P.G. Wodehouse - The Mating Season (1949) Audiobook. Complete & Unabridged.

[@blue24563]

Cecil is so good that I can’t help but read J&W in his voice when I’m reading to myself 😂

[@sharonbakley8922]

😂

[@debbiewilck3076]

This might be Cecil's most expressive narration yet. Makes me tired to think of all that work, but we all sure appreciate it, don't we?

[@nannettebartlett-yz2rs]

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[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

We do. He is (was sadly) an absolute master at J&W, giving a one man multi character depth of performance, entirely in tune with the nuances of the genius prose, you can seriously imagine him putting in a massive shift of preparation to perfect each character, and there are so many and all different! These are such accomplished standard setting performances. A real treat an indulgent treat of amazing quality and money's worth!

[@Alpine_Joe]

I feel I must have listened to nearly all the J&W audiobooks on KZbin and I must say, as a reader, Jonathan Cecil stands alone !

[@suzangroves959]

I so agree Johnathan Cecil all the way everyone else seems rushed and over emphasises things but Johnathan takes us with him to the delightful Wodehouse world, getting me through lockdown, I just love his calming voice, than you Johnathan x

[@tracyhess-walter7935]

I agree !!

[@MarkKislich]

Jonathan Cecil is the best. Followed closely by Martin Jarvis

[@sidraa.2040]

@@MarkKislich I actually had to stop listening to Uneasy Money because the narrator was ruining the story for me. Cecil and yes, Jarvis as a a close second are awesome 🖤

[@Stormlucy111]

100% he does a Bertie so true to form....and Jeeves...oh my..what a joy!

[@philnick1]

The best narrator of Jeeves and Wooster there is

[@dianejablonski1092]

Cecil, is my favorite! He’s flawless with Jeeves and Wodehouse! Thank you so much!

[@mwatts-riley2688]

No no Hugh Larwell. He played Wooster in the tv 📺 show and Dr House. Amazing range. 👨 He is the epitome WOOSTER. M. Illinois

[@jennieclaire7781]

You're thinking of Hugh Laurie. He's my favourite too.

[@DC-cw8mp]

The telling of the joke to the aunts and then later to the nephew - hard to find a writer who can be funnier than that.

[@joaniediamond8714]

Absolutely brilliant.. listened innumerable times... always perfect...

[@philnick1]

Amazing!!! The quintessential Jeeves and Wooster!!!!!

[@ianalexander4291]

0:13 Chapter 1 10:38 Chapter 2 26:58 Chapter 3 46:06 Chapter 4 1:01:55 Chapter 5 1:18:35 Chapter 6 1:41:52 Chapter 7 1:54:09 Chapter 8 2:09:01 Chapter 9 2:27:57 Chapter 10 2:45:07 Chapter 11 2:55:04 Chapter 12 3:07:32 Chapter 13 3:19:40 Chapter 14 3:31:31 Chapter 15 3:45:38 Chapter 16 3:59:48 Chapter 17 4:13:45 Chapter 18 4:25:01 Chapter 19 4:32:56 Chapter 20 4:43:33 Chapter 21 5:00:48 Chapter 22 5:25:40 Chapter 23 5:38:07 Chapter 24 6:00:17 Chapter 25 6:16:57 Chapter 26 6:46:04 Chapter 27

[@kateking3953]

The encounter of Sir R Glossop with the menagerie and Brinkley is priceless! I've read it and heard it so many times, and makes me laugh out loud every time.

[@cynthiarowley719]

This is a great gift, right on time 🏆

[@marisadallavalle393]

Third listen, with as much pleasure as the first time. 💕

[@yvo4497]

That Pat and Mike sketch had me in tears. 😂

[@robinsutcliffe_video_art]

It's SO good : )

[@debbiewilck3076]

I was picturing Martin Clunes as Catmeat and the actor who plays Gussie in the British tv series.....I wonder if that is in any of the episodes?

[@44yvo]

5:12

[@JuliaKasdorfMusic]

😂😂😂!!

[@janetsmith8566]

Me too

[@anand_pg]

Great reading!

[@acaciajoellesamuel8548]

This one is my fave of them all💘

[@gargichakravorty9128]

Jonathan Cecil sounds just like the BBC wooster actor absolutely

[@heenanyou]

Do you mean Hugh Laurie? I agree, the voices are very similar.

[@Dijahtal_Arts_Not_Digital_Arts]

Which one? Ian Carmichael

[@Dijahtal_Arts_Not_Digital_Arts]

or Hugh Laurie

[@gargichakravorty9128]

High Laurie.....

[@jeanmesseih3963]

@@gargichakravorty9128 I love Hugh Laurie too

[@MrAhuapai]

Cecil as the narrator with Richard Briars and Michael Hordern as the voices of Bertie and Jeeves would be the gold standard.

[@tablighibayans]

I can only listen to the J & W series read by j. Cecil. I can't listen to anyone else except maybe m.jarvis (if I cant find a j.c reading). I can't get into the 'blandings' due to the readers. After many attempts , I had to give up. Maybe if j.c had read them, I would have had more luck.

[@tracyhess-walter7935]

I totally agree with what you are saying!

[@tablighibayans]

@@tracyhess-walter7935 Since writing my comment, I came across this one , and greatly enjoyed it; kzbin.info/www/bejne/ip20d5iun6iAeNU

[@tracyhess-walter7935]

@@tablighibayans thanks a lot!

[@heenanyou]

When I hear Cecil I am sure I am listening to Hugh Laurie. Very similar voices.

[@tablighibayans]

@@heenanyou yes, absolutely.

[@erickanyc8907]

Thank you Mr. Rivero! 👏😄

[@stephenridley1153]

Written by a genius. Performed by a genius.

