Wodehousekeeping

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Ian Cockburn and guests discuss the work of P. G. Wodehouse, one book at a time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. A Damsel in Distress with Josh Cockburn

    5 DAYS AGO

    A Damsel in Distress with Josh Cockburn

    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 otherwise Furnish me with the needful at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping Join in the feast of reason and flow of soul on Bluesky or Facebook Reference works consulted Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the End Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Wikipedia and IMDb Other works by Wodehouse mentioned: A Gentleman of Leisure Something Fresh A Damsel in Distress (play and film adaptations) The Girl Behind the Gun (show) "The Good Angel" "Love Me, Love My Dog" Something Fishy Summer Lightning Bachelors Anonymous "Sir Agravaine" The Prince and Betty "Avenged!" "Extricating Young Gussie" Piccadilly Jim Uneasy Money Spring Fever The Code of the Woosters Jill the Reckless Miss 1917 (show) Oh Kay (show) Rosalie (show) Also mentioned:  Ian Hay Basil Foster W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That George Gershwin Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Bollywood adaptation) Maud and Ivan Caryll Euros Childs, "Thrips" Jerome Kern Taskmaster Reece Shearsmith Mary Deane The Regal Theatre Alice Dovey Anton Chekhov Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Enid Blyton Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends Lewis Carroll, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" Alfred, Lord Tennyson Machiavelli David and Jonathan (Book of Samuel) Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac Riot Women Guy Bolton Ira Gershwin Pandro S Berman George Stevens Allan Scott Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Joan Fontaine George Burns Gracie Allen Reginald Gardiner Ray Noble It's A Wonderful Life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 46min
  2. The Coming of Bill with Gwen Sheldon

    31 MAR

    The Coming of Bill with Gwen Sheldon

    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.com forward me your spare Colombian gold at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping or follow the show on Bluesky or Facebook Please tell your friends about the show: our publicity budget was lost in some unwise stocks and shares shenanegans. Reference works consulted Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the End Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Other works by Wodehouse mentioned: My Man Jeeves The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Bring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton) "A Prisoner of War" Piccadilly Jim Jill the Reckless "By Advice of Counsel" "The Good Angel"  "Love Me, Love My Dog"  A Damsel in Distress The Little Nugget The Globe 'By the Way' Book The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories Also mentioned:  Bob Davis Jack Johnson James Jeffries Wodehouse's adopted daughter Leonora Cazalet Rembrandt van Rijn The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air L M Montgomery, The Blue Castle Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Short 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" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 33min
  3. My Man Jeeves (and the Reggie Pepper stories) with Gwen Sheldon

    1 MAR

    My Man Jeeves (and the Reggie Pepper stories) with Gwen Sheldon

    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.com tip me at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping or follow the show on Bluebook or Facesky Stories 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 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 Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Other works by Wodehouse mentioned: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories Carry On Jeeves The 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 Chickens Something Fresh A 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 Washington The Globe By the Way Book Thank You Jeeves Piccadilly 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 Gap Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price, "What Would I Do Without You, Jeeves?" Bud Fisher, Mutt and Jeff R Outcault, Buster Brown James Sant, The Soul's Awakening Agatha Christie Herbert Westbrook N A Knox F Opper, Happy Hooligan Laurence Grossmith George Grossmith Jr. George Grossmith Sr. and Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody Leslie Havergal Bradshaw Cupid's Inspiration, "Yesterday Has Gone" Billy Sunday Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Fred Stone Making Good with Mother Cutting Out Venus World of Wooster Jeeves and Wooster Helen Wodehouse George Herriman, The Dingbat Family and Krazy Kat The Beatles, "Baby's in Black" Boost for Birdsburg! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 46min
  4. The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

    1 FEB

    The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

    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.com tip me at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping or follow the show on Bluesky or Facebook 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2hr 1min
  5. Piccadilly Jim with Nigel Townshend

    01/11/2025

    Piccadilly Jim with Nigel Townshend

    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.com tip me at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping or follow the show on Bluesky or Facebook Other works by Wodehouse mentioned Leave it to Psmith The Little Nugget A 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 consulted Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Also mentioned The three film adaptations of the book Blandings (TV series) New York Giants The Regent Grill Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Hugh Laurie George Herriman, "The Dingbat Family" & "Krazy Kat" comic strips Delmonico's Bachelors' Club Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 44min
  6. Uneasy Money with Tom Bailey

    30/09/2025

    Uneasy Money with Tom Bailey

    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/wodehousekeeping or join in the feast of reason and flow of soul on Bluesky or Facebook Other works by Wodehouse mentioned "Bill" (song) "At Geisenheimer's" "Extricating Young Gussie" Something Fresh Performing Flea A Gentleman of Leisure Psmith Journalist The Swoop "Church Round the Corner" (song) in Sally Indiscretions of Archie Bachelors Anonymous Ring For Jeeves (the Jeeves novel without Bertie)   Reference works consulted Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website   Also mentioned Michael Buerk Nicolae Ceaușescu Bob Peck Jeeves and Wooster David Nobbs The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, Bleak House, Pickwick Papers Oscar Wilde George Eliot Olga Tokarczuk The Empusium, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of The Dead Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy Tobias Smollett Jonathan Coe Honoré de Balzac Emile Zola Vanity Fair (US) Mary Poppins F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Edna May The Belle of New York (Musical) Lady Constance MacKenzie Sarah Bernhardt How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies John Mortimer, The Rumpole stories Alfred, Lord Tennyson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Superman III Hergé,the Tintin stories Ionicus (Joshua Charles Armitage) Rashomon Bringing Up Baby The Church of the Transfiguration, New York Alice Fraser, A Passion For Passion Georgette Heyer When Harry Met Sally Nora Ephron, Heartburn Sherlock Jr   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2h 13m
  7. Psmith Journalist with Matthew Bellwood

    31/08/2025

    Psmith Journalist with Matthew Bellwood

    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 Betty A 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.com Put doubloons in the old oak chest at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping or follow me on Bluesky or Facebook Wodehousekeeping cannot be muzzled Other works by Wodehouse mentioned Mike and Psmith The Luck of the Bodkins Psmith in the City The Prince and Betty A Gentleman of Leisure The Kid Brady stories The Little Nugget The Luck Stone "The Episode of the Live Weekly"   Reference works consulted Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website   Also mentioned Columbo: Strange Bedfellows Twin Peaks The Godfather Boardwalk Empire Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Colin From Accounts Carol Vorderman Ted Kessler, Paper Cuts Al Capone Monk Eastman Groucho Marx Doctor Who Sandie Shaw, "Reviewing the Situation" John Mitchell Jr. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm Cole Porter Noël Coward   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 17min
  8. Something Fresh with Tania Agnihotri

    31/07/2025

    Something Fresh with Tania Agnihotri

    Ian is joined by Tania Agnihotri to look at Something Fresh, AKA Something New, the first Blandings novel, published 1915. The book introduces the immortal Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Beach the butler and the Efficient Baxter, though much of the focus is on this month's imposters at the castle. Content note: bad American accents. You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com make a donation at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping or follow or contact me on Bluesky or Facebook Other works by Wodehouse mentioned: The Mr Mulliner Stories "The Story of Webster" "The Truth About George" Mike and Psmith (part two of Mike) The Ukridge stories Love Among the Chickens The Luck Stone "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes" "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" "A Man of Means: The Episode of the Hired Past" Psmith in the City "The Crime Wave At Blandings" The Reggie Pepper stories "Ruth in Exile" Right Ho, Jeeves "Pearls Means Tears" "Strychnine in the Soup" Leave it to Psmith "The Goalkeeper and the Plutocrat" "A Man of Means: The Episode of the Live Weekly" "A Pal Like You" from Oh, Boy! Reference works consulted Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook Paul Kent, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Also mentioned Saki, "Mrs Packletide's Tiger" George Ade Herbert W. Westbrook William Townend Samuel Johnson ("A man who is tired of London...") Alfred Harmsworth Simpson's in the Strand Philip Peveril Wodehouse Georgette Heyer J M Barrie, The Admirable Crichton Jeeves and Wooster (TV series) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2h 3m
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Ian Cockburn and guests discuss the work of P. G. Wodehouse, one book at a time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    iandishes
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
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