{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64c029908ab13d001262e484/6986f71b5ad8bc4f7cd197b1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A Damsel in Distress with Josh Cockburn","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64c029908ab13d001262e484/1770452711495-5619bd5e-e5a6-4865-afd1-7759bfe3ff5d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Ian is joined again by his brother Josh to talk about P. G. Wodehouse's <em>A Damsel in Distress</em>, the 1919 standalone novel that has a lot of similiarites to a Blandings Novel. It also features the return of Keggs (<em>The Man Upstairs</em>, <em>The Coming of Bill</em>) and the themes of medieval-style chivalry, class snobbery and musical theatre. We also talk about the 1937 film version, starring Fred Astaire, featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and a screenplay co-written by Wodehouse.</p><p><br></p><p>There will be spoilers.</p><p><br></p><p>You can e-mail me at <a href=\"mailto:wodehousekeeping@gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wodehousekeeping@gmail.com</a>, anonymously or otherwise</p><p>Furnish me with the needful at <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/wodehousekeeping/episodes/ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping</a></p><p>Join in the feast of reason and flow of soul on <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/wodehousekeeping.bsky.social\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky</a> or <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094742356860\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reference works consulted</strong></p><p>Robert McCrum, <em>Wodehouse: A Life</em></p><p>Sophie Ratcliffe, <em>P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters</em></p><p>Norman Murphy,<em> A Wodehouse Handbook</em></p><p>Richard Usborne, <em>Wodehouse At Work to the End</em></p><p>Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, <em>Who's Who in Wodehouse</em></p><p>Lee Davis, <em>Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern</em></p><p>Barry Day, <em>The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse</em></p><p><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/wodehousekeeping/episodes/madameulalie.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website</a></p><p>Wikipedia and IMDb</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Other works by Wodehouse mentioned: </strong></p><p><em>A Gentleman of Leisure</em></p><p><em>Something Fresh</em></p><p><em>A Damsel in Distress</em> (play and film adaptations)</p><p><em>The Girl Behind the Gun </em>(show)</p><p>\"The Good Angel\"</p><p>\"<a href=\"https://www.madameulalie.org/strand/Love_Me_Love_My_Dog.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Love Me, Love My Dog</a>\"</p><p><em>Something Fishy</em></p><p><em>Summer Lightning</em></p><p><em>Bachelors Anonymous</em></p><p>\"Sir Agravaine\"</p><p><em>The Prince and Betty</em></p><p><a href=\"https://www.madameulalie.org/punch/Avenged.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\"Avenged!\"</a></p><p>\"Extricating Young Gussie\"</p><p><em>Piccadilly Jim</em></p><p><em>Uneasy Money</em></p><p><em>Spring Fever</em></p><p><em>The Code of the Woosters</em></p><p><em>Jill the Reckless</em></p><p><em>Miss 1917 </em>(show)</p><p><em>Oh Kay </em>(show)</p><p><em>Rosalie </em>(show)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Also mentioned:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Ian Hay</p><p>Basil Foster</p><p>W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, <em>1066 and All That</em></p><p>George Gershwin</p><p><em>Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga </em>(Bollywood adaptation)</p><p>Maud and Ivan Caryll</p><p>Euros Childs, \"Thrips\"</p><p>Jerome Kern</p><p><em>Taskmaster</em></p><p>Reece Shearsmith</p><p>Mary Deane</p><p>The Regal Theatre</p><p>Alice Dovey</p><p>Anton Chekhov</p><p>Roscoe \"Fatty\" Arbuckle</p><p>Enid Blyton</p><p>Richard Harris Barham,&nbsp;<em>The Ingoldsby Legends</em></p><p>Lewis Carroll, \"The Walrus and the Carpenter\"</p><p>Alfred, Lord Tennyson</p><p>Machiavelli</p><p>David and Jonathan (<em>Book of Samuel</em>)</p><p>Edmond Rostand, <em>Cyrano de Bergerac</em></p><p><em>Riot Women</em></p><p>Guy Bolton</p><p>Ira Gershwin</p><p>Pandro S Berman</p><p>George Stevens</p><p>Allan Scott</p><p>Fred Astaire</p><p>Ginger Rogers</p><p>Joan Fontaine</p><p>George Burns</p><p>Gracie Allen</p><p>Reginald Gardiner</p><p>Ray Noble</p><p><em>It's A Wonderful Life</em></p>","author_name":"iandishes"}