Woman 1:15:44 A Mixed Threesome 1:52:39 Sundered Hearts 2:33:21 The Salvation of George Mackintosh 3:07:26 Ordeal by Golf 3:50:07 The Long Hole 4:25:28 The Heel of Achilles 4:58:09 The Rough Stuff 5:42:26 The Coming of Gowf
Ian Carmichael (who played Bertie Wooster in the 1960s television adaptations 'P.G. Wodehouse's The World of Wooster') reads the eighth 'Jeeves' novel.
We find ourselves in the austerity of the 1950s, when England's aristocracy was feeling the pinch. Bertie Wooster has gone to a residential self-help school to learn how to darn his socks. Until he re-emerges, Jeeves has signed up with Bill Rowcester (pronounced Roaster), an earl who is failing to make ends meet in trade, and yearning to sell his stately home, which has charm and damp in equal measure. In his new environment Jeeves is required to exert his mammoth brain to what would be breaking point for any normal intellect. Apart from the current economic crisis and his employer's complete ignorance of digging and delving, Jeeves has to duck and weave to preserve his temporary master from grievous injury at the hands of a) a very angry White Hunter, and b) a small but feisty fiancée. ...
BBC TV adaptation of P G Wodehouse's novel "Heavy Weather" from the Blandings series. As far as I know this film never made it to DVD and is currently unavailable, so I thought I may share it here. Peter O'Toole as Clarence, Lord Emsworth, Richard Briers as Galahad Threepwood, Judy Parfitt as Lady Constance, Sarah Badel as Lady Julia, Roy Hudd as Beach the butler, Ronald Fraser as Sir Gregory Parsloe and Richard Johnson as Lord Tilbury, the recently ennobled George "Stinker" Pyke. Pilbeam was played by David Bamber who became widely known around the same time as Mr. Collins in the BBC's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Other members of the cast included Rebecca Lacey as Sue Brown, Benjamin Soames as Ronnie Fish and Samuel West as Monty Bodkin. The screenplay was written b...
Plum - A Portrait of of the life of P.G. Wodehouse. P.G. Wodehouse , perhaps best known and best loved of English comic novelists, is still something of a mystery. Affable and accessible to journalists, he was cripplingly shy and remained inscrutable about his private life. Bookmark traces his career, from an Edwardian middle class family to his experiences in a German internment camp, with the help of Tom Sharpe , Barrie Pitt , Lady Frances Donaldson , Sir Edward Cazalet and Lt Col Norman Murphy , a Wodehouse scholar who claims to have discovered the origins of Blandings Castle. Film editor JEFF SHAW Producer NIGEL WILLIAMS ('Wodehouse on Broadway' tomorrow at 4.30pm) 0 DOCUMENTARY: page 18 Contributors Unknown: P.G. Wodehouse Unknown: Tom Sharpe Unknown: Barrie Pitt Unknown: Frances...
Freddie Davidson reads a collection of thirteen of P.G. Wodehouse's short stories. These early works have a wide-ranging series of themes, but are most notable for the first introduction of a certain Gentleman and his Gentleman's Personal Gentleman in the story 'Extricating Young Gussie'. 0:00:00 Short introductory biography. 0:02:51 Bill the Bloodhound 0:35:52 Extricating Young Gussie 1:16:04 Wilton's Holiday 1:43:44 The Mixer: (1) He Meets a Shy Gentleman 2:12:34 The Mixer: (2) He Moves in Society 2:38:47 Crowned Heads 3:08:46 At Geisheimer's 3:41:16 The Making of Mac's 4:11:00 One Touch of Nature 4:34:26 Black for Luck 5:07:49 The Romance of an Ugly Policeman 5:36:18 A Sea of Troubles 6:01:55 The Man with Two Left Feet
1985 radio adaptation. Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth. Lockwood West as Beech.
From the 'What Ho, Jeeves' series of adaptations with Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster and Michael Horden as Jeeves.
Jonathan Cecil reads the second collection of Wodehouse short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster. The chapter titles, and their timings, follow - although some of the stories had been published under different names in The Strand Magazine. 01. 0:00:00 Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum 02. 0:32:18 Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind 03. 1:08:03 The Pride of the Woosters Is Wounded 04. 1:35:47 Introducing Claude and Eustace 05. 2:03:12 A Letter of Introduction 06: 2:40:40 Comrade Bingo 07: 3:16:14 The Great Sermon Handicap 08: 3:49:58 The Purity of the Turf 09: 4:24:10 The Metropolitan Touch 10: 5:05:06 The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace 11: 5:41:14 Bingo and the little Woman