The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on October 7, 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It was s
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, published in the United States on March 22, 1963 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on August 16, 1963 by Herbert Jenkins, L
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United Stat
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There's a New Broom at the Job Centre, and she's determined to sweep away all the little irregularities that make life just that much more comfortable for the local layabouts - sorry, "the long-term unemployed". Needless to say, they aren't too h
It's been a stressful day at the office, but Katie's home now and looking forward to a fun evening with her new date. Her cat Scheherazade knows all about stressful days.
In fact she knows a lot more than Katie imagines. Where her winning lotter
Back in the golden days of Variety, the Mangle Boys were big - one of the most successful song and dance acts on the halls. When they retired, Eddie Fitlow became an equally successful businessman ("From Mangles to Millions").
His partner Ernie Tu
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If you want to save your marriage it’s essential to talk to each other. Ann and Steve are good at talking, but hopeless at listening. Indeed, Ann has got to the stage where she lets the drink do the talking - and if that doesn’t work, there’s alway
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Connie and Victor have spent thousands on doing up their old house in Margate, and they expect to get a very good price for it. A prospective buyer is due in the morning - so why on earth did the burglar have to choose this night to break in, in se
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Ever since the long-gone golden age of railways - whenever that was - stations have needed porters. A special breed of men who, during those long periods between trains, can find endless tasks to perform along the platforms... yet can, with the app
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It’s June 1192 and King Richard is away on the Crusades as usual.
But let's get one thing straight. Our hero is Ronald of Bexley, not Robin of Loxley!
And his dastardly enemy is actually the Sheriff of Mottingham, with an M. (Oh, you know Motting
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We present the great naval hero - Nelson! No, not Horatio, but his less famous brother, Maurice, a lowly and rather resentful clerk at the Admiralty. Horatio has just walloped the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, but Maurice has an even more
The history of crime, as reconstructed by Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Emma Kennedy and Simon Greenall.
This episode, a send up of the The Name of the Rose.
This improv comedy quiz show began in 1998 under the title King Stupid, but only really came into its own when it was retitled The 99p Challenge and host William Vandyck was replaced by Sue Perkins.
First broadcast 20040110. First repeated 20100522.
The tiny (3 miles by 5 miles) European Duchy of Grand Fenwick, nestled in the Alps between Switzerland and France, proudly retains a pre-industrial economy, dependent almost entirely on making Pi
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The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. It then enjoyed a number of New York and London revivals.
BBC Radio version was first
