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