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Blandings (A BBC Comedy) #3
Blandings: Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend:
EPISODE 3 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS
Disaster at the annual fete at Blandings Castle.
It is the annual fete at Blandings Castle, and Connie will again force Clarence to wear a miserable top-hat and make a speech. To top it off, he is banned from picking his favourite flowers by terrifying head-gardener McAllister.
However, Clarence befriends Gladys and Ern, two cheeky school-children who encourage him to do what he wants. Connie is of course scandalised, and brings her howitzers to bear on the ghastly intruders.
Freddie - needing to tap his old man for some cash - tries to help Clarence and the children and inevitably makes everything worse.
'Sublime comic genius'
Ben Elton
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.'
Stephen Fry
'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper.'
Hugh Laurie
'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection.'
Julian Fellowes
29 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 4, 2013
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P.G. Wodehouse
1,469 books6,743 followersSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
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The curveball of the Reading Adventure line-up, this is a tight, heartwarming, comedic story with a very satisfying little arc about standing up for what’s right for you. It was a great little world in which to spend some time, full of excellent lines such as, “He drank his coffee with the air of a man who regretted it was not hemlock” and humorous observations of its characters. A notable example is comparing the obedience of Gladys’ dog to his initial capitulation to the gardeners wishes about putting gravel down in the Yew Alley.
The curveball of the Reading Adventure line-up, this is a tight, heartwarming, comedic story with a very satisfying little arc about standing up for what’s right for you. It was a great little world in which to spend some time, full of excellent lines such as, “He drank his coffee with the air of a man who regretted it was not hemlock” and humorous observations of its characters. A notable example is comparing the obedience of Gladys’ dog to his initial capitulation to the gardeners wishes about putting gravel down in the Yew Alley.
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