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Martin Jarvis's 2010 Cheltenham Festival performance of Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest.

In a one-man tour de force Martin Jarvis performs the PG Wodehouse story before a packed audience at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival.

Martin Jarvis performs 'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest', the second of two of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated 'New York' stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet Jeeves. It was recorded in front of a live audience - a packed house at the Everyman Theatre - as a highlight of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival of Literature. 

In this one-man tour de force, as well as the characters of Jeeves and Wooster, Jarvis also portrays chinless wonder Lord Pershore and his lordship's formidable mother Lady Malvern. As her ladyship and her son arrive in New York expecting hospitality from Bertie (and therefore Jeeves) the situation becomes electric.

After Lord Pershore sets about to misbehave his way around the night clubs of Manhattan it is left to Jeeves to seek a solution. Wodehouse wrote these sparkling stories in 1925 during the period when he was living in Manhattan and enjoying great success as a lyric writer for American musicals. The tales provide a brilliantly humorous perspective for Jeeves and Bertie Wooster on how to deal with eccentric Americans, plus how to cope with the Brits abroad. 


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One-man performances by Martin Jarvis from the Cheltenham Literature Festival

One-man performances recorded at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in which Martin Jarvis becomes Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and an array of other PG Wodehouse characters

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