PG Wodehouse

Wodehouse Prize: Nina Stibbe wins

The third and final entry in a semi-autobiographical trilogy has netted an author an annual award for the funniest book. Nina Stibbe's Reasons To Be Cheerful clinched the 2019 Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

Wodehouse Prize: Pig named after Bridget Jones's Baby

A pig is to be named Bridget Jones's Baby after the novel won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild win Wodehouse Prize

Authors Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild have jointly won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The award is given annually to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse.

Radio Times review

In honour of guest Victoria Coren Mitchell, QI goes off-grid and includes an Only Connect round. The most shocking thing to emerge from this dramatic deviation from the norm is that Alan Davies has never managed to sit through an entire episode of the BBC Two brainiac quiz.

It will surprise no one to learn that Jack Whitehall takes over the proceedings completely for his usual Whitehall farce, though you can't dislike him for it. He's funny, particularly when discussing his dad's disapproval of his son's bromance with host Stephen Fry.

Elsewhere, we learn the connection between PG Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes - and did you know that a quarter of the people who claim to have read 1984 are lying?

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense review

This clever PG Wodehouse tribute reproduces the manners of the Edwardian English upper classes, while cunningly sending them up.

Who said it? PG Wodehouse's Wooster or Peep Show's Jez?

As Robert Webb prepares to take over in the West End comedy Perfect Nonsense, based on the works of PG Wodehouse, can you guess which of these lines belong to Bertie Wooster and which were spoken by Peep Show's Jeremy?

Radio Times review

The series loosely based on PG Wodehouse stories rolls to a close with yet another bit of farcical matchmaking nonsense sprinkled with daft names that Lord Emsworth can turn into malapropisms. He gives us a grand tour of American attractions while trying to recall the name of Niagara Donaldson in this episode.

There's also an oversized pumpkin called Desdemona being cosseted for Harvest Festival and a pipe-smoking, suit-wearing, monosyllabic young woman hanging around the castle, although such details are really irrelevant.

You either enjoy the undemanding pantomime silliness of it all or you don't. And between three and four million people obviously do. Capital, as Lord Emsworth would say.

I was rather lukewarm towards the first series of Blandings, based on the books by PG Wodehouse. However, series two got off to a cracking start thanks, in no small part, to the contribution of Harry Enfield. Enfield, a man not known to underplay at the best of times, left no scenery unchewed as the apoplectically lunatic Duke of Dunstable, the most obnoxious man in the country.

Radio Times review

The first series of these adaptations of PG Wodehouse stories came in for a good kicking from some quarters, which seemed out of proportion considering they were enjoyable bits of candy floss and hardly Broadchurch. But viewers liked them, so here's a second helping, with Timothy Spall once again starring as pin-brained, pig-obsessed toff Lord Emsworth and Jennifer Saunders as his battleaxe of a sister, Connie.

Tim Vine, much missed after his departure from Not Going Out, takes over from Mark Williams as Beach, the clever butler. Harry Enfield guests in the first episode as the claret-nosed Duke of Dunstable, an appalling old buffer with an inexplicable antipathy towards whistling Scotsmen.

How posh are the cast of Blandings?

Meet Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Tim Vine and Celia Imrie, the cast of BBC1's PG Wodehouse comedy Blandings.