P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Old School Chum, short story read by Nick Martin 

Thank you very much. There has been a lull in recording but eventually hope to get back to it.

@@Trickynickymarts Your work is top tier!!!!!!!!!!! The absolute best!!!!! And I love the added mistakes at the end! The dog barks, the word flubs, etc!

I don't like the other versions where they have several actors, especially when they also add distracting sounds of cups rattling etc. One reader is best.

PMG Pike Must Go. Study her psychology Jeeves 😂😂😂

PMG Pike Must Go. Study her psychology Jeeves 😂😂😂

You are very kind, thank you - and rattling through these stories at quite a pace!

Yes, gentle but brutal!

I think you were - so long ago now! Thank you.

❤😂wonderful! n0w I know why I never did like pike!

Well I am glad you enjoy them - and aren't the best things in life free? Ha!

That's great, thank you! More to come when time permits.

He is a jolly wonderful chap! Thanks

Ten minutes in, during the narrative at the dinner table I laughed so heartily my cat got worried.

Thanks, pleased you enjoy them

Thank you.

This yank too! Howdy fr TN neighbor Howard. 👋🙂

Well, I am honored of course at your kind thoughts but I would prefer to stick with the short stories for the moment. Thank you though.

Wodehouse stories are simply dripping with political messages, from class struggles to sexism, to imperial superciliousness, and economic wealth gaps, not to mention war in all its forms, especially civil war fueled by poverty and hunger. You really need to learn to comprehend what you are reading, old chap.

@@Silly.Old.Sisyphus I disagree, PG Wodehouse wrote comedy using eccentric characters and was not subversive. Feminists will hate his books as they correctly portray female characteristics. Wodehouse was no more mocking the upper class than Dad's Army mocked the working class. Gilbert & Sullivan were a bit more subversive. The English love to laugh at themselves in humour but not malice. Wodehouse had working class men fighting for no reason, but it was not 'a message' either. I get the impression Wodehouse liked the upper class generally, and felt affection for them more than Gilbert & sullivan who mocked corrruption. The upper class in Wodehouse were not corrupt. PS interesting fact Clive James (corporal Jones) was anti-war (as I am). I am sure the Upper Class enjoyed PG Wodehouse and Gilbert & Sullivan and Dad's Army as much as the mid class and those in the working class who like literature. I found no war messages (which book are they in?), and he mocked commies and brown shirts in Jeeves stories. Dickens had far more messages about corruption & injustice, especially in the legal system I do not dismiss your view entirely, eg Jeeves is the clever one and Bertie is not, but Bertie is likeable and not arrogant or cruel.

ha ha haha after 91 years still make people laugh

Yes carrots must have had a bad press back then! Thanks.

Ahhh not again! Thanks!

Hi and thank you for all your comments on here. Thank you too for the thought of some sort of payment but really if you enjoy them, that's enough for me. I enjoy the activity of putting them together so it works out ok! Cheers Nick

My French friends pronounce it 'Ahn-wee'.

Great thanks. The next ones will actually be from the Strand as I think I have now read all the ones from the collected short stories in book form.

@@Trickynickymarts Yes, l thought you must have got through them all. I look forward to the Strand stories. Thank you.

I might be dreaming, but 70 + years ago I remember it being called one and sixpence or a shilling and sixpence ! , if I was very lucky , I might have been given 2 Bob for my birthday. 🎂( 2 shillings ) ❤️

50+ years ago I remember "one and six". A tanner was sixpence. A bob a shilling. A ten bob note was a brown note a bit smaller than a pound and bought you five pints of bitter.

From Wodehouse's 'Ukridge, Teddy Weeks & The Tomato' (Stand Magazine, June 1923) " Barolini’s was a favourite resort of our little group of earnest strugglers in the days when the philanthropic restaurateurs of Soho used to supply four courses and coffee for a shilling and sixpence; and there were present that night, besides Ukridge and myself, the following men-about-town..."

I strongly suspect Wodehouse's "shilling and sixpence" in this story and the Ukridge story quoted by Richard Martin was simply a case of PGW providing a translation for the benefit of his American readers who would quite likely have been baffled by the term "one and six."

@@BloobleBonker Cor blimey, now those were the days , 🍻Cheers , Geoff ❤️

Another triumph Nick I laughed my head off! 🙏🏻

Oh dear, that sounds serious!

a bit harsh

@@DennisGeorge-cn3zu If it was someone reading aloud to a few friends I wouldn't say anything. But a public performance is different. It's easy to look up how to pronounce a word.

You sad, sad inbecile!

@@dorothywillis1please. They read for free

@@DennisGeorge-cn3zu the harshness of ignorance that upper-class English twits speak French with English accents, beautifully satirised by the narrator.

Cheers!