John Gielgud in Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse (1981)

Radio drama starring John Gielgud, Michael Hordern, Joan Greenwood, Simon Ward.
An episode from the BBC radio anthology series 'Saturday Night Theatre'.
Starring
Sir John Gielgud
Michael Hordern
Joan Greenwood
Simon Ward
Broadcast on 10 March 1981.

[@Sunny25611]

His unforgettable stories through my Grandmother’s voice on crisp autumn nights before bedtime.. ❤️

[@danacoleman4007]

that sounds so nice!

[@annwanamaker5210]

My first time w P G Wodehouse & I love it Thank You Sir John Gielgud

[@DenisePoole-Closet-Crafts]

Thank you for taking the time to upload these wonderful radio dramas. 😀

[@tasha6151]

Wonderfully read -- and performed!

[@mwatts-riley2688]

Your playlist is thd richest find since the finding of the titanic 40y ago! THANK YOU SO VERY DEEPLY! 👌 M . IL. USA

[@annelawton6783]

I laughed so much I cried. PSmith brilliant story brilliant cast in this.

[@CORONA-lk4ct]

Great job , as all the actors are excellent ,sound effects n direction is wonderful, ♥️👍♥️

[@Rardsley]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this. This play was my introduction to Wodehouse and Psmith has remained a firm favourite. Of all the radio productions of Wodehouse dramatisations, this one remains THE best. My parents had recorded it and we listened to it over and over again... alas now all copies are lost. So, THANKS AGAIN!

[@bunty6268]

Ooh how Wonderful your listening pleasures seem... MANY Thanks for sharing Good Sir xo

[@JoanKentBible]

Definitely a keeper!!!!

[@yasminkeyani7948]

Love the book. Love this radio version! Thanks!

[@Vintagevanessa99]

Fabulous stories and a wonderful timeless cast thankyou

[@dmx5439]

Brilliant....❤

[@MsDormy]

I had a crush on Simon Ward I’m his ‘shouldn’t happen to a vet’ days! You really didn’t need to know that... just delighted to find this in my suggested. Makes a change to ww3. 👍

[@clarajones7646]

Great book... I read this years ago and its just as good this time around,, Thank you.........Thank you...........

[@rogerevans8081]

clara jones That's the thing. Repeated readings do nothing to diminish the delight produced by Wodehouse's prose.

[@JanetCaterina]

Joan Greenwood Love this woman, her voice speaks of a demeanour, the demeanour of the aristocracy

[@cousinsister69]

Thank you RS. Delightful listening. I enjoyed this in play version very much. Top actors. We are spoiled. Hi from Oz! 👇💜🙃

[@joanmelville8310]

Beautiful selection .Thank you for postingx

[@girllovesmusic]

I never thought I could enjoy Wodehouse more than when Jonathon Cecil reads them but it seems I was wrong. This is fantastic!

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[@peterfreeman6677]

Author: P.G. Wodehouse Dramatised by: Michael Bakewell Director: Peter King "Blandings stands as ever, bathed in fragrant and gentle summer. Love shimmers, skulduggery lurks. Lord Emsworth desperately attempts to escape the efficient Baxter and the place seems rife with poets doing poems. Then, of course, someone steals that necklace..." The Author: John Gielgud Lord Emsworth: Michael Hordern Lady Constance: Joan Greenwood Psmith: Simon Ward Baxter: Christopher Godwin Freddie: David Troughton Joe Keeble: Bryan Pringle Beach: Ellis Dale Eve: Caroline Langrishe Miss Peavey: Zoe Wanamaker Cootes: Stuart Milligan McTodd: Peter Marinker Susan: Alex Marshall Briggs: Alan Dudley Newspaper employee: Haydn Wood Flowered waistcoat: Michael Spice Snuff-coloured suit: George Parsons Waiter: Ronald Herdman Young lady: Patience Tomlinson Young man: Spencer Banks

[@esterbengoa6077]

Thank you very much for this. I watched it on TV ages ago and I thought it was superb.

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[@pearl3761]

A joyful experience. Thank you!

[@bassmentality]

My evenings sitting with my lovely mum. So many of them listening to BBC Dramas. Thank you for uploading it!

[@bunty6268]

How lovely that sounds... I'm so happy for you to have a memory that I long to have....

