Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves

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PG Wodehouse

Comedy: Sitcoms

The escapades of PG Wodehouse's most famous creations, Jeeves and Wooster

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Joanna Lumley

James Callis

Martin Jarvis

Adam Godley

Michael York

Ian Ogilvy

Julian Sands

Moira Quirk

Elizabeth Knowelden

Matthew Wolf

Darren Richardson

Tara Lynne Barr

Kenneth Danziger

Archie Scottney

Rosalind Ayres

PG Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves: 2. Jeeves Intervenes

Jeeves Live

2. Jeeves Intervenes

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

BBC Radio 4 Extra - PG Wodehouse, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, 2. Jeeves Intervenes

Comic mastery starring Joanna Lumley, Martin Jarvis, Ian Ogilvy and Michael York.

Blackmail is afoot, petty larceny and fisticuffs by the rhododendrons. Gussie elopes, but with whom? Starring Joanna Lumley.

Local curate Rev 'Stinker' Pinker is in love with Sir Watkyn Bassett's niece, Stiffy Byng.  They can't get married until Pinker gets a vicarage of his own. 

Sir Watkyn holds one in his gift, but he's not keen on Stinker. Control-freak Stiffy orders Bertie to help.

Bad idea.

Blackmail, petty larceny, elopement and knock-out blows ensue. Can Jeeves untangle these threads and keep the young master out of jail? Will bibulous Major Plank or cheery Aunt Dahlia hinder things?

Of course, it's Jeeves who engineers a surprising conclusion.

Martin Jarvis reprises his award-winning Broadway characterisation as Jeeves.

Also starring Joanna Lumley, Ian Ogilvy and Michael York.

Aunt Dahlia...Joanna Lumley 
Bertie Wooster...James Callis
Jeeves...Martin Jarvis
Roderick Spode...Adam Godley
Major Plank...Michael York 
Sir Watkyn Bassett...Ian Ogilvy
Rev Harold Pinker...Julian Sands 
Stiffy Byng...Moira Quirk
Madeline Bassett...Elizabeth Knowelden
Gussie Fink-Nottle...Matthew Wolf
P.C. Oates...Darren Richardson
Emerald Stoker...Tara Lynne Barr
Cyril/Butterfield...Kenneth Danziger

Dramatised by Archie Scottney

Sound Design: Mark Holden

Director: Rosalind Ayres

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2018.

PG Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

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Martin Jarvis stars as Jeeves in PG Wodehouse's comic novel. With Joanna Lumley.

Martin Jarvis stars as Jeeves in PG Wodehouse's comic novel. With Joanna Lumley. Dramatised by Archie Scottney.

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