Uneasy Money with Tom Bailey

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.You can e-mail me at [email protected],give me an unexpected legacy at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeepingor join in the feast of reason and flow of soul on Bluesky or FacebookOther works by Wodehouse mentioned"Bill" (song)"At Geisenheimer's""Extricating Young Gussie"Something FreshPerforming FleaA Gentleman of LeisurePsmith JournalistThe Swoop"Church Round the Corner" (song) in SallyIndiscretions of ArchieBachelors AnonymousRing For Jeeves (the Jeeves novel without Bertie) Reference works consultedSophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in LettersRobert McCrum, Wodehouse: A LifeNorman Murphy, A Wodehouse HandbookBarry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. WodehouseLee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and KernMadame Eulalie's Rare Plums website Also mentionedMichael BuerkNicolae CeaușescuBob PeckJeeves and WoosterDavid NobbsThe Rise and Fall of Reginald PerrinCharles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, Bleak House, Pickwick PapersOscar WildeGeorge EliotOlga Tokarczuk The Empusium, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of The DeadThomas Mann The Magic MountainMiguel de Cervantes, Don QuixoteHenry Fielding, Tom JonesLaurence Sterne, Tristam ShandyTobias SmollettJonathan CoeHonoré de BalzacEmile ZolaVanity Fair (US)Mary PoppinsF Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyEdna MayThe Belle of New York (Musical)Lady Constance MacKenzieSarah BernhardtHow to Make Millions Before Grandma DiesJohn Mortimer, The Rumpole storiesAlfred, Lord TennysonBartlett's Familiar QuotationsSuperman IIIHergé,the Tintin storiesIonicus (Joshua Charles Armitage)RashomonBringing Up BabyThe Church of the Transfiguration, New YorkAlice Fraser, A Passion For PassionGeorgette HeyerWhen Harry Met SallyNora Ephron, HeartburnSherlock Jr  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.