Episode 143: P.G. Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes

by Scott Monty April 30, 2018

"fixed like a plum" [SIXN]

The casual reader wouldn't necessarily associate Sherlock Holmes with P.G. Wodehouse. Or P.G. Woodhouse with Sherlock Holmes. Fortunately, we're more of the formal types.

And so are our guests!

Three – count 'em, three – guests join us this time around. They are Curtis Armstrong, Elliot Milstein, and Ashley Polasek, and they are the two authors and editor of A Plum Assignment: Discourses on P.G. Wodehouse and His World. They are Wodehouse experts who also happen to (mostly) have more than a passing familiarity with Sherlock Holmes.

We spend some time with them looking at the intersection of Plum and Conan Doyle's works, and also look at why Wodehouse was so universally enjoyable and why we keep returning to his stories again and again. And how Sherlockians and Wodehousians are remarkably similar in their interactions. The book itself has a survey of opening lines from Wodehouse works, where you'll find such gems as:

I reached out a hand from under the blankets and rang the bell for Jeeves.
"Good evening, Jeeves."
"Good morning, sir."

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Links

This episode: ihose.co/ihose143
Curtis Armstrong on Episode 125 and on Twitter
Ashley Polasek on Episode 70 and on Twitter
Elliott Milstein on Twitter
The Wodehouse Society (TWS)
The PG Wodehouse Society (UK)
Some classic P.G. Wodehouse quotes
A Plum Assignment by Curtis Armstrong and Elliot Milstein, edited by Ashley Polasek (Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Booktopia | Foyles)

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