Ian Cockburn is joined by his old friend Nigel Townshend to dissect Agatha Christie's favourite Wodehouse novel The Little Nugget (1913). A tale of kipnapping at an English private preparatory school, presumably inspired by Wodehouse's time as a guest at Emsworth House school. There will be spoilers.

Other Wodehouse works mentioned

Piccadilly Jim

Full Moon

Thank You, Jeeves

The Luck Stone

The Eighteen-Carat Kid (variant version of The Little Nugget)

The Indiscretions of Archie

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Psmith Journalist

Also mentioned

The Beano and Dandy comics

The BBC radio Jeeves adaptations with Richard Briers and Michael Hordern

Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

Baldwin King-Hall

Herbert Westbrook

King Cophetua

Harry Hershfield, Desperate Desmond (comic strip)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Reference works consulted

madameeulalie.org

Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life

Garrison and Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse volume 3

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

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

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