Ian is rejoined by his brother Josh to scrutinise "Psmith in the City" AKA "The New Fold", the second Psmith novel, serialised in 1908-9 and collected in book form in 1910. It is a highly autobiographical account of reluctantly working in a London bank. Mike and Psmith's schooldays are behind them, but Mike is still fixated on cricket and Psmith is still out to cause disruption wherever possible. There will be spoilers and a soupçon of politics. Special thanks to the website Madam Eulalie's Rare Plums.
Article mentioned in the show that helped explain the reference to the Unionist party
Bradshaw's interview with Wodehouse, quoted in the episode
Mark Hodson's annotations of the novel
Other Wodehouse books and stories mentioned
The Gold Bat
Mike at Wrykyn (Jackson Junior)
Mike and Psmith (The Lost Lambs)
Psmith Journalist
Leave it to Psmith
Big Money
Not George Washington
Over Seventy (Autobiography)
The Luck Stone
The Swoop
Money in the Bank
"The Goalkeeper and the Plutocrat"
"L'affaire Uncle John"
"Comrade Bingo"
Wodehouse reference books mentioned and/or consulted
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Also mentioned
The Fosters of Worcestershire
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Leslie Havergal Bradshaw
Hall Caine
Manchester United
Jimmy and Tom Turnbull
Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
George Ade
Jack Hobbs
The Marx Brothers
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