Wodehousekeeping

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.You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com. Replenish the show's doubloons at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping. One-off or recurring payments gratefully received.Hob nob and so forth at Bluesky or FacebookReference works consultedRobert McCrum: Wodehouse: A LifeSophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersNorman Murphy: A Wodehouse HandbookDaniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third editionLee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and KernMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteWikipediaOther Wodehouse works alluded toThe SwoopA Gentleman of LeisurePiccadilly JimThe Inimitable JeevesThe Code of the WoostersThe 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-HallHerbert WestbrookElla King-HallBiblia WodehousianaT. D. Skidmore (US illustrator)Fred AstaireA. Wallis Mills (UK illustrator)Ian HayC H BovillJames Bond"Fatty" ArbuckleAbe ErlangerAbgail's PartySong snippetsThe 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"

Ian is joined for a fifth time by Alexander Rennie of the now concluded Forgotten Towns podcast and blog. They discuss Jill the Reckless, AKA The Little Warrior, from 1920. A standalone Anglo-American novel centred around the New York stage, it includes the first mention of the Drones Club. Ian and Alex both consider this one of the stronger Wodehouse books so far covered in the podcast.  There will be plot spoilers. Next month: Indiscretions of Archie.You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com. Help finance the show, Otis Pilkington style, at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping. One-off or recurring payments gratefully received.Monitor my feeble attempts at self-promotion at Bluesky or FacebookReference works consultedRobert McCrum: Wodehouse: A LifeSophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersNorman Murphy: A Wodehouse HandbookDaniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third editionLee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and KernFrances Donaldson, ed: Yours, PlumMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteWikipediaOther Wodehouse works alluded toSomething FreshThe Prince and BettyUneasy MoneyThe Adventures of SallyLeave it to PsmithBill the ConquerorBig Money"The Man Upstairs"Indiscretions of ArchieThe Inimitable JeevesA Damsel in Distress"The Mixer"The Luck of the BodkinsThe Rose of China"Napoleon" in Have A HeartThe Small Bachelor"Bill" in Show BoatAnything GoesPsmith JournalistCompany For HenryAlso mentionedAlfred, Lord TennysonJohn GrantWilly MasonWalt MasonFlanders and Swann, "The Safety Curtain", "Strike" and "In the D'Oyly Cart"Richard D'Oyly CarteBook of Daniel, The BibleBeastie Boys, "Shadrach"David Devant and His Spirit Wife, "Pimlico"The Bowes-Lyons familyDickens, David Copperfield and Bleak HouseBeachcomber (J.B. Morton), the Captain Foulenough storiesCount Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyIan SproatJulian MitchellThe Ziegfeld FolliesAbraham Lincoln ErlangerNapoleon BonaparteCockburn's PortRennie Heartburn and Indigestion ReliefDiet CokeEtta James, "I Just Want to Make Love To You"AutomatOmar KhayaamAlexander WoollcottWilliam J Halley, "Pullman Porters on Parade"Robert S. Bader, Four of the Three MusketeersApocrypals podcastRichard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals The Orange Tree, RichmondPatricia HodgeThank you for reading the notes! Typing them sometimes feels a little futile, but you make it all worthwhile.

Ian is joined again by his brother Josh to talk about P. G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress, the 1919 standalone novel that has a lot of similiarites to a Blandings Novel. It also features the return of Keggs (The Man Upstairs, The Coming of Bill) 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.There will be spoilers.You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com, anonymously or otherwiseFurnish me with the needful at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingJoin in the feast of reason and flow of soul on Bluesky or FacebookReference works consultedRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookRichard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the EndDaniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in WodehouseLee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and KernBarry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. WodehouseMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteWikipedia and IMDbOther works by Wodehouse mentioned: A Gentleman of LeisureSomething FreshA Damsel in Distress (play and film adaptations)The Girl Behind the Gun (show)"The Good Angel""Love Me, Love My Dog"Something FishySummer LightningBachelors Anonymous"Sir Agravaine"The Prince and Betty"Avenged!""Extricating Young Gussie"Piccadilly JimUneasy MoneySpring FeverThe Code of the WoostersJill the RecklessMiss 1917 (show)Oh Kay (show)Rosalie (show)Also mentioned: Ian HayBasil FosterW.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and All ThatGeorge GershwinEk Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Bollywood adaptation)Maud and Ivan CaryllEuros Childs, "Thrips"Jerome KernTaskmasterReece ShearsmithMary DeaneThe Regal TheatreAlice DoveyAnton ChekhovRoscoe "Fatty" ArbuckleEnid BlytonRichard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby LegendsLewis Carroll, "The Walrus and the Carpenter"Alfred, Lord TennysonMachiavelliDavid and Jonathan (Book of Samuel)Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de BergeracRiot WomenGuy BoltonIra GershwinPandro S BermanGeorge StevensAllan ScottFred AstaireGinger RogersJoan FontaineGeorge BurnsGracie AllenReginald GardinerRay NobleIt's A Wonderful Life