[@filmnoir50]

Thank you so much!

[@linenmccartney2374]

Joan Goodwood is the perfect combination of menace and charm.

[@spensert4933]

The silky elegance of JG is the best

[@richardburns8973]

Love Horden !!

[@opeolusawyerr8415]

Great, P. G. WODEHOUSE - Leave it to PSMITH

[@ramblerandy2397]

The late Simon Ward is perfect here as Psmith. And at the time, like Psmith, I fell in love with Miss Halliday [Caroline Langrishe]. 🧐

[@tashareally3959]

Listenlicious

[@spensert4933]

What a combo

[@mjrussell414]

Well, that was excellent, but then I’ve been partial to a little Wodehouse since I was a kid and discovered Jeeves and Wooster on PBS. I think I supplied my local library at the time with most of their supply of his works.

[@JoanKentBible]

Wonderful!!!!!!!!

[@feralbluee]

Love this. . . started out a bit slow - but being Wodehouse, i stuck with it and got into this rendition. thanks much :}

[@susanwilsonroberts6044]

I was given this book at the age of 16 the book I was given had Jeeves and Bertie and Mullener and then the full book of Smith and frankly I've been reading it ever since I started listening to it and I was laughing from the minute I started I guess you have to have the British sense of humour. In fact my 1st and present husband both forbade me read it at bedtime because I couldn't stop laughing

[@rogerevans8081]

Susan Wilson Roberts One does tire of British people congratulating themselves on a supposed "British sense of humour" beyond the ken of any lesser mortals- as though Wodehouse's great popularity depended on British readers.

[@rosemariemann1719]

@@rogerevans8081 It's just that our " British" sense of humour does differ quite often from other countries . It has several facets, e.g.,irony, understatement, farce, plays on words.... but can be quite subtle at times...☺️ By the way, I've recently been watching ( twice, because it was so well done,IMHO), Noel Coward's comedy, " Present Laughter", with the excellent Donald Sinden, and other very competent actors. If you choose to watch it, enjoy the quirky/"creepy" "Mr. Maul", played by a young Julian Fellowes . This play is ( IMHO) a good example of "British sense of humour". And there are many others... ** Enjoy ! ** 🇬🇧😊💕🌎☺️🇬🇧.

[@rogerevans8081]

@@rosemariemann1719 Odd that you choose to reply to my comment about British people constantly congratulating themselves on their superior sense of humor by doing that very thing. Self-awareness is clearly not growing on trees there.

[@raymondlawson8914]

Amazing

[@catherinefranks786]

KZbin I love you.. The best thing ever. Something for every mood. Come out and take a BOW....

[@feralbluee]

Excellent - wonderful. good adaptation. and the acting was so good, especially Clarence :) and the narrator - you know the John Gielgud. good production all around. but i am glad i just listened to whole audiobook, so i knew all the background and events. thank you so much. . . Stay safe :)

[@inamorata966]

Michael Hordern was an actor of the first water. In the shadow somewhat of Olivier and Gielgud himself, MH can perform as well as either. His comedic chops, moreover, were razor sharp. As Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), MH was second only to Zero Mostel as Pseudolus. Hysterically funny.

[@robm.4512]

Just……superb!

[@RobertSeviour1]

I've listened to every one of the deaddogsmoking catalogue and am still greatly enjoying them on a second run through. Heartfelt thanks for making these wonderful pieces available. Is anyone writing to this standard these days? Suggestions welcomed

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Douglas Adams was. He died a decade ago or so.

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[@electrictofumuffins6384]

The sound is very listenable.

[@BelatedCommiseration]

Thought Freddie Threepwood sounded familiar! It was David Troughton! He was great, as indeed was Simon Ward as Psmith! :) Its a shame to typecast, but I always think of Trughton as playing bewildered upper/middle class types (which he does very well) and compartively recently I saw him on New Tricks being an East London gangster...and he was really good there! One of those talents I wish I saw more of on screen, though I daresay he is mostly on stage. Only really ever read the Jeeves books and some of Blandings...only recently started paying attention to Psmith when I got a recently got a literary biography of P.G Wodehouse...and I definitely think I will have to start paying more attention to him! I read that the meticulous Wodehouse very rarely had any character 'spring' to him in the way some novelists do...he would work them out very thoroughly...the one exception being Psmith who just apparently popped in there and started dictating terms! I can certainly see that from how he is played here!

