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Reset my password after a long time lurking just to say: the BBC radio plays of Jeeves & Wooster, with Richard Briers playing the role of Bertie Wooster, are the best way to experience these stories. Fabulous acting. Far, far better than the Hugh & Laurie series from the 90s. The heavily adapted BBC TV series Blandings is also hilarious.
Reset my password after a long time lurking just to say: the BBC radio plays of Jeeves & Wooster, with Richard Briers playing the role of Bertie Wooster, are the best way to experience these stories. Fabulous acting. Far, far better than the Hugh & Laurie series from the 90s. The heavily adapted BBC TV series Blandings is also hilarious.
Reset my password after a long time lurking just to say: the BBC radio plays of Jeeves & Wooster, with Richard Briers playing the role of Bertie Wooster, are the best way to experience these stories. Fabulous acting. Far, far better than the Hugh & Laurie series from the 90s. The heavily adapted BBC TV series Blandings is also hilarious.
Which story do you recommend first?
Reset my password after a long time lurking just to say: the BBC radio plays of Jeeves & Wooster, with Richard Briers playing the role of Bertie Wooster, are the best way to experience these stories. Fabulous acting. Far, far better than the Hugh & Laurie series from the 90s. The heavily adapted BBC TV series Blandings is also hilarious.
Which story do you recommend first?
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=wodehouse
while the Jeeves and Wooster novels are fantastic, I found the bean stories to be quite amusing as well.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/01/wartime-for-wo...
I never picked Wodehouse for a prisoner of war. But I guess he handled it with characteristic aplomb.
That article inspired me to search for the Fry and Laurie series. It's not being streamed on any of the popular platforms but I did find some decent quality uploads on Youtube. My wife and I have enjoyed it immensely. I think I discovered why it hasn't been picked up by any of the online platforms when we got to the blackface episode in season 2.
A different era, in two respects I suppose, and all that. Unfortunate nevertheless. Anyone know where I could find the BBC radio episodes online?
Discovered him a few years ago, incredibly funny. If you want to escape the worries of modern times, highly recommend.
> “The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
(Roderick Spode is a parody or Oswald Mosley, the head of the then current British Union of Fascists)
There was also an interesting New Yorker article on Wodehouse recently about his experience as a Nazi captive: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/01/wartime-for-wo... I never picked Wodehouse for a prisoner of war. But I guess he handled it with characteristic aplomb. That article inspired me to search for the Fry and Laurie series. It's not being streamed on any of the popular platforms but I did find some d…