Ian is joined by Tania Agnihotri to look at Something Fresh, AKA Something New, the first Blandings novel, published 1915. The book introduces the immortal Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Beach the butler and the Efficient Baxter, though much of the focus is on this month's imposters at the castle. Content note: bad American accents.

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Other works by Wodehouse mentioned:

The Mr Mulliner Stories

"The Story of Webster"

"The Truth About George"

Mike and Psmith (part two of Mike)

The Ukridge stories

Love Among the Chickens

The Luck Stone

"The Matrimonial Sweepstakes"

"The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace"

"A Man of Means: The Episode of the Hired Past"

Psmith in the City

"The Crime Wave At Blandings"

The Reggie Pepper stories

"Ruth in Exile"

Right Ho, Jeeves

"Pearls Means Tears"

"Strychnine in the Soup"

Leave it to Psmith

"The Goalkeeper and the Plutocrat"

"A Man of Means: The Episode of the Live Weekly"

"A Pal Like You" from Oh, Boy!

Reference works consulted

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

Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Paul Kent, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website

Also mentioned

Saki, "Mrs Packletide's Tiger"

George Ade

Herbert W. Westbrook

William Townend

Samuel Johnson ("A man who is tired of London...")

Alfred Harmsworth

Simpson's in the Strand

Philip Peveril Wodehouse

Georgette Heyer

J M Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)

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