Psmith Journalist with Matthew Bellwood
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Host Ian Cockburn (of the Shropshire Cockburns) is rejoined by storyteller and writer Matthew Bellwood to discuss [i]Psmith Journalist[/i], the third Psmith novel, and one of the first of Wodehouse's novels to be set in America. The novel first appeared in [i]The Captain[/i] 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 [i]The Prince and Betty[/i]
A tale of yellow journalism in gangland New York.
This podcast contains spoilers, and some discussion of racism.
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Other works by Wodehouse mentioned:
[i]Mike and Psmith[/i]
[i]The Luck of the Bodkins[/i]
[i]Psmith in the City[/i]
[i]The Prince and Betty[/i]
[i]A Gentleman of Leisure[/i]
The [i]Kid Brady[/i] stories
[i]The Little Nugget[/i]
[i]The Luck Stone[/i]
"The Episode of the Live Weekly"
Reference works consulted:
Sophie Ratcliffe, [i]P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters[/i]
Robert McCrum, [i]Wodehouse: A Life[/i]
Norman Murphy, [i]A Wodehouse Handbook[/i]
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Also mentioned:
[i]Columbo, Strange Bedfellows[/i]
[i]Twin Peaks[/i]
[i]The Godfather[/i]
[i]Boardwalk Empire[/i]
Charles Dickens, [i]David Copperfield[/i]
[i]Colin From Accounts[/i]
Carol Vorderman
Ted Kessler, [i]Paper Cuts[/i]
Al Capone
Monk Eastman
Groucho Marx
[i]Doctor Who[/i]
Sandie Shaw, "Reviewing the Situation"
John Mitchell Jr.
Stella Gibbons, [i]Cold Comfort Farm[/i]
Cole Porter
Noël Coward
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