Michael Hordern and Richard Briers star as Jeeves and Wooster in six BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations.
P.G. Wodehouse (Author)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as 'Plum') wrote about
seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over
seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest
20th-century writer of humour in the English language.Perhaps best
known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse
also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth
and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories
include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge;
Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous
Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those
related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler's
Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.In 1936 he was awarded
the Mark Twain Prize for 'having made an outstanding and lasting
contribution to the happiness of the world'. He was made a Doctor
of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged
ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died
shortly afterwards, on St Valentine's Day.Various (Reader)
Various
a delightful, entertaining, and hilarious listen... Horden's
spot-on rendition of the brilliant Jeeves is appropriately refined
and demure, while Briers's portrayal of Wooster captures the
character's flighty, bumbling, and good-natured essence. *
Publisher's Weekly *
... a joy from first to last, delivered with absolutely the right
lightness of touch, full of fun, trivial yes, but utterly
enchanting -- 20/11/2009 * Chichester Observer *
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