Ian is rejoined by composer, writer, musician, voice artist, and parafictionalist Peter Falconer to look at Indiscretions of Archie (1921), a series of short stories adapted into the form of a novel. Topics arising include the First World War, Prohibition, 'the Irish question' and Labour Relations.
There will be plot spoilers.
Next month: The Clicking of Cuthbert, or Golf Without Tears.
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Reference works consulted
Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Norman Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works alluded to
The Swoop
A Gentleman of Leisure
Piccadilly Jim
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Code of the Woosters
The Prince and Betty
\"Extricating Young Gussie\"
\"Leave it to Jeeves\" AKA \"The Artistic Career of Corky\"
A Damsel in Distress
\"Jeeves and the Chump Cyril\"
Bring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)
\"We're Crooks\" (song)
Uneasy Money
\"Napoleon\" (song)
\"In Alcala\"
\"Doing Clarence a Bit of Good\"
\"Jeeves Makes an Omelette\"
Also mentioned
Baldwin King-Hall
Herbert Westbrook
Ella King-Hall
T. D. Skidmore (US illustrator)
Fred Astaire
A. Wallis Mills (UK illustrator)
Ian Hay
C H Bovill
James Bond
\"Fatty\" Arbuckle
Abe Erlanger
Abgail's Party
Song snippets
The Archies, \"Sugar Sugar\"
Sananda Maitreya, \"If You Let Me Stay\"
The Beach Boys, \"It's Trying to Say\"
The Divine Comedy, \"Don't Mention the War\"
Shonen Knife, \"Fruits and Vegetables\"
Little Richard, \"Lucille\"
Kenny Carter, \"Showdown\"
Sterling Trio \"It's A Long Way Back To Mother's Knee\"
Cole Porter, \"You're the Top\"
Noel Coward, \"Mad Dogs and Englishmen\"
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, \"Annie's Cousin Fannie\"
Flanders and Swann, \"Strike\"
Magnetic Fields, \"Goin' Back to the Country\"
Cocteau Twins, \"Tishbite\"
Georges Brassens, \"La chanson pour l'Auvergnat\"
Sting, \"An Englishman in New York\"
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