Prof Sophie Ratcliffe and Joanna Neary - PG Wodehouse Special
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Recorded live at the Bristol Old Vic as part of the Slapstick Festival, Robin chats with Prof Sophie Ratcliffe and Joanna Neary about the work, and slapstick credentials, of PG Wodehouse. They chat about his letters (collected and edited in a volume by Sophie), turns of phrase and favourite Jeeves and Wooster moments. There’s also chat of Joanna’s character Celia, Sophie’s new book about about life, death, love and trains, Mills and Boons and much more.
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Reading List
Robin recommends:
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
eYE Marty by Marty Feldman
Stormy Vigil by Elizabeth Graham
Where the Wolf Leads by Jane Arbor
Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club by Robin Ince
Sing Loft by Don Estelle
Frozen Heart by Daphne Clair
Jungle Doctor by Vivian Stuart
Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
The Thin Man series by Dashiell Hammett
My Better Half and Me by Josh Ackland
Attacks of Opinion by Terry Jones and Gerald Scarfe
The work of Terry Jones
Sophie recommends:
Long Players by Peter Coviello
Afterglow (A Dog Memoir) by Eileen Myles
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
The Lost Properties of Love by Sophie Ratcliffe
Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend by PG Wodehouse
Jo recommends:
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Carry On, Jeeves by PG Woodhouse
Joy in the Morning by PG Woodhouse
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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