Gwen Sheldon has stayed on the line to help me look at The Coming of Bill (1919, but really 1914), Also known as Their Mutual Child or The White Hope, it's a rare serious novel (though featuring some choice quips) with a plot supplied for Wodehouse by a helpful magazine editor called Bob Davis.There will be spoilers. Content note: discussion of eugenics, nazis, racism, death, and general bad times. (Surely some mistake? -Ed)You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.comforward me your spare Colombian gold at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor follow the show on Bluesky or FacebookPlease tell your friends about the show: our publicity budget was lost in some unwise stocks and shares shenanegans.Reference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookRichard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the EndDaniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in WodehouseMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteOther works by Wodehouse mentioned:My Man JeevesThe Man Upstairs and Other StoriesBring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)"A Prisoner of War"Piccadilly JimJill the Reckless"By Advice of Counsel""The Good Angel" "Love Me, Love My Dog" A Damsel in DistressThe Little NuggetThe Globe 'By the Way' BookThe Man With Two Left Feet and Other StoriesAlso mentioned: Bob DavisJack JohnsonJames JeffriesWodehouse's adopted daughter Leonora CazaletRembrandt van RijnThe Fresh Prince of Bel-AirL M Montgomery, The Blue CastleLemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate EventsShort musical snippets included or parodied:Noël Coward, "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans"Dire Straits, "Lady Writer" Helen Morgan, "Bill" (Wodehouse/Kern)Elvis Presley, "Old Shep"Nobuyoshi Koshibe and Katsuo Ohno, Theme from "Mysterious Cities of Gold"The Gothic Archies, "Scream and Run Away""Napoleon" (Wodehouse/Kern)Kimya Dawson, "It's Been Raining"Kenny Carter, "Showdown"The Seven Inches (my band) "Our Gang of Friends" and "Bad Genes"

Ian is re-rejoined by Gwen Sheldon to look at THE FIRST JEEVES BOOK (if you think it counts): My Man Jeeves, a UK only collection of eight short stories, half of which are among the earliest Jeeves stories, all set in New York. The other half are Reggie Pepper stories, Reggie being an early prototype of Bertie Wooster. We also look at the three other Reggie Pepper stories that were published in magazines but were left out of the book collections during The Master's lifetime. There will be spoilers. You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.comtip me at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor follow the show on Bluebook or FaceskyStories covered in this episode:"Leave it to Jeeves" "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg" "Absent Treatment""Helping Freddie""Rallying Round Old George""Doing Clarence a Bit of Good""The Aunt and the Sluggard" "Disentangling Old Percy""Concealed Art""The Test Case"Reference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookRichard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the EndDaniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in WodehouseMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteOther works by Wodehouse mentioned:The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesThe Man With Two Left Feet and Other StoriesCarry On JeevesThe Inimitable Jeeves"Jeeves Takes Charge""Extricating Young Gussie""Bertie Changes His Mind"The Adventures of Sally"Rough-Hew them How We Will"Love Among the ChickensSomething FreshA Gentleman of Leisure"The Fatal Kink in Algernon"Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit"Fixing it for Freddie"Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot"A Few Quick Ones (US version)"Deep Waters"Brother Alfred (play/film)Not George WashingtonThe Globe By the Way BookThank You JeevesPiccadilly Jim"George and Alfred"Plum Pie"Jeeves Makes an Omelette"A Few Quick Ones"The Wigmore Venus""Archibald's Benefit"Also alluded to: Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red GapIan Carmichael and Dennis Price, "What Would I Do Without You, Jeeves?"Bud Fisher, Mutt and JeffR Outcault, Buster BrownJames Sant, The Soul's AwakeningAgatha ChristieHerbert WestbrookN A KnoxF Opper, Happy HooliganLaurence GrossmithGeorge Grossmith Jr.George Grossmith Sr. and Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a NobodyLeslie Havergal BradshawCupid's Inspiration, "Yesterday Has Gone"Billy SundayDouglas Fairbanks Sr.Fred StoneMaking Good with MotherCutting Out VenusWorld of WoosterJeeves and WoosterHelen WodehouseGeorge Herriman, The Dingbat Family and Krazy KatThe Beatles, "Baby's in Black"Boost for Birdsburg!

