Drop the Dead Monkey! Ian is joined by writer and artist Tom Bailey to look at 1916's Uneasy Money, Wodehouse's second serial for the Saturday Evening Post, which had a personal significance for Plum and Ethel Wodehouse, as it is set in Long Island, setting of their courtship and early married life; and like them, the hero and heroine are married at the "Church 'Round the Corner" on Madison Square, also the inspiration for the song of the same name by Wodehouse and Jerome Kern. Tom and Ian debate the merits or otherwise of Wodehouse's more romantic novels, and of romance stories in general.

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Other works by Wodehouse mentioned

"Bill" (song)

"At Geisenheimer's"

"Extricating Young Gussie"

Something Fresh

Performing Flea

A Gentleman of Leisure

Psmith Journalist

The Swoop

"Church Round the Corner" (song) in Sally

Indiscretions of Archie

Bachelors Anonymous

Ring For Jeeves (the Jeeves novel without Bertie)

Reference works consulted

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

Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse

Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern

Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website

Also mentioned

Michael Buerk

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Bob Peck

Jeeves and Wooster

David Nobbs

The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, Bleak House, Pickwick Papers

Oscar Wilde

George Eliot

Olga Tokarczuk The Empusium, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of The Dead

Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy

Tobias Smollett

Jonathan Coe

Honoré de Balzac

Emile Zola

Vanity Fair (US)

Mary Poppins

F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Edna May

The Belle of New York (Musical)

Lady Constance MacKenzie

Sarah Bernhardt

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

John Mortimer, The Rumpole stories

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Superman III

Hergé,the Tintin stories

Ionicus (Joshua Charles Armitage)

Rashomon

Bringing Up Baby

The Church of the Transfiguration, New York

Alice Fraser, A Passion For Passion

Georgette Heyer

When Harry Met Sally

Nora Ephron, Heartburn

Sherlock Jr

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