Ian is joined again by his brother Josh to talk about P. G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress, the 1919 standalone novel that has a lot of similiarites to a Blandings Novel. It also features the return of Keggs (The Man Upstairs, The Coming of Bill) and the themes of medieval-style chivalry, class snobbery and musical theatre. We also talk about the 1937 film version, starring Fred Astaire, featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and a screenplay co-written by Wodehouse.

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Reference works consulted

Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life

Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the End

Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse

Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern

Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse

Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website

Wikipedia and IMDb

Other works by Wodehouse mentioned:

A Gentleman of Leisure

Something Fresh

A Damsel in Distress (play and film adaptations)

The Girl Behind the Gun (show)

"The Good Angel"

"Love Me, Love My Dog"

Something Fishy

Summer Lightning

Bachelors Anonymous

"Sir Agravaine"

The Prince and Betty

"Avenged!"

"Extricating Young Gussie"

Piccadilly Jim

Uneasy Money

Spring Fever

The Code of the Woosters

Jill the Reckless

Miss 1917 (show)

Oh Kay (show)

Rosalie (show)

Also mentioned: 

Ian Hay

Basil Foster

W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That

George Gershwin

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Bollywood adaptation)

Maud and Ivan Caryll

Euros Childs, "Thrips"

Jerome Kern

Taskmaster

Reece Shearsmith

Mary Deane

The Regal Theatre

Alice Dovey

Anton Chekhov

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Enid Blyton

Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends

Lewis Carroll, "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Machiavelli

David and Jonathan (Book of Samuel)

Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

Riot Women

Guy Bolton

Ira Gershwin

Pandro S Berman

George Stevens

Allan Scott

Fred Astaire

Ginger Rogers

Joan Fontaine

George Burns

Gracie Allen

Reginald Gardiner

Ray Noble

It's A Wonderful Life

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