A solo episode this time, as I (Ian Cockburn) turn to 1917's The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories, P. G. Wodehouse's second collection of short stories for adults, which includes \"Extricating Young Gussie\", the story that first introduces the legendary characters Bertie Wooster (here apparently called Bertie Mannering-Phipps), Aunt Agatha and - in a cameo role - Jeeves. There are plot spoilers. Content note: see below next to individual stories.
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Stories covered, with start times:
\"Bill the Bloodhound\" 6m
\"Extricating Young Gussie\" 17m
\"Wilton's Holiday\" 33m 46s
\"The Mixer: He Meets a Shy Gentleman\" 42m
\"The Mixer: He Moves in Society\" 49m
\"Crowned Heads\" 54m
\"At Geisenheimer's\" 1h 1m
\"The Making of Mac's\" 1h 11m (CN: suicide)
\"One Touch of Nature\" 1h 22m
\"Black for Luck\" 1h 27m
\"The Romance of an Ugly Policeman\" 1h 35m
\"A Sea of Troubles\" 1h 43m (CN: suicide)
\"The Man with Two Left Feet\" 1h 46m
Other works by Wodehouse mentioned
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
Piccadilly Jim
Something Fresh
The Reggie Pepper stories
\"Three From Dunsterville\"
\"Deep Waters\",
\"Fixing it for Freddie\"
The golf stories
The Girl on the Boat
Bustanoby's
\"In Alkala\"
\"By Advice of Counsel\"
\"Something to Worry About\"
\"The Man Upstairs\"
\"The Man Who Disliked Cats\"
My Man Jeeves
The Prince and Betty
Uneasy Money
Joy in the Morning
Nuts and Wine (revue)
A Man of Means
Reference works consulted
Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Also mentioned
George Grossmith, Jr.
Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap
Percy Jeeves
Leslie Havergal Bradshaw
The Beatles, \"Get Back\"
Magnetic Fields, \"Goin' Back to the Country\"
O. Henry
The Golden Butterfly (film adaptation of \"The Making of Mac's\")
M. F. Carey, \"Learning McFadden to Waltz\"
Leonora Cazalet
Denis Mackail \"At Mr Besley's\"
Do the Right Thing podcast
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