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Jeeves - Live!

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Jeeves Live

Martin Jarvis, live on stage, as PG Wodehouse's Jeeves, Wooster and the rest of the cast.

One-man performances recorded live on stage in which Martin Jarvis becomes Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and an array of other PG Wodehouse characters

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Jeeves - Live!: The Great Sermon Handicap

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Martin Jarvis performs the second of two comic classics live at the Orange Tree Theatre.

Martin Jarvis performs the second of two comic classics - solo at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. A packed house rocks with laughter. It’s Jeeves as stand-up!

Award-winning Martin Jarvis performs the second of two PG Wodehouse comic classics, live on-stage. Jeeves as ‘stand-up’! 

This story is a favourite story among the many Wodehouse aficionados. At Twing Hall there's a scheme afoot among the young guests to run a handicap on the length of the sermons preached by the vicars of the dozen hamlets within a six mile radius. Bertie is persuaded by his nephews to fund their bets as well as his own. The odds-on favorite is old Heppenstall, who has inadvertently distorted the odds by losing half his notes on the previous Sunday and consequently preached a falsely abbreviated sermon. His full sermon is guaranteed to last an hour. The odds fluctuate. It's a wild race, culminating in a loss for Bertie. But a win for the inimitable Jeeves.

A packed house at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey rocks with laughter as Martin Jarvis plays Jeeves, Bertie and everybody else.

Director: Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4

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