EPISODE · Jun 17, 2025 · 1H 37M
The Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means
from Wodehousekeeping
A solo episode. Ian delves into two short story cycles, The Kid Brady stories (1905-7) and A Man Of Means (1914, with C. H. Bovill) which posthumously were collected into a single volume. The Kid Brady stories are boxing tales set in New York, while A Man of Means is a quasi-novella wherein a hapless clerk from Bury St Edmonds inadvertently keeps getting richer and richer. There will be spoilers.CN: brief discussion of racismOther Wodehouse works mentionedOver SeventyPsmith JournalistThe Prince and Betty The Gold BatThe White FeatherThe Coming of Bill AKA The White HopeThe Reggie Pepper StoriesThe Inimitable JeevesThe Indiscretions of ArchieSomething FreshNot George Washington (with H W Westbrook)Nuts and Wine (Revue) (with C H Bovill)The Globe By The Way Book (with H W Westbrook)Big MoneyBachelors AnonymousBring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)Reference works consulted or mentionedmadameeulalie.orgNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookGarrison and Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (third edition)David Jasen P. G. Wodehouse: Portrait of a Master Also mentionedKid McCoyToo many other real life boxers to mentionJack Johnson vs James J JeffriesDamon RunyanRandy Newman, Short People (song)Harold Begbie, The Curious and Diverting Adventures of Sir John Sparrow, Bart. Charles Dickens, David CopperfieldSeymour Hicks, The Gay Gordons (musical comedy)Phyllis BedellsC H Bovill, Honi Soit (revue)Miguel de Cervantes, Don QuixoteTobias Smollett, Roderick RandomCharles Dickens, The Pickwick PapersGeorge Barr McCutcheon, Brewster's Millions The Bumpkin Billionaires, comic strip originally in Whoopee comicGuglielmo MarconiWodehousekeeping Podcast linksWodehousekeeping on BlueskyWodehousekeeping on FacebookBuy me a coffee on Ko-fiemail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A solo episode. Ian delves into two short story cycles, The Kid Brady stories (1905-7) and A Man Of Means (1914, with C. H. Bovill) which posthumously were collected into a single volume. The Kid Brady stories are boxing tales set in New York, while A Man of Means is a quasi-novella wherein a hapless clerk from Bury St Edmonds inadvertently keeps getting richer and richer. There will be spoilers.CN: brief discussion of racismOther Wodehouse works mentionedOver SeventyPsmith JournalistThe Prince and Betty The Gold BatThe White FeatherThe Coming of Bill AKA The White HopeThe Reggie Pepper StoriesThe Inimitable JeevesThe Indiscretions of ArchieSomething FreshNot George Washington (with H W Westbrook)Nuts and Wine (Revue) (with C H Bovill)The Globe By The Way Book (with H W Westbrook)Big MoneyBachelors AnonymousBring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)Reference works consulted or mentionedmadameeulalie.orgNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookGarrison and Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (third edition)David Jasen P. G. Wodehouse: Portrait of a Master Also mentionedKid McCoyToo many other real life boxers to mentionJack Johnson vs James J JeffriesDamon RunyanRandy Newman, Short People (song)Harold Begbie, The Curious and Diverting Adventures of Sir John Sparrow, Bart. Charles Dickens, David CopperfieldSeymour Hicks, The Gay Gordons (musical comedy)Phyllis BedellsC H Bovill, Honi Soit (revue)Miguel de Cervantes, Don QuixoteTobias Smollett, Roderick RandomCharles Dickens, The Pickwick PapersGeorge Barr McCutcheon, Brewster's Millions The Bumpkin Billionaires, comic strip originally in Whoopee comicGuglielmo MarconiWodehousekeeping Podcast linksWodehousekeeping on BlueskyWodehousekeeping on FacebookBuy me a coffee on Ko-fiemail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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