[@audiogasmicxo]

hilarious! loved it great narrator! 😁💕

[@joaniediamond8714]

Just delightful...every time

[@andrewkendall7814]

This made me curious enough to look up Artie Shaw's bio :-D

[@gobboilino6285]

Wodehouse house and Cecil sharpening the wonderful Britsh language like a samurai sord

[@stewartlancaster6155]

English language, not British

[@mwatts-riley2688]

Miss R Might you upload any more Jeeves? Please. I am unable to read any longer due to vision problems. Please.?? Thank you for these gifts. M. Illinois.

[@mwatts-riley2688]

Oh please. Might you consider posting any 💡 Rumpole, the old Bailey? Delightful. 📻 Thank you for the time it takes to get these posted. Thank you M. Elgin Illinois. 🇺🇸

[@stewartlancaster6155]

are you drunk again ?

Thanks a zillion..

[@baysideharpy8350]

Did the incomparable Jonathan Cecil ever read The Code Of The Woosters? 3:58

[@BeaApolonie]

Ch1 0:13 ..he was low spirited. Ch2 10:35 ..what tomorrow was to bring forth. Ch3 26:56 ..

[@wendyberentsen173]

Try Nigel Lambert's Blandings readings. Superb.

[@gda295]

after much self sacrifice i can contradict jeeves' confidence in the temporary effects of blackjacks...they are frequently fatal [ maybe why in the tv series he uses a stick instead] steffi byng ? reprises the role of corky in the tv with fry/laurie and the tv has B W doing a [ futile] runner from the house in Wimbledon for dramatic effect mainly

[@user-tv9ji7rx3u]

24:57 46:15 1:28:10 2:03:24 3:27:39 3:58:27 5:00:00 6:00:18

[@r4b32t11]

What a GEM… 🙏🏼🍷🍷

[@shaughnfourie304]

WONDERFUL PG WODEHOUSE FROM A SANER TIME

[@melvynmorley-bf7hs]

He, JC is tops. However, I am also a great fan of Martin Jarvis, who has also read extracts from that immortal fat, sly and lazy schoolboy- The Owl of the Remove: Billy Bunter.

[@michealnotini]

It is full of adverts so not unabridged

[@iainmrodgers9991]

Ch 8 - 1:54:09 Ch 22 - 5:00:50

[@justme-hh4vp]

Seems like it ended at the best bit!

[@anthealogan777]

Haddock’s headache hokies!

[@midgejohnson7793]

Reader must be Jonathon Cecil

[@mwatts-riley2688]

This is the 2nd not the 4th? Wondering. ?? M. 🇺🇸 Illinois

[@Charmagh110]

2:45:00

[@judeirwin2222]

Jonathan Cecil is such an excellent voice artist that it is jarring when he mispronounces a fairly common word. In this case, when Bertie encounters Esmond on the road and they discuss the supposed Bertie Wooster's character (Gussie Finknottle playing the part of Bertie), Esmond observes that he supposes the false Bertie was "the pariah of his school". The word is pronounce puh-RYE-uh, but Cecil mangles it as "Puh-REE-uh" Odd! Not an obscure word, after all. Good voice direction would have caught this small but glaring error, but voice direction is, as usual, conspicuous by its absence from this series.

[@TheRetro60s]

.....and Aunt Agatha`s Scottie was called MacIntosh with the accent on the first syllable and not the second. Even an Englishman should know this.

[@DuncanPenny-v7q]

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[@tinamartinart5119]

Love Jonathan Cecil reading the Jeeves stories. Sadly this one spoilt as a story to go to sleep to by the adverts

[@DefoeBob-p6r]

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[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

👏👏🇬🇧

[@rosiebeardshaw658]

DDS? Do you know if he is back on? Thanks

[@heenanyou]

Cat's Meat?

[@BoojumFed]

Stage name. Kind of a feline version of "Dogfood". ;^)

[@heenanyou]

@@BoojumFed What a genius this man was. Perfection.

[@jhammond64]

Claude Cattermole "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright

[@Tinker1950]

À complété waste of time listening to this as a bedtime pastime - adverts every three or four mins.

[@jeanmesseih3963]

Damn. I was hoping to avoid them - especially as falling asleep to a story I’ve heard several times is what I was looking for. Thanks for the heads up

[@michealnotini]

It is not unabridged it is full of adverts

[@gobboilino6285]

Unlike me

[@beverleyarnold7204]

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[@margaretbell96]

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[@jordanbland7366]

I have always liked these stories until he said "that very white of u"! So stupid of me to forget this European thought!

[@marcopolo9146]

Yes, I suppose you must be.

[@bluestripes6037]

I just heard it, I thought it was like "very white knight" but tbh it was written a longish time ago, so I make allowances

[@jeffreyswanson2937]

Is is like a white knight. Not race.

[@Tony-hx2fj]

@@jeffreyswanson2937 probably not, it was a different world, better in many ways but there were the negatives too.

[@BoojumFed]

@@Tony-hx2fj Little of column A, little of column B. The "...pure white..." of Corky's soul is another example of the same reference to generalized 'goodness' (as opposed to black-hearted villains and the like); the assumption that such variances in character occurs within the Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestant class to the exclusion of other social, economic, or racial circles would, at the time, go without saying. Just look at all the Irish and Scottish stereotypes getting bandied about and you'll soon notice that all physical genealogies outside of basic WASPness are looked on as all equivalently subordinate. As you say; a very different world, not without it's own flavours of flaws.

[@Charmagh110]

3:49:00

[@ahaoho5228]

4:39:15

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[@BobSmith-fx9sz]

5:38:00

[@reubencohen8838]

5:12:50