[@Concetta20]

Psmith also reminds me of his Lord Ickenham character.

[@suburbanbanshee]

I came across Psmith's adult books first of all, and was rather startled (but pleased) to find out that he and Mike had first existed as children at school. So I read Psmith's books somewhat back to front.

[@rosemariemann1719]

Psmith : The " P" is silent, as in "Ptarmigan"." Psychic", and "Swimming"... 🇬🇧😊💕🐦😊🇬🇧...

[@lsdmadman]

thanky...good schtuff

[@dantean]

Like listening to the Disciples speaking on God's behalf.

[@rozitasheilarahim8016]

Nothing great about the story, but brilliant narrator. Love her voice. Thank you for uploading this audiobook.

[@imsathyasekar]

I loved the dramatization of one of my all time favorite books. Who played Eve Halliday in this? She wasn't called out at the end

[@michaelprobert4014]

Her name is credited but the character is just called Eve which makes it easy to miss. The name of the actress sounds like Caroline Langrish.

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

@@michaelprobert4014 'Langrishe'. The 'e' is silent :o) Still going strong.

[@michaelprobert4014]

@@finosuilleabhain7781 Thanks for the clarification. 🙂

[@TheKathymorrison]

Really enjoy these stories but love this one.. Wonder where the author gets these stories from???

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[@spensert4933]

Well aren't you the snake's eyebrows!

[@mattkaustickomments]

What a delightful farce! As a car guy, I must point out an anachronistic mistake however. When the dandies are talking about whether to take the Bugatti or the Ferrari to the ball… the Ferrari brand did not exist for another 25 years!! Oooops!

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[@ginawiggles918]

Why are all the items being deleted?

[@treeofparadise9619]

earls, butlers &younger sons at blandings castle not Mc old bean wot.. .

[@spensert4933]

33:15 what poets sound like

[@apoxonxyourxexes]

How do I do a time stamp

[@girllovesmusic]

Liz, you're the oyster's eye tooth. teehee

[@pearl3761]

“When it comes to the smooth stuff, old girl, you’re the oyster’s eye-tooth!”

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why no summary?

[@jennbeck9611]

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[@Charmagh110]

50:00

[@aj0nutube]

34:43

[@peterjongsma2754]

Just finished The book. Dec 2019. Wodehouse playhouse is brilliant. Watch it. Sorry but don't needthis attempt. Read the book. Or watch Wodehouse playhouse.

[@ecollen]

This is not a film KZbin.

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[@veritas6335]

Amusing, although large parts of this are un-understandable to the American ear, especially when spoken by characters with a regional accent or less than a proper upperclass accent. Gielgud is, as always, delicious, however.

[@annelawton6783]

Do you mean ‘incomprehensible’? But two of the characters were Canadian ? The accent is received pronunciation. The BBC!

[@MsHburnett]

Please get an i tech to clean up the audio. Thx

[@apoxonxyourxexes]

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[@raylouis9218]

The Psmith character is totally miscast. Tone is miles off. Psmith is unflappable, not irritable like this guy.

[@michaelswithenby5601]

Very England middle class not upper class as you infer.

[@antoniocasinelli7742]

+Michael Swithenby Are you referring to Wodehouse's novels in general or to the accent of the characters in this show?

[@Tsuki17]

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[@mikehobart]

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[@noelnicholls1894]

OK. I’d call that upper middle class if not the scrapings of high society. Middle class never, the middle class has to work for a living. Even if as lawyers, bank managers and such.

[@danacoleman4007]

this REALLY sucks.

[@parrmik]

In the 1920's , i suppose it was humorous to be dictated to by a controlling female . In the 2020's , reality makes the joke a little less shiny.

[@bunty6268]

Oh do shut up

[@parrmik]

@@bunty6268 don't dictate to me !

[@dmann1115]

As if! Men still get paid way more than women for the same work, men still own most of the property in the world, and dominate just about every institution, every government. Take a seat.

[@nadtoboivstautkakgory]

No

[@cavramau]

@@parrmik don't dictate to others if you don't want to be dictated to.