These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominyâwith various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: âAllâs Well with Bingo,â âBingo and the Peke Crisis,â âThe Editor Regrets,â âSonny Boy,â âAnselm Gets His Chance,â âRomance at Droitgate Spa,â âA Bit of Luck for Mabel,â âButtercup Day,â and âUkridge and the Old Stepper.â
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881â1975) was an English writer best known for his humorous novels and plays with such memorable characters as, Psmith, Mr. Mulliner, Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves. A prolific writer with some ninety books, forty plays, and two hundred short stories to his credit, he has been described as a âcomic poetâ with a gift for high farce.
Jonathan Cecil (1939â2011) was a vastly experienced actor, appearing at Shakespeareâs Globe as well as in such West End productions as The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, and The Bed before Yesterday. He toured in The Incomparable Max, Twelfth Night, and An Ideal Husband, while among his considerable television and film appearances were The Rectorâs Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.