Blandings Castle! YES!

[Andrew_Culture]

I am somewhat giddy with child-like excitement about the fact that the BBC will shortly air their adaptation of a couple of stories from one of my favourite P.G.Wodehouse series 'Blandings Castle'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/29/bbc-downton-pg-wodehouse

Now what I'd really love to see would be some of the 'Uncle Fred' stories being adapted to the screen.

Which Wodehouse stories would you like to see?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I've just spotted that Baxter is going to be in a couple of episodes, so hopefully they'll be doing the brilliant 'Crimewave at Blandings' story.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

[QUOTE 2233618, member: 259"]I'm ashamed to say I've only ever read the Jeeves ones. But I didn't like the Fry and Laurie adaptations much - Wooster is too much of a prat and Jeeves is far too overplayed. I don't remember the previous series as I'm too young. I'll have to read some of the Blandings ones.[/quote]

Having read enough Wodehouse to cause minor brain damage I agree, I did like the Fry and Laurie versions but they were very unkind to poor old Bertie.

'The Crimewave at Blandings' is a great short story to introduce you. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_crime_wave_at_Blandings.html

 

[mangaman]

I'm rather fond of "Leave it to Psmith" although the other Psmith ones aren't the best.

I suppose it is a Blandings novel too - most of the action happenening there

Still not a patch on early Jeeves and Wooster - especially "Right Ho, Jeeves" - Gussie's performance at the prizegiving at Market Snodsbury Grammar School never fails to lift the spirits.

I quite like the "Oldest member" golf stories as well

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I'm rather fond of "Leave it to Psmith" although the other Psmith ones aren't the best.

I suppose it is a Blandings novel too - most of the action happenening there

Still not a patch on early Jeeves and Wooster - especially "Right Ho, Jeeves" - Gussie's performance at the prizegiving at Market Snodsbury Grammar School never fails to lift the spirits.

I quite like the "Oldest member" golf stories as well

Psmith is one of the only 'brands' I haven't read yet, I think Blandings was Wodehouse's favourite to write about. 'Uncle Fred in the Springtime' is my favourite novel, and most of the action for that happens at Blandings.

 

[Hotblack Desiato]

Psmith, Journalist wasn't at all bad IMO. Nor Psmith in the City.

 

[mangaman]

Psmith is one of the only 'brands' I haven't read yet, I think Blandings was Wodehouse's favourite to write about. 'Uncle Fred in the Springtime' is my favourite novel, and most of the action for that happens at Blandings.

I would ignore the early Psmiths - not to my tastes (edit - sorry Hotblack Desiato)

"Leave it to Psmith" is good - I read somewhere the charactors of Jeeves and Wooster were based on the charactor of Psmith.

Psmith is clever (like Jeeves) and very likeable in a slightly buffoonish, Drones Club member way (like Bertram) and Wodehouse couldn't write a convincing charactor in the 1st person that would act like Bertie but have the wisdom of Jeeves, so he split the personality of Psmith into two.

 

[Falwheeler]

Love Wodehouse,read most of his stuff and loved the Fry Laurie series. A bit OTT but huge fun

 

[Andrew_Culture]

This starts tonight at 6.30pm. Wa-hoo!

 

[vernon]

This starts tonight at 6.30pm. Wa-hoo!

And very entertaining it was too!

I loved the line: "He's so crooked he could hide behind a spiral staircase"

I was salivating over the potential source of many a bacon butty!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

And very entertaining it was too!

I loved the line: "He's so crooked he could hide behind a spiral staircase"

I was salivating over the potential source of many a bacon butty!

I was so relieved it wasn't cack! I'm going to have to watch it again to soak up the language.

 

[deanE]

It was Wodehouse, but didn’t think much of the production. Will give it another chance though.

 

[Primal Scream]

Nice gentle understated humour, not in your face, quietly enjoyable

 

[summerdays]

I missed it but it is repeated tonight, so I have it set to record.

 

[Hotblack Desiato]

I would ignore the early Psmiths - not to my tastes (edit - sorry Hotblack Desiato)

That is a tricky proposition: that not having been to your taste they should be ignored by all and sundry! Why?! For myself, having left school to work in a boring office, Psmith in the City certainly struck a chord - if only I had been a Psmith - for Wodehouse too, the story is semi-biographical. Psmith Journalist OTOH was totally outside my experience but even so the picture of the corrupt side of New York was excellently employed as a setting by Wodehouse who must have known a thing or two about it.
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