Ian is joined by Alexander Rennie once more to look at the UK version of the novel The Prince and Betty (1912). The US version has a very different plot closely based on the earlier novel Psmith, Journalist (serialised 1909-1910, book version 1915). We touch lightly on the US version but the main discussion of it will follow in the episode on Psmith, Journalist.

Alexander's own podcast is Forgotten Towns

Other Wodehouse works mentioned

Psmith, Journalist

The Swoop

"The Good Angel" (AKA "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes")

A Gentleman of Leisure

Psmith in the City

The Prizegiving scene in Right Ho, Jeeves

The Steggles stories in The Inimitable Jeeves

The J. Washburn Stoker character in Thank You, Jeeves

Also mentioned

Mills and Boon

Boris Karloff

Ellaline Terriss

Seymour Hicks

The Monégasque Revolution of 1910

Carry On Films

Stephen Leacock, "Gertrude the Governess"

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Yes Minister

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Kigeli V Ndahindurwa of Rwanda

Reference works consulted

Daniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (Third Expanded Edition)

Neil Midkiff's notes on the different versions at Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

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

Wodehousekeeping Podcast links

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