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.You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.comtip me at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor follow the show on Bluesky or FacebookStories 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 46mOther works by Wodehouse mentionedThe Man Upstairs and Other StoriesPiccadilly JimSomething FreshThe Reggie Pepper stories"Three From Dunsterville""Deep Waters", "Fixing it for Freddie"The golf storiesThe Girl on the BoatBustanoby's"In Alkala""By Advice of Counsel""Something to Worry About""The Man Upstairs""The Man Who Disliked Cats"My Man JeevesThe Prince and BettyUneasy MoneyJoy in the MorningNuts and Wine (revue)A Man of MeansReference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookRichard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the EndMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteAlso mentionedGeorge Grossmith, Jr.Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red GapPercy JeevesLeslie Havergal BradshawThe Beatles, "Get Back"Magnetic Fields, "Goin' Back to the Country"O. HenryThe Golden Butterfly (film adaptation of "The Making of Mac's")M. F. Carey, "Learning McFadden to Waltz"Leonora CazaletDenis Mackail "At Mr Besley's"Do the Right Thing podcast

Ian is joined by Nigel Townshend to enthuse over 1917's Piccadilly Jim, a breakthrough novel for Wodehouse. Nigel voices his displeasure at the 2004 film version. There are plot spoilers. You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.comtip me at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor follow the show on Bluesky or FacebookOther works by Wodehouse mentionedLeave it to PsmithThe Little NuggetA Damsel in Distress (film screenplay)A Gentleman of Leisure"Concealed Art"The Riviera Girl (musical, with Guy Bolton and Emmerich Kalman)Bring On the Girls (memoir, with Guy Bolton)Love Among the Chickens"Rallying Round Old George"Anything Goes (musical)Reference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookBarry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. WodehouseLee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and KernMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums websiteAlso mentionedThe three film adaptations of the bookBlandings (TV series)New York GiantsThe Regent GrillYe Olde Cheshire CheeseHugh LaurieGeorge Herriman, "The Dingbat Family" & "Krazy Kat" comic stripsDelmonico'sBachelors' Club

Drop the Dead Monkey! Ian is joined by writer and artist Tom Bailey to look at 1916's Uneasy Money, Wodehouse's second serial for the Saturday Evening Post, which had a personal significance for Plum and Ethel Wodehouse, as it is set in Long Island, setting of their courtship and early married life; and like them, the hero and heroine are married at the "Church 'Round the Corner" on Madison Square, also the inspiration for the song of the same name by Wodehouse and Jerome Kern. Tom and Ian debate the merits or otherwise of Wodehouse's more romantic novels, and of romance stories in general.You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com,give me an unexpected legacy at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor join in the feast of reason and flow of soul on Bluesky or FacebookOther works by Wodehouse mentioned"Bill" (song)"At Geisenheimer's""Extricating Young Gussie"Something FreshPerforming FleaA Gentleman of LeisurePsmith JournalistThe Swoop"Church Round the Corner" (song) in SallyIndiscretions of ArchieBachelors AnonymousRing For Jeeves (the Jeeves novel without Bertie) Reference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookBarry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. WodehouseLee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and KernMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Also mentionedMichael BuerkNicolae CeaușescuBob PeckJeeves and WoosterDavid NobbsThe Rise and Fall of Reginald PerrinCharles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, Bleak House, Pickwick PapersOscar WildeGeorge EliotOlga Tokarczuk The Empusium, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of The DeadThomas Mann The Magic MountainMiguel de Cervantes, Don QuixoteHenry Fielding, Tom JonesLaurence Sterne, Tristam ShandyTobias SmollettJonathan CoeHonoré de BalzacEmile ZolaVanity Fair (US)Mary PoppinsF Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyEdna MayThe Belle of New York (Musical)Lady Constance MacKenzieSarah BernhardtHow to Make Millions Before Grandma DiesJohn Mortimer, The Rumpole storiesAlfred, Lord TennysonBartlett's Familiar QuotationsSuperman IIIHergé,the Tintin storiesIonicus (Joshua Charles Armitage)RashomonBringing Up BabyThe Church of the Transfiguration, New YorkAlice Fraser, A Passion For PassionGeorgette HeyerWhen Harry Met SallyNora Ephron, HeartburnSherlock Jr 

Host Ian Cockburn (of the Shropshire Cockburns) is rejoined by storyteller and writer Matthew Bellwood to discuss Psmith Journalist, the third Psmith novel, and one of the first of Wodehouse's novels to be set in America. The novel first appeared in The Captain from 1909-10 but didn't appear in book form till 1915, by which point it had already been repurposed in 1912 for the US version of The Prince and BettyA tale of yellow journalism in gangland New York. This podcast contains spoilers, and some discussion of racism.You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.comPut doubloons in the old oak chest at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor follow me on Bluesky or FacebookWodehousekeeping cannot be muzzledOther works by Wodehouse mentionedMike and PsmithThe Luck of the BodkinsPsmith in the CityThe Prince and BettyA Gentleman of LeisureThe Kid Brady storiesThe Little NuggetThe Luck Stone"The Episode of the Live Weekly" Reference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Also mentionedColumbo: Strange BedfellowsTwin PeaksThe GodfatherBoardwalk EmpireCharles Dickens, David CopperfieldColin From AccountsCarol VordermanTed Kessler, Paper CutsAl CaponeMonk EastmanGroucho MarxDoctor WhoSandie Shaw, "Reviewing the Situation"John Mitchell Jr.Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort FarmCole PorterNoël Coward