Radio adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's 1923 novel.
First broadcast 5th October 1981.
Blandings stands as ever, bathed in fragrant and gentle summer. Love shimmers, skulduggery lurks. Lord Emsworth desperately attempts to escape the efficient Baxter and the place seems rife with poets doing poems. Then, of course, someone steals that necklace...
The Author: John Gielgud
Lord Emsworth: Michael Hordern
Lady Constance: Joan Greenwood
Psmith: Simon Ward
Baxter: Christopher Godwin
Freddie: David Troughton
Joe Keeble: Bryan Pringle
Beach: Ellis Dale
Eve: Caroline Langrishe
Miss Peavey: Zoe Wanamaker
Cootes: Stuart Milligan
McTodd: Peter Marinker
Susan: Alex Marshall
Briggs: Alan Dudley
Newspaper employee: Haydn Wood
Flowered waistcoat: Michael Spice
Snuff-coloured suit: George Parsons
Waiter: Ronald Herdman
Young lady: Patience Tomlinson
Young man: Spencer Banks
Adapted by Michael Bakewell
Director: Peter King
First broadcast 5th October 1981.
Blandings stands as ever, bathed in fragrant and gentle summer. Love shimmers, skulduggery lurks. Lord Emsworth desperately attempts to escape the efficient Baxter and the place seems rife with poets doing poems. Then, of course, someone steals that necklace...
The Author: John Gielgud
Lord Emsworth: Michael Hordern
Lady Constance: Joan Greenwood
Psmith: Simon Ward
Baxter: Christopher Godwin
Freddie: David Troughton
Joe Keeble: Bryan Pringle
Beach: Ellis Dale
Eve: Caroline Langrishe
Miss Peavey: Zoe Wanamaker
Cootes: Stuart Milligan
McTodd: Peter Marinker
Susan: Alex Marshall
Briggs: Alan Dudley
Newspaper employee: Haydn Wood
Flowered waistcoat: Michael Spice
Snuff-coloured suit: George Parsons
Waiter: Ronald Herdman
Young lady: Patience Tomlinson
Young man: Spencer Banks
Adapted by Michael Bakewell
Director: Peter King
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