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Wodehouse Wednesdays: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

Another lockdown, another double-bill of Wodehouse Wednesdays - but not quite as you know it. John de Falbe reads from Ben Schott's latest homage to Plum: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith. 

 

Edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher 

Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard

Johnny interviews Sir Tom, while Dame Hermione - a leading literary biographer - gives a short introduction to her new book.

 

Edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: William Bolcom, Graceful Ghost Rag

William Boyd: Trio

Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio… Click here to order a copy of Will Boyd's latest novel

 

Edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: Cream, Badges 

Martin Latham: The Bookseller's Tale

Do you write in the margins? Have you lied about reading War and Peace? Which books are your 'comfort reads'? 

Martin Latham muses with Johnny on a life spent around books. 

 

Edited by Magnus Rena

Judith Herrin: Ravenna

Johnny chats to the illustrious academic about her dazzling new book, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. 

 

Edited by Magnus Rena

Loyd Grossman: An Elephant in Rome

To accompany the publication of his new book, Loyd (an old friend of the shop) talks about Baroque Rome... in all its rich papal splendour.

 

Edited by Magnus Rena 

 

Music: Federico Maria Sardelli, Fuga Prima 

David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue

David chats to Johnny about his latest novel: a gorgeous, rich, magnificent imagining of a 1960s pop group...

 

Edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: Fairport Convention, Who Knows Where The Time Goes 

Wodehouse Wednesdays 10.2: Pining for Pongo

From P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Dynamite.

 

Read by John de Falbe, edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher

Wodehouse Wednesdays 10.1: Next Stop, Ashenden

From P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Dynamite. 

 

Read by John de Falbe, edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher

Wodehouse Wednesdays 9.3: Good Old Blackmail

From P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters 

 

Read by John de Falbe, edited by Magnus Rena

 

Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher