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Ashe and Joan's battle to secure the scarab is becoming intense. Baxter is in hot pursuit.

Ashe and Joan's battle to secure the precious scarab is becoming intense. Baxter is in hot pursuit, and Lord Emsworth is on alert for midnight marauders. With Ian Ogilvy.

Second of a two-part dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 comic novel. 

The rivalry between Ashe and Joan to secure the precious scarab is becoming intense. The obsessive Baxter is in hot pursuit and Lord Emsworth keeps a shotgun beside him in case of midnight marauders.

Ashe ...... Ioan Gruffudd               
Joan ...... Helen McCrory  
Baxter ...... Jared Harris
Earl of Emsworth ...... Martin Jarvis  
J Preston Peters ...... Hector Elizondo         
The Hon Freddie ...... Matthew Wolf  
George Emerson ...... James Frain
Aline Peters ...... Andrea Bowen   
Beach ...... Morgan Sheppard
Mr Judson ...... Darren Richardson   
Colonel Mant ...... Kenneth Danziger 
Wodehouse ...... Ian Ogilvy  

Directed by Martin Jarvis.

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Dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 comic tale, the first of his Blandings novels

Dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 comic tale, the first in his series of Blandings novels

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