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
Wodehousekeeping Podcast links
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